I appreciate that you guys are critical thinkers. Henry Ford is an American hero. Regret that his offspring are disappointing and dropped the ball. Who would spend a moment worrying about an IRS vs. solid rear axle on a Mustang; it has a posi-track rear end and traction control. US roads are excellent and most sane folks drive carefully near the speed-limit. A solid-axle is just fine under these conditions. If you must have IRS, then get serious, insist for the real thing only, and buy a porsche, not a copy cat look alike wanna be rice box.

Recently found a true gem- new (dealer demo) white CS black cloth convertible loaded including GPS, Sirus Sat radio and HID lights. The patriarch owner of a Ford dealership in Michigan had it stashed in his Florida get-away house garage. He and his wife are in their 70’s and love it. Now it is our baby to enjoy.

My wife is flying down today to drive it back to our Texas ranch. She, my daughter, and her friend will stop-over at Disney and then see the parents nearby along their way towards home. The CS- It is truly a great collector car. Don’t sell yours soon! Shred the title! Its fun to add performance improvements and attend Mustang gatherings. Ever heard of a Honda cars gathering?

Shortly, I’ll have a dealer coordinate the other accessories added that you guys discussed. Plus I’ll try to enhance the interior with aftermarket Hurst shifter and console accoutrements for a more professional look & feel. Sequential LED tai lights are a must. The 2010 design is slipping away from the Mustang mark, especially the rear end and strange tail lights. Its scary to see.

The CS is not available in 2010 and this 2009 run may be the last. Recall the idiots in WDC mandated 1.6 gal flush toilets to save water. Now everyone flushes more often for appropriate results, thus using more water in the process.

No doubt these WDC bozos (even if they can’t grab our guns) will soon mandate in a few years from now that all cars shall have an engine no larger than 2-cyl. getting 100-mpg. Then they’ll force the OEMs to make battery cars solely later on. Since the gov owns the OEMs now, their mismanagement of the USA will further infect the OEMs previous mis-management.

In Singapore, cars beyond 5-yrs age must be disposed. In Canada, old cars parked around houses pending future restoration, must be hauled off or hidden with their guns. The commies want the masses on trains and buses, not in cars.

The Camaro’s project manager is an affirmative action recipient, who never played with one in his earlier days. The car is tacky with the head & tail lights’ tops cropped off by the body. The gauges on the console is not ergonomic and will fill with spilled sticky soft drinks. Its heritage is lost forever.

The Challenger and Charger don’t have battery and oil gauges, but are available with 4-doors. Good looking 2-door model but a muscle car without at least 6 factory gauges is a bust.

We also have an F250, two Ford cabin tractors, Jeep CJ7 and 2 BMWs. We previously owned 3 Mustangs and 1 camero, so we know good cars from crap. We have a full-size landcruiser at our house in Africa. Its strong but too heavy for the bush.

Got the LC stuck once near river and required to hire a Cat D8 to pull it out. Too heavy-wheels sin deep fast! Its embarrassing being in a Japanese vehicle so I sit in the back while our driver deals with the roads and crazy drivers.

That UK guy named Jeremy on his Tv show drove a Mustang and had some stiff-upper lip, snooty comments, although he liked driving it as he had said so, but he seemed envious that the UK has nothing to compare. It was then I realized Jeremy is in the closet. This was not a man who belonged in nor appreciates a muscle car. His opinions are to be dismissed. Tata (India) now owns jag and rover, which makes Mahindra tractors, those 3-wheeler taxis & other pieces of various junk, such as the Nano.

Thus for jeremy I place my recommendation on the type of car he secretly dreams for – the special “Pink Mustang” (the breast cancer special model.) I can no longer watch his show as his voice and face make me ill -due to my aversion to blubber, blabber, and boobs.

Real cowboys don’t drive up in Japanese pickups to a rodeo, BBQ, or FHA gathering. Expect to be run-off and laughed-at. These rice burners cars and trucks from japan, korea, china, and other parts of asia are always of quite freaky designs. I was once behind a lexus with a license plate stating “WWII disabled veteran purple heart (pacific navy).” Munchousens Syndrome?

