Thursday, October 9, 2008

2010 Mustang dash revealed


The Paris Auto Show has come and gone, and we're still looking at sneaky pictures of various pieces of the 2010 Mustang. Ford continues to toy with us by revealing the dash of the car in it's entirety this week.

The poorly lit, extreme closeup picture at least reveals the entire dash, unlike a previous photo that showed an angled shot, with a partial look at it.

While GM has just given up on trying to camouflage the new Camaro, Ford presses on and has plans to drop six more weeks of pictures to tease and annoy us.

The new Mustang will be officially unveiled at the Los Angeles auto show on November 19th.



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Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Spied: Ford Taurus ST





While the current Ford Taurus is nothing more than a rebadged Ford 500, the next generation will be an all new car based on nothing more than the much beloved Ford Mondeo. Ford has already announced that a version of it's upcoming Ecoboost engines will be available in the Taurus.

Now the word is that the Ecoboost version will be a 350hp twin turbo V6 to be badged as the ST, and it's got us thinking SHO all over again. The news is music to the ears of owned and enjoyed Ford's much beloved SHO.

The spy pictures taken by the folks at World Car Fans are quite a scoop. It looks like Ford designers opened up the lower air dam to help feed the force-fed powerplant. The next generation of the corporate grille is partly visible, too, and it appears as though the bars got thinner and less cartoonish in execution.

Headlights visible through the heavy camo appear to be of the LED kind, and they look far more modern than the current Taurus' 1990's design. Massive, MKS-like 20-inch rims help show this undercover Taurus has sporty pretenses, as does the duel exhaust out back. Also evident from the spy pics is the fact that the bulbous roofline from the current Taurus has been replaced with something far more shapely and contemporary.

We still have several months before we will be able to see the car without camo, but it's good news that there is already a performance counterpart in the works.

Source: World Car Fans



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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

More pics of the Mustang FR500CJ Cobra Jet




Following up on a previous video that was posted of the new Mustang FR500CJ engaged in some dragstrip action, we now have some more pictures of Ford's new Cobra Jet.

Ford is supposedly only going to build 50 of these dragstrip terrors, all of which are powered by a blown 5.4 liter 32 valve V8 based on the GT500 motor.

The engine has been breathed on heavily over the "stocker" and much has been stripped off the car to save weight. With it's "big and little" tire combo, it looks track ready.

We'll have more details on the FR500CJ when they become available. And seriously, if you haven't seen the video, check it out here. It's well worth it just to hear the this thing run down the strip.



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