Alright, Who Asked For a Backseat In The Ford Mustang GT350R?

Aaron Cole
by Aaron Cole

Ford will sell a backseat kit for its Ford Mustang GT350R because it’s the family car you’ve been asking for, the automaker announced Thursday.

Ford will sell the backseat it removed back to you for $999 (before installation), and it’s even made from the same herd of Alcantaras as the front seats. The rear seats will sport seatbelts and all original GT350 restraint systems.

The demand was clear, according to Ford Performance folks: people want a four-seater, track-ready car that could pull double duty owning all the apexes and hauling kids — which is not already called a Focus RS.

Having said that: Who wouldn’t want to ride in the back of a paint shaker with a flat-plane crank V-8, no air conditioning, radio or much sound deadening? I’d give it a whirl. Once.

The Ford Mustang GT350R is the perfect kind of family car and really the only one you need now.


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  • Signal11 Signal11 on Jan 22, 2016

    Because even all but the most extremely stripped down cars get used as daily drivers, often by guys in their 20s and 30s who have young children. Ever lived or worked on a military installation, particularly overseas? They're overrun with Mustangs. Here at Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul, there are at least 3-4 different GT350s and a handful of other high end variants. There's a Roush sitting in front of the Dragon Hill Hotel right now. I think I've seen pretty much every single one dropping and picking up kids at the elementary school. My brother in law has one. He drops the kids off at kindergarten and first grade on his way to work all the time. If you've got 5-10 year olds, you can still do that with tiny back seats, so long as they are there. No back seats means you aren't driving your car to work and dropping the kids off at the same time.

  • Big Al from Oz Big Al from Oz on Jan 22, 2016

    Next you will be able to get a tow package for the GT. This is for towing your tools and spares as well as take the family on a race day outing.

  • B534202 B534202 on Jan 22, 2016

    I would say that what they had instead of the rear seats there look ugly and cheap, so I would probably opt for the rear seats too even though nothing fits back there, just so my $60k car doesn't look it went through some DIY weight reduction.

    • TonyJZX TonyJZX on Jan 22, 2016

      I'm glad someone said it. Ford want $995 for an alcantara sheet that replaces something that midgets and small kids or your bags can sit on for something that no one or your bags can sit on. Yeah, nah. lol. If you want the pro rice look, remove the seats and then fix a cheap half cage in it, preferably sprayed red.

  • RideHeight RideHeight on Jan 22, 2016

    Every time I scroll past that top photo my sense organs instinctively clinch because my brain stem thinks it's a Murilee interior about to spark a Crabspirits vignette.

    • Bumpy ii Bumpy ii on Jan 22, 2016

      Dylann hated the GT350R. "Sounds like a f'n Subie" he cursed to himself. All seven speakers had long ago descended into rattly static, robbing him of the sonorous burble of a proper V8. The touchscreen was equally weary of its existence; the mocking patina of dull black and heavily-scratched glare denied Dylann any opportunity to overawe the raucous, cobby power plant with a more potent serenade...

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