When you see a Peterbuilt, MAC, Kenworth, 18-wheeler in Africa and Asia, which are there for performing the big heavy-duty works, compared to European & asian trucks, you’ll understand and respect that indeed American-built vehicles are best.

If the American car OEMs continue to follow the foreign import designs as a means of competition to survive, say bye. In my humble opinion they need to continue building American muscle Mustangs, F250s, Camaros, Challengers, Chargers, Jeeps and Lincoln Continentals as the US market niche.

Some day we will no longer be flooded with cheap imports that fill our dumps. Our factories and good jobs will be returned. JerUSAlem and its Israelites will be freed here from usury and globalist monopolies. The LORD has promised it to be so.

Later,
Phineas

Thought you might be interested in what’s been going on lately. I ordered a pair of the “45th Year Anniversary” chrome emblems that come on the stock (non-CS) 2009 Mustangs. I could not pass on the idea of making this car even more special. Now I just need to find the right place to mount them. On the standard cars, they are located where the black C/S stripes go, so I’ll have to find someplace else.

Man, again, I just cannot get over the torque and power curve in 2nd and 3rd since I put those Ford Performance Racing mufflers on!!

Old tom cat

By the way, I filled up the tank this past Saturday and there is no fuel filler problem. The gas goes in totally unrestricted. Whatever that was in 2006 has now been solved.

See you guys in the wind………

I just took possession of my brand new 2009 GT/CS–exactly like the pictures shown here: white with black top and the black/dove gray interior–hood scoop and all. I was incredibly lucky to get one of the last ones made–the dealer told me that Ford has now ceased production of the ‘09 and is retooling for the 2010.

This is one SWEET ride…………….the power is so much more awesome than my HP289 ever was.

I have a couple of comments:
1. I don’t find the seats uncomfortable at all and in fact they sit really good to me, especially after all of the adjustments with the lumbar support. I have an Escape, so anything is comfortable after riding in that covered wagon. The interior passenger side is sparse, but it looks better than GM’s cars ever did.
2. nl1357, please give me details on what that Ford performance package is that you mentioned. I have the Ford Racing Performance mufflers getting installed this weekend (ordered them from Ninosport). The CS package was supposed to include a larger air intake (I don’t know what the stock on looks like, so I must assume that Ford did add it on). Is there something else included in this dealer-installed package besides the mufflers? What do I ask for when I talk to my dealer? If it gives an additional 50HP, then I would like to do this. By the way, how much did it cost?

Lastly, don’t be too hard on the reviewer—he was just stating his opinion. Personally, I am so overjoyed at getting this limited edition jewel that I can’t yet see any flaws.

Let me know as soon as you can–if possible before Saturday.

Thanks,
Tomcat

No I did not get the “chrome” fuel door cover. It stood out “too much” and really did look cheesy. My wife also did not like it; she called it “nasty” and that kinda made me feel skeptical too. To be honest, I have not seen one live on a car, but from the pictures, it just looked out of place and interrupted the smooth lines of the car.

I usually choose white whenever I buy a new car, as that color generally makes whatever the make of car is stand out as being larger than the other colors do. My favorite color though is red, but in this case you are correct, the C/S decal striping does not stand out very well against a darker color. The white with black trim decals and top is just simply outstanding, as you can see from the pictures above. Plus, it seems that red Mustangs are everywhere these days. I have yet to see another white C/S car in the Raleigh NC area, so for a while, I will be the only one around.

By the way, when we rented a Mustang convertible a couple of years ago, it took forever to fill the fuel tank because the auto nozzle kept cutting off whenever I tried to increase the flow rate. I actually had to slow the flow down to a trickle. The gas station attendant said this was typical for “those cars” and I wondered if we had a defective filler line to the tank?

Just tell me one thing: Did you opt for the silver plastic fuel door cover?

I thought I better do this while Ford is still in business. My friends at work think that I am nuts and have gone crazy. There is no justification, other than the fact that I had Mustangs years ago and once you’ve had the fever, it never goes away………. By the way, my wife is totally supportive–she is happy that it is a car rather than another woman ( and it is cheaper too!).

I am getting the Ford dealer to install their axle-back exhaust system as it sounds a little more deeper than stock GT.

Thanks for your help. Tom cat

That about sums up everything I need to know about getting some exhaust sound.

