While not all wrong, you might be a bit harsh on the FCA twins. Formula is not totally flawed.
The S550 chassis is relatively new, and if not able to be shared economically across other vehicles, we could be stuck with worse.
I’d love to see the current chassis lightened and updated, or just like FCA, throw a ton of power at it
A Mcleran isn’t as comfortable as a street car anyway right?
-J
These days in the automotive world, with a total obsession and focus on leveraging scale, it will be extremely difficult for a single model platform, selling somewhere ~100K or less a year, to stand on it’s own. The numbers just don’t work out.
FCA model has worked out brilliantly. With relatively modest updates over the years, they’ve been able to keep their offering relevant. Ford and GM dump unimaginable amounts of money into all new generations, only to see their sales drop off a cliff after 3 models years. Rinse and repeat. It’s a vicious cycle.
I think it is very likely that the next gen stang utilizes a shared platform. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I know we like to give the new Camaro a hard time, but it sits on a fantastic platform that is shared with other models. It can be done.
Agreed, it would be very cool to have 2 and 4 door variants built off the Mustang platform.
There is no chance Ford stops production of the Mustang, so why not use that as the starting point in chassis design, but allow the base design to be stretched for a 4-door and accept both AWD and hybrid tech.
Now that they’ve invested into aluminum trucks, I can’t imagine they can’t expand that investment into a relatively low volume coupe/sedan platform.
-J
If GT500 is a poor man's mclaren, is a 1998 Civic on 20 lbs of boost a poor man's GT500?
Bruce McLaren rolled in his grave at the very notion that a 4,200 lb Mustang would be used in the same sentence as one of his cars.