After reading this order guide carefully, I am utterly amazed. If you want the 3.55 rear end on a stick GT... you gotta pay for 'em! Yeppir, optional. You're kidding me right?

So I got to wondering. Why would Ford do this? I could only come up with two reasons.

1. To raise the EPA highway mileage (by what? .5 mgp???) so their 'fleet average' would increase.

2. A slick way to raise the price of a GT without raising the price. Who here among us would knowingly take an '07 GT with 3.31 gears when the two previous model years (with manual transmissions) had 3.55's?

Am I being a putz? Somebody tell me I'm a whiner... And lastly, what dealer with half a brain would place an order for a stick GT without bumping up the 3.31 to 3.55??? Who?

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pitpup @ March 13, 2006, 10:36 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
After reading this order guide carefully, I am utterly amazed. If you want the 3.55 rear end on a stick GT... you gotta pay for 'em! Yeppir, optional. You're kidding me right?

So I got to wondering. Why would Ford do this? I could only come up with two reasons.

1. To raise the EPA highway mileage (by what? .5 mgp???) so their 'fleet average' would increase.

2. A slick way to raise the price of a GT without raising the price. Who here among us would knowingly take an '07 GT with 3.31 gears when the two previous model years (with manual transmissions) had 3.55's?

Am I being a putz? Somebody tell me I'm a whiner... And lastly, what dealer with half a brain would place an order for a stick GT without bumping up the 3.31 to 3.55??? Who?

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Since I'm not a gearhead... which gear ratios are better? And which ones are coming stock in the 2007 versus what comes stock in a 2006?

 

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Reading it wrong

3.31s for Auto/Manual V6 + Auto GT

3.55 for Manual GT

They are standard.

It's been this way since the 05

 

Yeah, there is no option for a manual GT.

 

Boomer, re-read my first post, now with cut and paste proof.

 

I don't know, the dealer guide states that the 3.31 gear is standard across ALL Mustang trim levels for 2007 and there is an order code for the 3.55 gear. I think it IS optional, and not standard, on GT manual for 07MY.

 

there are no optional codes

3.31 for automatic only
3.55 for standard only

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dustindu4 @ March 13, 2006, 11:28 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
there are no optional codes

3.31 for automatic only
3.55 for standard only
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Page 5, under the Engine section, Code 455

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(pitpup @ March 13, 2006, 10:32 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Page 5, under the Engine section, Code 455
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And page 6.

We need the pricing guide.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Boomer @ March 13, 2006, 9:41 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
?
Reading it wrong

3.31s for Auto/Manual V6 + Auto GT

3.55 for Manual GT

They are standard.

It's been this way since the 05
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Boomer, you really ought to read what you post. Your attachment states the 3.55 is optional on the manual GT.

 

Sure does like look it's now optional for the GT Manual Transmission only. Why else would there be a separate order code? It's order code 455.

However, if you look at page 4, it does not state that the 3.31 is standard on the GT manual ???

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(BLT2RUN @ March 13, 2006, 10:48 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Sure does like look it's now optional for the GT Manual Transmission only. Why else would there be a separate order code? It's order code 455.

However, if you look at page 4, it does not state that the 3.31 is standard on the GT manual ???

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Yeah, it's very confusing but considering they have a separate code, I believe it is indeed optional.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TomServo92 @ March 13, 2006, 10:40 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Boomer, you really ought to read what you post. Your attachment states the 3.55 is optional on the manual GT.
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Lol, I was thinking the same thing. Oh well we all do that.


But interesting indeed that its an option now.

 

Personally - I don't they changed anything from the '05/'06 transmission selections. I wish that 4.10 was an option [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif[/img]

 

its a "nice thought' to think that optional gears would be available like 3:90's 4:10's, etc but IMO the 5 speed has and will continue to have the 3:55

 

maybe it is optional since most of us are swapping out the gears anyway. 4.10's from factory would have been a sweet option.

 

Just because there is a code for 3.55 and 3.31, the 3.31 is locked to automatic and 3.55 is locked to manual

just like you can't get ICAP without getting IUP

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(adrenalin @ March 13, 2006, 12:26 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
maybe it is optional since most of us are swapping out the gears anyway. 4.10's from factory would have been a sweet option.
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Agreed, the 410's are a sweet mod for sure, but to say that most of us are swapping them out, seems to me to be an overstatement,,, I think just the opposite is true, I think most of us still have the 355 orig gearset. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif[/img]

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dustindu4 @ March 13, 2006, 11:47 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Just because there is a code for 3.55 and 3.31, the 3.31 is locked to automatic and 3.55 is locked to manual

just like you can't get ICAP without getting IUP
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AFAIK, there isn't a code for 3.31s. Also, I don't think your example is relevant since both ICAP and IUP are options and the manual tranny is standard equipment. If the 3.55s are locked to the manual tranny, it wouldn't have a separate code since it would also be standard equipment.

 

I see what you guys are saying...

But from the pic I posted,
its weird because under the 'standard' 3.31s... manual GT is not found under that list. Only GT AUTO, and V6 manual/auto.

The way I see it, its a mistake, and it would be like all other years.
I can't see them stepping back, and its not seen in any of the 'new changes for 07'