I appreciate your time.

Tom

Most, if not all, cat back systems include baffled “turbo” mufflers of some type. These mufflers are different from the media-filled mufflers that come stock on most new vehicles and have for years. Instead of stuffing media (such as the fiberglass in your “glass packs”) into the muffler housing to disrupt and absorb some of the sound waves, modern “turbo” style performance mufflers (so named because they were originally developed for turbocharged engines) use a specially-designed maze of baffles within the housing to cancel out many of the sound waves the engine produces – they’re usually louder than their media-filled counterparts, but they decrease backpressure and therefore allow the engine to breathe better and make more horsepower.

The C/S doesn’t come with any special exhaust system (though I think the Bullitt does, and I know the Shelbys do), but all Mustang GT’s have a slightly aggressive exhaust note. Ford has an “axle back” exhaust system for ‘05-current Mustangs available through dealer parts departments and other Ford performance parts retailers (for about $500) that would probably give you everything you’re looking for. But shop around and you may find similar systems from other major exhaust system manufacturers for even less.

The best advice I could give you would be to visit some of the larger online Mustang owners forums and see which exhaust systems are the most popular.

What is a “cat-back” exhaust system? When I was in my youthful days, we installed what was then called “glass packs”. Don’t these 2009’s come with that throaty muffler system already installed? I followed a fellow around town for 15 minutes last week, just listening to him going through the gearbox so I could hear the mufflers. I was hoping that mine would come with the same sound.

You’re certainly not an “old fool” for wanting a car like the Mustang C/S; however a carefully-optioned regular GT Convertible would probably represent a much better value. The loaded car I tested stickered at $40,530…the money you’d save by passing up on the C/S package and several of the other options this vehicle came with would more than pay for a good aftermarket cat-back exhaust system.

I guess I did a poor job of making my point, that being Ford is not alone in these accounting over engineering decisions. Ford, in my opinion, deserves some heat for sticking with solid axles. I chose to pick on Honda to point out that others make the same cost driven compromises. I will concede that I am hardly a walking library of Honda’s past configurations, but most cars didn’t have rear discs before the early 90’s. By the early 90’s, many cars had them, and some were pretty pedestrian, like the 92 Sable that I used as a station car. (As an aside, Ford cheaped out and eliminated them on later Taurii) I don’t understand your statement that “Accords and Civics don’t need” disc brakes and you give the ability to lock the Honda’s drum brakes up as a justification of your assertion. Isn’t the prime reason for discs over drums the ability to resist fade after repeated heavy braking, not locking up the wheels? And if Hondas don’t “need” discs, how come the Honda enthusiast boards are loaded with “how-to” postings on drum to disc conversions? Lastly, DISC, not disk! Such a mistake would be forgivable if this was not an auto enthusiast site.

Have you sat/drove in one of these Mustangs after it had 10-15k miles on it? All that chincy aluminum paint wears really poorly. So the “brightwork” around the gear shift shows marks quickly. The gear shift looks car-rental abused from any rings on the driver’s hand or occasional contact. The door handle also looks like garbage quickly. Not to mention the black, hard plastic door panels show every accidental shoe mark.

A used Mustang interior is not pretty and I would think hurts the resale of the car substantially.

I never said that the (100% bash-worthy) silver fuel door cover came with the CS package…but I suppose I didn’t make the distinction that it was optional, either.

Regardless, the offensive piece of crap was an honest-to-goodness factory option (listed on the sticker) on the CS convertible I had.

This could be one of those “factory options” that is shipped with the car (in the trunk) and then installed during the PDI process at the dealership. I’m pretty sure it’s also sold as a dealer-installed accessory that can be retro-fitted to any Mustang should the buyer suffer such an aggregious lapse in judgement as to want one.

Nonetheless, it’s horrible, regardless of which variety of Mustang it happens to infect. It warranted mentioning, however, because its superfluous nature dovetailed perfectly with everything else about the California Special package; it just took the theme of superficiality a little further.

By the way, Civic & Accords didn’t (and don’t) need rear disks either. On a normal street Honda with economy tires and no ABS you can easily lock the rears with drums if you try. The drums provide more than adequate braking force for the rear on a Honda.