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=First SEMA Show Mustangs revealed + More from AutoWeek =
It begins: First SEMA Show Mustangs revealed by Ford
I like it, do you ? Competition is good for the consumer's & keep's GM & other auto companies working harder to compete with better, faster products 4-Sure! OCTOBER 22, 2014 http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=zCEw5MufThis Galpin Auto Sports custom 2015 Mustang will celebrate 50 years of the pony car.PHOTO BY FORD MORE THAN A DOZEN MODIFIED 2015 MUSTANGS ARE COMING TO LAS VEGAS NEXT MONTH Ford is no stranger to the annual SEMA Show in Las Vegas and has used the event to unveil a wide range of concept cars of varying degrees of size and wildness -- everything from the smallest hatches to commercial vehicles tricked out with special features. 2014 promises to be no different, except for the fact that the star of Ford's lineup will undoubtedly be the all-new2015 Ford Mustang. In fact, Ford will show over a dozen 2015 Mustangs tuned in collaboration with aftermarket customizers and tuners, so Mustang fans will be sure to get their fix once the covers come off the cars. The SEMA Show is still a few weeks away, but Ford has revealed details about a couple of the Mustangs that will be shown in its 20,000-square-foot booth at Las Vegas Convention Center. Ford has partnered up with Roush, Steeda, Galpin Auto Sports, Petty’s Garage, MRT and a number of other performance companies for the show. The suprise? Even though there will be plenty of 5.0-liter Mustangs on display, the real canvas for customizers will be the 2.3-liter EcoBoost version of the pony car. The Mustang tuned by Galpin Auto Sports -- the car in the photo above -- will celebrate the Mustang's 50th anniversary with a black and gold motif, in addition to restyled front and rear fascias. Ford says that Galpin Auto Sports' Mustang will also feature reworked interior trim and will wear metallic gold-flecked black paint along with gold badges. Don't worry, they didn't forget about performance upgrades: A gold powder-coated Whipple supercharger is said to give the car a 725-hp output. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=4dOhMKjkCAR NEWS Vortech previews 2015 Ford Mustang before SEMA show Supercharger manufacturer Vortech is no stranger to SEMA, and a few weeks before crowds fill the exhibition halls at the Las Vegas Convention Center, the company has released a preview of its show ... http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=2upWS9NrAnother 2015 Mustang that will be present at the SEMA Show will be this one, customized by Petty's Garage.PHOTO BY FORD Another custom Mustang that Ford has shared some details about is a 5.0-liter version tuned by Petty's Garage. The company says the 5.0 will have a Roush supercharger underhood, plus Richard Petty’s famous blue paint and the No. 43 graphics on the sheetmetal. That car will later be auctioned by Barrett-Jackson, with the proceeds from the sale set to benefit Victory Junction, which helps chronically ill children attend summer camp. Ford hasn't forgotten about fans of Formula DRIFT -- Vaughn Gittin Jr. will put on a show in his modified 2014 Ford Mustang RTR at the Ford Out Front motorsports and display venue during the SEMA Show. About the SEMA Show SEMA-- short for Specialty Equipment Marketing Association -- is the biggest aftermarket auto event in the world, held in Las Vegas each fall. The show fills multiple convention halls and shows off everything from high-performance OEM specials to custom wheels and graphics from local shops. Get the full rundown on what automakers and suppliers are up to at the industry's biggest trade show at our SEMA Show home page. - See more at: It begins: First SEMA Show Mustangs revealed by Ford | Autoweek |
3dCarbon unveils drawing of its SEMA Show Mustang
OCTOBER 22, 2014 http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=L4ZMRaIC3dCarbon's Air Design Boy Racer Mustang will be on the Ford stand at the SEMA Show. ALL-NEW BODY KIT MIMICS THE AUTOWEEK COVER CAR FROM 2004 At some point Wednesday, Ford is scheduled to reveal something like 15 Mustang concepts bound for the SEMA Showmade by various denizens of the automotive aftermarket. You can count on totally unverifiable horsepower, crazy unreplicatable paint schemes and more wings, flaps and flippers than the bird show at the old Busch Gardens. We got a look at a drawing of one of the Mustangs -- the 3dCarbon Air Design Mustang -- the night before the big reveal. Faithful (and/or obsessed) readers will remember 10 years ago when we had a 3dCarbon Mustang on our cover. 3dCarbon certainly remembers it. It was dubbed “Boy Racer” by the Newport Beach, Calif., company. This one was made as a sort of tribute to that one. “When it [the 2004 car] was first introduced in Autoweek magazine, the effect was crazy,” said Ford design manager Melvin Betancourt. “Now, 10 years later, they’re reinventing the iconic Mustang with ‘Boy Racer 2.’ They take their DNA, our DNA and fuse it in such a way that it looks an extension of what came out of our studio.” http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=SDup0KJQLook familiar? “When we did the original ‘Boy Racer’ car in '04 I couldn’t believe it -- we had people just hanging around the shop because we had the new Mustang,” said 3dCarbon designer Billy Longfellow. “Obviously, we had a tremendous thing with the Boy Racer. Now we have 10 years more, experience and we changed every part on the new car.” Inside, outside and under the hood, 3d and its partners went at the new pony car. The most obvious changes are outside, with the patented 3dCarbon body kit. “We pulled the car out and down to give it more of an aggressive stance,” said Longfellow. The car is lowered 1 inch with an Eibach Springs Pro Kit, while the Forgiato 22-inch Maglia–ECL Concave 3 Piece Wheels wrapped in Pirelli P-Zero Nero Tires are stopped by Wilwood brakes with cross-drilled rotors and red six-piston calipers. 3d added an extended lip in front to balance out the aerodynamics of the big rear wing. Then they added carbon-fiber aero parts around the whole car. Some are even, theoretically, functional. “I explained to them what you do to create drag,” said Betancourt. “We try to stay as close as possible to the car’s original goals. Some changes help the aerodynamics and some are designed for boy racer-looking cool that will create a little drag.” “We put fender vents on it, which is a really big thing for the muscle cars,” said Longfellow. “All the heat comes out from the engine. At the rear, we made a bigger diffuser that goes in between the two tailpipes. On the hood, we raised the two lines coming down.” http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=o1o2ShtuSEMA SHOW Ringbrothers previews 980-hp Recoil before SEMA Show Last year Wisconsin-based tuner Ringbrothers wowed crowds at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas with their version of the De Tomaso Pantera dubbed ADRNLN. The brainchild of customizers Mike and Jim Ring, the ... The complete list of 3dCarbon body parts on the Air Design Boy Racer Mustang is: complete new front bumper, side skirts, rear lower diffuser, boy racer rear wing, front fender vents, hood fins and a new front grille. Then, because they got one of, if not the first Mustangs offered to the aftermarket, way back in July, 3d had enough time to do a complete paint job, too, replicating the color scheme from the Autoweek cover car of 2004. Under the hood is a Vortech V-3 Supercharging System that Vortech says makes 640 hp and 485 lb-ft of torque using 7.5 to 8.5 psi from the V-3 Supercharger at the stock redline. Vortech released details of its own SEMA Mustang last week, claiming 1,200 hp. Inside the cabin, the upgrades continue with Roadwire two-tone leather, Sundial window tint, Sparco Racing seat-belt harnesses and audio designed by The Source A/V Design Group in Torrance, Calif., with Focal Audio. But a drawing can only do so much. “In person, it’s going to be even that much more aggressive,” said Betancourt. If you’re lucky enough to be in the aftermarket industry and attending the show, you can see it on the Ford stand in the Central Hall starting on Tuesday. Or just watch this space for coverage of the show and all its Mustang glory. About the SEMA Show SEMA-- short for Specialty Equipment Marketing Association -- is the biggest aftermarket auto event in the world, held in Las Vegas each fall. The show fills multiple convention halls and shows off everything from high-performance OEM specials to custom wheels and graphics from local shops. Get the full rundown on what automakers and suppliers are up to at the industry's biggest trade show at our SEMA Show home page. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/arti...?itok=K2f0RArlMARK VAUGHN - After working in Eu |
Sand, salt and cars: The 2014 Oilers Car Club Race of Gentlemen
October 13, 2014 http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=uUsSBKib http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=mwuOojhg http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=FFZtwDjg \ Every October the Jersey Shore hosts the coolest old-school hot-rod races on the continent Every October for the last three years, the Oilers Car Club has put on a little weekend-long hot rod race on the Jersey Shore. There’s surf rock and drinking on Friday night. You wake up Saturday morning to the thacka-thacka-thacka-braaaap of flathead V8s, four-bangers and old V-twins echoing down deserted roads on their way to the beach. This starts at around 6:45 a.m., just as the sun’s starting to come up, but no one minds --practically the only people in the ghost town that is post-season Wildwood, N.J. are the racers and spectators. At approximately 9 a.m. somebody butchers the national anthem and then the races start, rain or shine, tide permitting. There’s a board of brackets suggesting at least some notion of structure behind the competition, but it’s not really enough to be apparent to the casual bystander. From the stands, it’s an incredible free-for-all -- pairs of hot rods and vintage Harleys and Indians running