Base engine - 5.0L V8
Base horsepower - 460 hp @ 7,000 RPM
Base torque - 420 lb-ft @ 4,600 RPM
Inside the 2018 Mustang sports a familiar layout with good build quality and a retro theme Ford basically took everything that people liked about the interior over the last few years and expanded upon it like a touched on earlier. This is also the most personalizable Mustang to date from a variety of interior color options to accent stitching finishers new technology and more also and notice that there's a greater use of soft touch materials especially across the center console. It definitely made the interior feel a bit nicer this example is pretty much loaded to the gills it's a GT premium equipped with a bunch of optional extras including the premium plus package here you'll find six way power adjusting front seats with manual recline the driver also gets two-way adjustable lumbar both front seats are heated and cooled while a heated steering wheel is optional as far as features it's all pretty similar to the last couple years you have the new sync 3 infotainment system with available navigation. You can control the climate control system which is a dual zone setup here either through the infotainment system or through the analog controls right above the toggle switches in the center stack for 2018 the top-line audio system was a 9 speaker setup that had a rear mounted subwoofer but for 2019 there's a new range topping 12 speakers surround sound system available without a doubt the coolest piece of tech on the new Mustang is the 12 inch reconfigurable digital instrument cluster it's an optional feature it really adds a lot of excitement to the drive and it's also very personalizable especially with the different colors that you can pick you can change the layout of the cluster depending on the drive mode you have selected is a very comprehensive driver information system and of course for its typical suite of track apps including the line lock system.
PERMORMANCE
The car drives in monumental ways compared to the previously offered 6-speed automatic there's steering wheel paddle shifters a sport mode and with the toggle switches in the bottom console you can adjust the different drive modes including the powertrain parameters shifts occur so much quicker even though there is more power the transmission alone makes the car feel so much faster and more responsive to your inputs in short an automatic is never gonna replace the engagement you get from a good manual transmission but if you didn't want to row your own gears the tennspeed will not come with the sacrifice of performance 0 to 60 occurs in just over 4 seconds when it comes to fuel economy an automatic equipped GT is rated between 16 miles per gallon in the city and 25 miles per gallon on the highway you can expect an average of around 19 miles per gallon the manual transmission comes is slightly below that the tank capacity is 16 gallons and 93 octane premium fuel is recommended for maximum performance.
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