2011 Mustang GT 5.0 Review

Attention: We shot 2 cars for this video. I was driving the blue car from the intro, with the glass roof and Brembo's, and the exterior shots are a Red GT/CS with no glass roof. There are lots of reasons we did it, but please stop asking now because it has zero impact on the review itself.

[lalondtm]

"Various dynometer tests have revealed that Ford Motor Company underrated the engine, according to the tests the engine is closer to a power of 435 hp and 404 ft. lbs tq"

Sounds good to me!

[TheSmokingTire]

@nachtkriechen so I drove a blue car and we used exteriors from a red car... so what? how does it affect the review of the car? Not at all. We didn't have our own car at the press launch, and had to shoot with 2 different cars, so it doesn't match perfectly. Again, so what? it doesn't affect the review of the car at all.

[rileypotter]

I love how they are showing a red gt/cs and then in the interior the car has an optional panoramic roof that the gt/cs didn't have.

[TheSmokingTire]

@beachaar we've said this before, like 15 times already in the comments section. The car I was testing was the blue GT with brembos and glass roof from the intro. The exterior shots are of a red GT C/S without a glass roof. Logistics prevented us from shooting just one car.

[christenn]

The 2011 will always be special because of the return of 5.0. The coyote is the best engine block Ford has ever built.

[TheSmokingTire]

The recorded exhaust note on the V6 was the actual V6 I was driving. The GT video, I drove a blue car and the exteriors were obviously shot of a red car, without the glass roof. This was because of logistical reasons, and we had to share cars with people. Doesn't affect the review of the car.

[TheSmokingTire]

@subykid13 hey kid. You need to get your facts straight. The Camaro SS 6 speed has an entirely different engine than the automatic. This is for fuel economy reasons, since the auto has cylinder deactivation that can't be used with a manual gearbox. You're wrong, and that fact can be looked up anywhere. The auto has a 6.0L engine, the manual has a 6.2L engine. Facts are facts, and if you're going to be an online bully, you should get them straight.

[TheSmokingTire]

@tenjinnim obviously, not the same car. The car I was driving was the blue one from the intro, and the other, red car, was a California Special package with no glass roof. For logistical reasons, we had to shoot 2 cars.

[disabledvet]

i just got a 2011 mustang GT today. OMG it is sick. i can even change the color of the dash light. it halls major ass. 

[TheSmokingTire]

@Brewskies24 no, we used a different car for the exterior shots for logistical purposes, but it's not a V6. The car I was driving was the blue car from the intro, with 19" wheels, Brembo brakes, and glass roof. The exterior shots are a Red GT/CS with no glass roof. Apologies, but logistics prevented us from using the same car for those shots.

[TeViiNz]

the new 5.0 sounds good but the 4.6 sounds just a little bit better

[TheSmokingTire]

@Zimba9810 you should have read the video's description, where we say that we had to use two different cars to make this video. The one I was driving was the Grabber Blue from the intro, and the exterior shots were of a red GT C/S with no glass roof. Normally that's not how we do things, but it just worked out that way this time.

[TheSmokingTire]

@Curufin42 yes, the b-roll is of a different GT than the car I drove, which is shown in the intro. logistics prevented us from shooting just one car.

[mrmovin]

so how in the hell inside of the was there was a sunroof or glass top and when it was showin from outside driving you could only see red top??

[TheSmokingTire]

@RalfMilo obviously, because we shot 2 different cars. For logistical reasons, we couldn't use just one car, so the car I drove was the blue car from the intro and the exterior b-roll was from a California Special, obviously without a glass roof.

[joeturner]

He's not driving the Mustang GT when it shows the interior shot. Interior has a sunroof. Exterior shot it's a solid top. Fail.

[TheSmokingTire]

@oconnellv as I've said many times over in the comments, we didn't have the opportunity to use the same car for me to test as to shoot the b-roll. it's just the way the shoot went. The blue car in the intro is the car I tested, and the red one is the "california special" version.

[TheSmokingTire]

@turbo311 There's a good reason for that. The car I was driving on the inside was the Blue GT from the intro, which has the only wheels you can get that fit around brembo's. The C/S wheels (from the exterior shots, yes we used 2 cars) don't fit around the Brembo's and can't be configured that way.

[kingcrimson]

I completely disagree with Matt, the 4.6 sounds much better than the 5.0. It's worse in every other way, although the 4v DOHC 4.6 does have tons of potential. The 2v was a joke, a really good sounding joke.

[TheSmokingTire]

@jgtemplars if real sports cars only have two seats, how do you explain the Porsche 911? Or the Aston Martin DB9? Or the Ferrari 612?