side by side down a 1/8-mile strip of beach, wheels kicking up fountains of sand, straight pipes drowning out the roar of the ocean. It goes on until 6 p.m. or until the tide rolls back in, whichever comes first. Everybody comes back Sunday morning, maybe a little bleary-eyed and fuzzy-headed, to do it all again. This, basically, is the Oilers Car Club Race of Gentlemen. Its instant and growing success lies in the beautiful simplicity of the concept reinforced by attention to detail and an utter lack of lack of pretension. It helps that the event’s theme -- prewar hot-rods built with mid-1950s speed equipment and tank-shifted American motorcycles -- tends to weed out posers. Simply put, there are far cheaper ways to pretend to be cool than to build out a flathead V8. You’d be hard-pressed to find another group of guys so eager to run their cars through sand and salt water again and again and again, often until something breaks. Since the race is only 3 years old, it’s surprising how many build rides specifically for the event. Matt Picaro’s flathead-powered 1931 Model A roadster, number 667 (“One up on the Devil”) came together in the four weeks before race day from “stuff [he had] lying around.” He’s entered before with a different car. “Every time, I try to cheat. Sometimes, I get caught,” he laughs. “I build for fun, but you end up wanting to win…I end up getting kind of competitive.” To him, the Race of Gentlemen is about bringing back the simple thrills of postwar grassroots motorsport. He mentions the speed record runs in Daytona and the jalopy races that were once held in every town. “Nobody had any money; everybody built stuff with junk lying around. This is trying to re-create that -- of course, the parts are more expensive now.” It’s a little more personal to Zach Suhr, a young guy from Grantville, Penn. His four-banger 1929 Model A recreates an ancestral dirt track racer built in 1948. It’s not fancy; the primitive roll bar is a metal hoop behind the passenger compartment. “The car we copied was a piece of crap, so we built it with crap,” Suhr tells us. The result was true to its inspiration, if the black-and-white photo he had pinned to the dash of his car was anything to go by. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=745jBPMM A photo on the dashboard of Zach Suhr's roadster shows the old family car it replicates. Cool. Photo by Graham Kozak Many, but by no means all, of the Race of Gentlemen participants seem to own speed shops or garages. They’re already part of hot-rod clubs. They go to other meet-ups. Some, like Suhr, do dirt racing on oval tracks. Yet everybody implicitly knows that the Race of Gentlemen is something special. Everyone seems to understand that organizer and chief troublemaker Mel Stultz III -- a slightly nutso, bearded, barefoot ’38 Harley rider -- and his crew have created something casually, unforcedly ingenious. From the painted wood start and finish-line pylons to the canvas tents to the respectful sponsorship (Harley-Davidson, a major backer, only had classic bikes on display), the race looks and feels right without anyone having to resort to the pageantry that marks other classic car events. The soundtrack was light on The Trashmen and heavy on Motown, rockabilly and blues. We counted exactly one poodle skirt. Certainly, it doesn’t hurt that classic American brands and vintage-style work wear are currently undergoing something of a renaissance. Many of the fashions on display wouldn’t look out of place in the trendier enclaves of major cities. Take that as you will, but it did help set the scene. Then there’s the sand. Racing on sand is, in the words of white-bearded ’47 Harley Knucklehead-riding Mark Stevens, “scary as hell. Fun, though.” It also levels the playing field. What’s the point of spending a fortune on horsepower if you’re just going to spin those skinny vintage tires? The shore setting also adds to the spectacle, with the Atlantic serving as perhaps the most dramatic conceivable background for the races. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=z8MN-NLR Mark Stevens (pictured with his 1947 Harley-Davidson Knucklehead) on racing in the sand: "Scary as hell. Fun, though." Photo by Graham Kozak The crowd was healthy and, we were told, substantially larger than last year’s. It was international: There were Norwegians in attendance, as well as Brits; we talked to a Finn (he owns a ’39 Ford pickup) and failed to strike up a conversation with a Frenchman. A pair conversed in Italian near the finish line. A duo of long-haired Japanese dudes wearing Stetson hats snapped photos. Better yet, there were droves of younger people around -- and the entrants spanned a wide range of ages, too. That’s simply not something you can say about most concours events or cruise-ins. Though the Race of Gentlemen is probably one of few places you can wear brass goggles in public without looking like a total goober (at least if you’re one of the entrants), the spectators are hardly hopeless anachronauts. Listen, and you’ll hear young guys wearing vintage speed shop T-shirts