The Air Conditioner does not cool the air.
There's a small tear in the cloth of the driver's seat.
One of the connectors for the Rear Defroster has come off the glass.
This car has surprised me.
I have had some serious accidents and the most serious damage was a broken Rim.
Other than that this car has turned out to be a lot tougher than I expected a sports car to be.
Performance is not that good for a V8 in stock form, however the car is very easy to mod, and aftermarket parts are cheap.
The car is a head turner, no matter where I drive it everyone will stare at it, I didn't specifically get it for that, but it's a nice bonus :D.
Ever since I bought it back in 2003 it has not given me a single Engine Problem, it still runs as strong as when I bought it.
There is a clunk sound that comes from the rear right hand side. It is a known issue with worn bushings in the swaybar, not critical, but annoying when riding on the street, and you hear "clunk" when accelerating/cornering.
Mustangs are cheap cars designed to make money by selling mass quantities. I wouldn't call a 3800 pound 4 seater a sports car. Its more of a muscle car, take a huge car and put a huge engine in it. Less than impressive, a neon srt4 is more of a sports car...
Hard to believe that a 10 year old Mustang would be a head turner.
Probably the way the reviewer drives it has more to do with people looking at it, more than the car itself, and not in a good way.
Who are the last 2 ingnorants who posted comments? You kniow, it;s funny how many driver's with Neons and Civic's have gotten spanked by my 5.0 95 Mustang. The Mustang name carries a heritage, and the muscle to this car isn't necessarily the V8, but the Mustangs reputation. For those who think that Mustang is a "mass produced, cheaply made" sports car, your wrong. The Mustang lags far behind in sales compared to Dodges and Honda's for example. So who's car is mass produced? You can attempt to mod a 4 cylinder with intakes and neon light, but the car is still a paltry 4 cylinder. The true V8 gas hog is a MAN's car! I love my Mustang, keep it clean, and YES, it does turn heads. The 95 was a retro-sharp year.
You can't even type properly or grasp basic concepts of the English language. So why should we take advice from you about such sophisticated machines as sports cars?
Why are you burning a guy for his spelling? Ooo he doesn't spell right so his opinion doesn't matter...
Mustangs may have "lost" their tuffness lately, but IMO they are still respectable cars. Why would you mention a neon though? If I said I drive a 4.6 mustang...you'd say yeah, cool alright...
If I said I drive a neon...you'd laugh and tell your friends. :)
I wait to see the day when ford puts a 5.8 in a stang. Or possibly a 460 engine. Now that would be a muscle car. Hey that might be a project for when I'm a bit older with more money. Buy a stang that can fit the 460 and drop that engine in. That'd be sweet project...
Mustangs are not mass produced cars in any way... the reason you see so many is because so many people like them and buy them... so hence you will see a lot of them around. As for performance... I agree the 5.0 should have had at least 250 horses (215 is kinda pathetic) but even with only 215 it wasn't a bad car. you could easily put a few upgrades and have a car that could spank any 4 banger around. and since it was a relatively small car it could move pretty decently even with 215. As for the mustang not being tough enough or whatever as of lately...haven't you checked out the 05' GT, it is one bad car...0-60 in 5.1...that sounds very impressive to me... but if that's not enough...just wait for the new Shelby... Supercharged 5.4 liter with 475 stock horses.
The GT from 1994-1998 had 215 stock horses - and could do 1-60 in 5.5 seconds. Almost as good as a Camaro, a Cobra or a Firebird.
If anything, the Mustang is being torn away, rather than mass produced.
In 2005, they ran out of GT's. Explain that...
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Replying to the "SRT-4" comment.
Just to correct you on a few points, first of all a mustang weighs in at approximately 3100 lbs, second of all you claim that the mustang is a cheap mass produced car, if that's true than I would hate to see what a neon... I mean "SRT-4" is.
"You can't even type properly or grasp basic concepts of the English language. So why should we take advice from you about such sophistocated machines as sports cars?"
What, someone who can't write up to your standards must be by default stupid in the matters of automotive performance and engineering? Oh, by the way man, didn't you misspell sophisticated?
Well I have a 4 banger... a Honda Accord V-tec 5speed and it will get left in the dust by one of those 5.0's my friend has a supercharged 1994 mustang GT 5.0 and it will beat any... I mean any 4 cylinder car especially the SRT-4. all the SRT-4 is it's a turbo charged neon with the turbo the size of a small melon. but any who that mustang does turn heads. costom 18" rims and that BOv.. (Blow off Valve) I like mustangs I thought they were overplayed and that just had their history to back them up, but no... thay can back it up them selves.. but myself I am a chevy man I like the camaro's and I will get one and compete with my homies mustang.
OK here is the thing with the "Pathetic 215hp", imagine this in 87 the 5.0 HO was rated at 225hp and 300 tq... now go to 93 when it was 205 and 270tq (I believe) and then 94-95 comes around and it all the sudden has 215hp and 285tq, when if you look under the hood... NOTHING HAS CHANGED... look at bore and stroke and cylinderheads NOTHING HAS CHANGED... the only thing that has changed was the way ford measured their horsepower, Ford, GM, and Chrysler were notorious for underrating their hp and tq numbers lower than real because of insurance premiums... and as far as any one with their "Sophisticated Machine"- yeah nice one Lance Tran from fast and the furious, you can come visit my 95 Stang GT, and we will see who has a better "Machine", yeah ricers are all the same, their engine is not as big as their mouth...
I just like balls...
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