Haha god man I cannot wait! I sent you a message but did you buy your STI new? Did you test drive anything else or was that the only choice?

if you buy a 5.0 put a tune on in instantly so you can power shift it. other wise something in the computers will lock you out of gears my buddy had this problem with his.

I doubt I will get a 5.0 but holy shit they push out some raw fast power..

Evo>STi>Stang

Just think, there's a reason the Evo is being discontinued.

I think it's weird you're cross shopping a 5.0 Mustang with an STI. Of course you're going to notice that front being wicked heavy on the Mustang. It's a muscle car, the STI and Evo are sport compacts which usually compete against things like the GTI and Focus RS. Mustang competes again Camaros and Challengers.

The mustang has a 53/47 weight distribution. Its been along time since they've been front heavy.

This post was edited by ride686 on Jul 31 2015 04:23pm

I don't think heavy is the issue. He said huge/massive. It's a longitudinal V8 car compared to a horizontal 4. The nose will feel a mile long. The weight distribution is 53/47...

Yea has nothing to do with the weight. We were both talking about the physical length of the front-end!

However regarding you cross-shopping comment, yes. I want to drive every car that I have always thought was nice and make a decision. Is that not a good idea?
I am bias towards 4 cylinder engines though, I like them a lot.

That's what I meant. Such a completely different driving experience than a sport compact and the reason I think he sounded unfavourable toward the Mustang in comparison to the compacts he drove.



Nothing wrong with I just find it strange. To me it would be like cross shopping a Ford Escape, RAV4 and a Chevy Suburban. Like there's nothing wrong with it, but from the Evo and STI it sounds like you're looking at Sport Compacts. And then the prefer I4 comment, which really makes me thinking you're looking at Sport Compacts. I think your dislike of the Mustang feeling too big comes from cross shopping cars of the type you really like with a car that really is nothing like those cars.

If your buying a car driving cars you like/think you will like is a good idea, I just think with the information you gave me that it would be rather predictable you thought the Mustang was too big in the front.

Ahh alright man I see what your saying! Well any input is helpful guys so feel free to comment..

LOL spending 40k for the first time in my life is a huge huge decision and I can use all the experience/suggestions that you guys can give me