excitedly discussing SpaceX, the aerospace company founded by Tesla Motor’s Elon Musk. By Sunday afternoon all the cars and bikes were covered in sand and salt spray. Out of the 90-vehicle field, we were told that about a third were knocked out by blown head gaskets or electronics fried by saltwater; safe to say, everything we saw is going to need a thorough cleaning, if not a total rebuild, over the winter. But nobody seemed mad about it. We’re not sure how many personal grudge matches were settled on the sand, and we doubt the reputation of a club or speed shop was ever at stake. There were laughs and handshakes all around before, during and after the races. Drivers seemed to know their personal limits and the limits of their machines. Cars got a little sideways now and again, but we didn’t see anyone lay down a bike and there was no contact on the strip that we know of. Since one racer summed up the event’s rules as “just don’t smoke weed or drink while driving” we’ll admit that we were caught somewhat off guard -- and impressed -- by the on-track restraint, off-track friendliness and all-around good behavior. We shouldn’t have been surprised; it isn’t billed as the Race of Hooligans. There’s a fine line between kitschy nostalgia and earnest tribute, between hokey retro-indulgence and a well-considered revival. We’re not claiming to be arbiters of taste or cool, but the Race of Gentlemen is the real deal. With their sincere enthusiasm and infectious energy, its participants aren’t bringing rodding back from the dead so much as they’re proof that it’s been alive and kicking all along. Keep spinning tires and throwing sand, you crazy bastards. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=pPZycnjP Mel Stultz III, one of the masterminds behind the Race of Gentlemen, tearing up the sand on his 1938 Harley flathead. Photo by Graham Kozak http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/arti...?itok=0CHrPTsV Graham Kozak - Graham Kozak drove a 1951 Packard 200 sedan in high school because he wanted something that would be easy to find in a parking lot. He thinks all the things they're doing with fuel injection and seatbelts these days are pretty nifty too. See more by this author» YOU MAY ALSO ENJOY http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=yefe7fmzClassic Cars The Goodwood Revival was 2014's Best Car Event http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=hefsTDFYWoodward Dream Cruise The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is the King of Woodward http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=NAwX_AVhCar Life Detroit Autorama 2014: Rodding is as hot as it ever was http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=Sso4vmufCar Life Hot, humid, superb: The 2014 Concours d'Elegance of America |
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2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost first drive
2014 http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=e1tN5NxP http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=N0G0lL5N http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=nRdR8ShX 1 of 9Our EcoBoost four had a distinct advantage on the twisty mountain and canyon roads we drove it over. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=fxbNvftI http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=81qpyOi5 http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=1tUVtPTB http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=6MHJzpAb http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=5i-bLQqq http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=gU80jGk_ http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=9Fwso7qi http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=NPTRh-0R http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gall...?itok=tqTFuTIi The four-cylinder Mustang finally comes into its own thanks to turbocharging and direct injection Yesterday we told you about driving the new 2015 Ford Mustang GT with its mighty 5.0-liter V8. That was fun. Right after we parked the V8, we got into the four-cylinder version of the new Ford Mustang and took it out, too. The result? Two fun pony cars in one sleek new body (three if you count the V6, which we didn’t drive). Our EcoBoost four had a distinct advantage on the twisty mountain and canyon roads over which we drove it. In addition to it being 100 pounds lighter over the nose because of the missing four cylinders, the EcoBoost Mustang we drove came with the optional Performance Package, loaded with, among other things, body stiffening componentry. In short, get the V8-powered Mustang GT if your goal is stoplight drag racing dominance; get the EcoBoost four if you want to autocross or canyon carve. But in either case, get the Performance Pack -- it’s worth its weight in reinforced parts. