With a new Dodge Challenger and Chevy Camaro coming soon to a boulevard near you, Ford can't afford for its biggest hit in recent years to get stale. So word is in 2008, just in time to head off the competition, the Mustang will get a freshening.
-- "Underpinnings will be largely carried over" "Every exterior panel, apart from the roof center, will be changed"
well, since I have an '06 I hope there aren't major changes for a while.....but if they make it less retro, that could make the '05-'07s potental collectibles.
But I absolutely agree......ditch the terrible gauges.....you can hardly read them with "daytime" lights on......you can hardly read them with the regular lights on.......and you can't read them at all with the top down, and while they're at it, would be nice if the "standard adjustable steering wheel" had more positions than "too high----even more too high------much too high" and a control lever you could reach without looking like you're crotch diving. How do they spend so many years on a design and still launch it with obvious/major glitches.
JC '06 GT convert (still trying to figure out how to install the cigarette lighter.....the dealer can't)
at 29 Jul 2006, Itsfrom Click [ snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net] wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net:
I have the 'pick your color' gauges and no such problems. Granted, with the sun at the wrong angle and the top down, yeah, sometimes that interfears with reading them. But most other convertible ownere I know (not just Ford) state the same thing. I wonder if Ford used someone my size for their adjustable steering wheel as it's quite right for me. ;)
Paul:
yeah, I head My Color set for blue and the gauges are fairly legible at night.....the only reason I got My Color was for the 4 central gauges instead of 2, and they're miserable little things. Very hard to read anything during the day, and forget trying to read the stereo or Message Center readouts in bright light.
Maybe I'm the wrong size: 5'11", but when I get the seat set so I'm comfortable, the wheel is still too high and have to sit forward to see the guages.
While I'm whining: what's with the goofey stereo? My old '97 Chrylser has a killer Infinity stereo: graphic equalizer for quick changes, joy stick for front-rear/left-right. But only a single CD player, so thought the 6 disc changer would be an improvement. But what a miserable hard thing to operate.....having to go thru the entire menu thing to change the balance or Bass, takes forever to load CDs and for it to read them and generally gets your eyes off the road longer than it should.
BUT, really like the car......just expected more refinement for $35,000.....like maybe an ashtray.
Jim
'06 GT convert.....Vista Blue....Parchment top & leather
at 29 Jul 2006, Itsfrom Click [ snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net] wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@storefull-3256.bay.webtv.net:
Same here, a very light blue, easy on my eyes and very legible. A guy at work just bought a Chrysler vert. Same problems, with the top down, his gauges are a bit hard to read and hsi stereo display is not easily readable. Oh well, teh hardship of buying a convertible I guess, :-)
The one in my wife's 02 GMC Sierra is pretty good as well with settings. She recently had an 06 loaner and it's radio is as big a pain with settings as the Shaker 500. I love the sound on it though. How often do you adjust the sound? I rarely do as I have it set exavtly to my liking. I agree that feeding CD's in the changer is something better done while stopped. :-)
Hehehehe. Ashtrays these days are optional equipment. As in 'smokers package'. Fine with me as I am a non smoker and don't see why I need to pay for an ashtray and lighter I don't use anyway.
Paul:
on the stereo settings: I listen to all kinds of CDs, a lot of them anthologies of old recordings....and you have to adjust the settings on every track.......what a pain.
speaking of pains: what's with the location of the ignition? every "stang comes with the key ring beeper control....and it hangs right on your knee while your driving - only solution is to take it off the ring (and lose it).
the Smokers Package.....grrrrrrrr......I don't often smoke in the car, but I don't need two power outlets and didn't like looking at the chintzie "power outlet" plug in the middle of my new $250 wood overlays. So I ordered the "official" smokers group at the FoMoCo dealer. For $118 I got a plastic ashtray that goes in the drink holder (and it's not as nice as the one I got for a buck at Dollar General) and a lighter. You have to take out the existing Power Outlet outlet and replace it with the lighter outlet which is a different size. Only problem is, the instructions tell you about the special tool needed to remove the old outlet. Course, the dealer doesn't have one, isn't going to get one and can't figure out how to get the outlet out without it. a $35,000 car?
Jim
They are just hopeful that the cost and aggravation will be enough to get you to quit smoking... :-)
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 18:27:08 -0400, snipped-for-privacy@webtv.net (Itsfrom Click) puked:
What could the tool possibly be? Jesus, I don't know how many outlets I've replaced like that in my lifetime. Can you be creative?
-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?
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