2001 Ford Mustang Coupe review from North America

Fuel pump needed replaced at 87k.

The plastic pieces inside your heating vent that direct the air toward you could be stronger. I hit a bad bump once, only damage to the car was that two of those plastic things came undone and fell down into the vent.

5spd clutch grinds a lot easier than any previous manual I've owned.

The V6 Mustang provides just enough power to make you feel like you are in a muscle car.

It won't run 12's at the track, but it'll still keep those hicks in their trucks or those ricer Civics from messing with you.

It's all in all a fun car to ride in. It has startling good 0-60 time for a V6.

I got 6.4 seconds on a 0-60 with a good launch without traction control and powershifting as best as I could, which is pretty good considering my only mods are a cold air intake and a GT take off catback exhaust system.

Although the car really does tend to lose power around 80+

She'll still pull up to around 105 though, and then start to feel ridiculously sluggish until it gets up to 115 and hits the limiter, although you probably don't go that fast often anyway :P.

My next car in line is going to be either a 04 Mach1 or a 05/06 GTO, and I feel I'm prepared for the step up to 400ish horsepower.

Driving my V6 like I stole it for about 10k has given me a good deal of experience with the ups and downs of rear wheel drive and the overall design of the muscle car. I've drifted it in rain for fun, slid on snow, and raced it at the track.

I feel it has really given me a good learning experience, so that I'm not as apt to not be able to handle the horsepower of a mach1 or GTO as are the typical highschool kids that get them for free from their parents and then wreck them.