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=lMIF5fb1Car Reviews 2015 Ford Mustang GT first drive Not since the Corvette Stingray has an American muscle car stirred as much anticipation as the 2015 Ford Mustang. Ford's newest pony has more horsepower, greater refinement and a first-ever ... Now, let’s look at the 2.3-liter EcoBoost four. (Yes, we know, the Mustang had a four-banger way back in the 1970s and '80s. It was even a 2.3 liter. Forget about that engine.) This one is very sophisticated, not just by those ancient standards, but by the standards of any four-cylinder on the road today. Ford is proud of this small-displacement masterpiece and not just because it helps meet ever-more-stringent fuel economy standards, though offering 32 mpg combined mileage is certainly part of it. The EcoBoost makes an impressive 310 peak hp through the use of twin independent cam timing, direct injection and a dual-scroll turbo bolted right onto the engine block. Ford says that makes for “a very useable setup.” The night before we drove it, Ford also said the EcoBoost in the Mustang has a broad torque band and no lag on the turbo. Scrutinizing a cutaway on an engine stand, it sure looked like an efficient package. While this engine is shared with the Lincoln MKC, where it sits transversely, it is refined to take advantage of its longitudinal orientation in the Mustang, with longer intake runners. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=G_BwARKA The EcoBoost 2.3-liter engine found in the 2015 Mustang is a far cry from the four-cylinder Mustangs from the 1970s-80s. Photo by Ford The best way to verify Ford’s claims was to take one out and wail on it. We did our wailing on some of our favorite canyon roads. These were shorter, tighter and a gear or two lower than the roads over which we drove the 5.0-liter Mustang GT V8 earlier in the day. This was ideal territory for the EcoBoost Mustang -- especially ours with its Performance Pack. That pack offers almost the same equipment found on the V8-powered GT: higher spring and damper rates, bigger rear stabilizer bar, 3.55 Torsen differential, front four-piston Brembos with 352 mm rotors, and bolt-on structural components to further stiffen the chassis. In addition, you get 255/40R19 summer tires, which keep gripping quite a bit longer than the standard all-season tires. Taken together, the pack brought the Mustang to a higher -- and faster -- level. Behind the wheel, as in the GT, you’re again impressed with how much more refined the car is to drive -- so smooth and so fun. Compared to older Mustangs, the inputs from the suspension are easier to take and easier to use in positioning the car in turns. With this new Mustang, particularly in Performance Pack trim, there's a delightful communication between the front and rear ends and between the road and the driver that inspires confidence. While we did get the GT’s all-season M&S tires to break loose both in front and in back, apart from some minor slip here and there, the EcoBoost Mustang's summer rubber stayed in place. Barreling through the canyons, the car was predictable and stable no matter how hard we pushed it. http://img2.autoweek.com/styles/gen-...?itok=YtAwZIIlCar News 2015 Ford Mustang under the skin The all-new 2015 Mustang features a refreshed engine lineup, revised drivetrain, a clean-slate platform and a fully independent suspension. Let's take a closer look at the key technical ... We kept thinking the whole time we were driving what this might mean for the Scion FR-S and Subaru BRZ. In four-cylinder trim and with the Performance Pack, the turbocharged Mustang could make for a strong competitor to those two sporty cars. Prices for the new Mustang range from just over $24,000 to a little over $40K. We’ll certainly have more stories on this exciting pony car crowd pleaser, but for now know that the two we’ve driven are promising, indeed. - See more at: 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost first drive | Autoweek |
I think the new Mustang is going to be a good seller for Ford + the aftermarket shops. I do like the below Black Mustang 4-Sure http://www.gtspirit.com/wp-content/u...14-640x426.jpg First 2015 Roush Mustang Pictures Revealed http://www.gtspirit.com/wp-content/g...5720724240.jpg ~The End > Rear ~ http://www.gtspirit.com/wp-content/u...38-640x426.jpg The first images of the brand new 2015 Ford Mustang tuned by Roush have emerged online courtesy of the crew at Automobile Magazine who recently enjoyed a private preview of the tuned American muscle car. As the pictures show, Roush have thoroughly updated the overall design of the latest-generation Mustang thanks to the fitment of a new bodykit. The new kit sees the addition of a new bonnet with a prominent power-dome, a sharper and more aggressive front bumper and a completely revised front grille. Elsewhere, the Roush tuned Mustang adopts a special rear bootlid lip spoiler, rear bumper and rear diffuser. New 20-inch wheels have also been added to the car. http://www.gtspirit.com/wp-content/u...40-640x426.jpg A selection of different Roush kits will be offered for the new Mustang with one kit for each of the three Mustang engines; the entry-level 3.7-litre V6, potent EcoBoost four-cylinder and the 5.0-litre V8. |
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