R&T Gets Rumors Right: All-Motor SVT Mustang On The Way, Plus More 2015 'Stang Information

by Derek Kreindler

Published: June 10th, 2013

t gets rumors right all motor svt mustang on the way plus more 2015 stang

Spend enough time on the autoblogosphere and you’ll know that most “rumors” propagated by various auto sites are at best worthless garbage created to generate pageview clicks. The best stuff usually doesn’t make it to the pages of the publication, because sources need to be protected, and the juiciest rumors would inevitably somebody’s cover if they were revealed.

Thanks to some of our supplier contacts (hey, if the OEMs won’t talk to us, we’ll go elsewhere), we’ve known a fair bit about the 2015 Mustang for some time. But we didn’t want to publish anything about it just yet, largely because doing so would have meant that a trusted source would have been burned.

But now that Road & Track has spilled the beans on the all new SVT Cobra, (with accurate information that was certainly gleaned from someone deep inside Ford) it’s time for us to show our hand (with the permission of our source). Among the new features appearing on the 2015 Mustang

Independent rear suspension (but you knew that).
A 3.7L V6, 5.0 V8. The new 2.3L Ecoboost I4 is said to make roughly 270 horsepower.
MT82 6-speed will carry over
The SVT Cobra will have a 5.2L naturally aspirated V8 with no engine cover. The reason for that is because the new styling (and Euro safety regs) mean a supercharger is not feasible as far as fitting under the hood goes.
There will be further option packages for the SVT car to make it even more hardcore and track-oriented

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FJ60LandCruiser on Jun 11, 2013

So Ford is seriously trying to market the Mustang in Europe and is cripping its performance stats to do so. No one wants to buy an American muscle car in Europe. It makes zero sense to those diesel powered microcar driving cheese eating surrender monkeys. They will sell a few dozen, maybe a hundred.

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- JuniperBug on Jun 11, 2013
  
  So you go to Europe a lot, huh? I see a fair number of Mustangs, Camaros, Challengers, Chrysler 300s and other American cars around Frankfurt when I'm there (several times a month). I never saw a greater concentration of Vipers than the summer I lived in Switzerland. As to the genius further up who mentioned that the Europeans don't have money: I refer you again to the Germans and the Swiss, but then that's a market of "only" about 90 million or so. I understand that the Scandinavians don't do too badly, either.
  
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Kjhkjlhkjhkljh kljhjkhjklhkjh on Jun 11, 2013

270hp? hmmm mazda gets 300hp and it still has room after that. sounds like a poor job of ''binning'' the power for sales. On the other hand tuners will *LOVE* that thing. One question though that might make a big difference... inter-cooler or no inter-cooler ? I can see that accounting for a 40hp deficit.

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- Power6 on Jun 11, 2013
  
  Why is everybody focusing on 270? Seems to be based on the 2.0 Ecoboost, have to imagine the 2.3 is going to bring more power. Intercooler is required equipment, last non-intercooled turbo I can recall would be the Pontiac Sunbird in '90 would any mfr make a non-intercooled turbo today?
  
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- Danio3834 on Jun 11, 2013
  
  @Power6 Peak HP alone, unfortunately, is what sells cars. I'd take less peak HP any day for a broad increase in torque down low. Of course with a boosted car, you can have both, but at the expense of durability and fuel economy.
  
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- Fordson on Jun 11, 2013
  
  Mazda gets 300 hp? MS3 is rated at 263, no? I would think a 2.3 Ecoboost would be around 300 hp. Torque would be well over 300 - say 310, starting at 1500 rpm. The V6 is making what - 260-270? At over 4k rpm? The Ecoboost would be quite a bit faster than a V6. And yes - all intercooled, of course.
  
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Loser on Jun 11, 2013

Just wondering if the 6.2 will fit into this new Mustang.

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Lightspeed on Oct 15, 2013

The renderings are probably accurate, but in this form won't show the proportion and dynamic of the design. I'm betting it's going to be spectactular in 3D sitting right in front of you. Equally important, my impression of the camo-ed mules is a much smaller car.

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