Last night I headed over to my local Ford dealer to drive a 05 GT. When I got there not only was I disapointed because they only had a V6, I got into an arguement with one of the dealers.

Based on his facts:

- 05 V6 is *faster* then 04 GT
- New V6 dropped 60lbs off the old one (?)
- Mustang will NOT be mass-produced
- Ford is only making a limited ammount of cars until August next year (him trying to justify the markup after I told him I refuse to pay over MSRP on a mass-production vehicle).
- A special vehicle # would be assigned to each Mustang bought in the next few months making them "collectors" editions, which will in turn keep their resale value up.
- There's no 5-speed automatic, only a 4-speed.
- No IUP package, that's just what the GT's "have".
- V6 has 230ft. lbs torque not 240.

That's all I can remember for now, it was an interesting night for sure His defense was "don't believe everything you read". Oh well, I'll be back Saturday morning to drive a black 5-speed manual, just need to find someone else to go on the test drive with

 

...and don't believe everything you're told !!!

 

what a load of cobblers! The guy obviously doesn't know what he is talking about!

 

It always amazes me how little many sales people know about the cars, like whenever I talk to one, I just sit back and listen to the B.S. they spit out just to see how full of **** they really are. Makes me laugh sometimes, especially when I know more about a product that they are supposed to be selling to me. Then again, I'm the dork on the internet all day longer looking this stuff up when I should be working.

 

Rrrrrrrrright

 

Cool. My mustang will have a special number assigned to it and will be a collectors edition.

Maybe you should let this morons manager know what type of poo he has working for him.

 

Don't believe everything you read....from Ford

 

I know how you feel, Catman

 

Tell him to call me, and I'll straighten him out.

 

 

What I respected about one salesperson I met while inquiring about the '05 was she admitted that she doesn't know that much and Ford hadn't given her any literature at the time. I would rather hear that than get a pile of bs.

 

Man I am so glad my salesman is a Mustang fan and geaer head first, car salesman second. He drives an '03 Cobra with a Kenne Bell putting over 560hp to the wheels. Totally bad hiney.

 

All car salespeople should be car enthusiasts like us, and this problem would be greatly reduced.

 

Ask him if he's willing to bet a GT at invoice if he's wrong! And if not:

 

I agree! At least then they'll know what they're talking about rather than try to feed you pure **** leakage.

 

I was surprised also at the lack of knowledge they also had

watching them climb around the inside to unlock the truck.. I had to inform the dude its on the key chain..

and it went on from there, I was like talking about there other new models,, the 500 and the up coming Fusion,, dude was like whats that..

so look at it like this, they are there to make money.

I'll wait awhile for the hype to die down and get my house first.

 

BTW....I'm just curious (don't falmeme pls!) but I've been seeing ads about the Fusion a lot. What is it?

 

Towards the end of my visit I told him I only stopped by because the woman who answered the phone said there was a GT available to test drive. I realized she was probably mistaken on the way over, but went anyways.

The salesman started going off about how incompetant woman are and can't tell the difference between a mustang and a truck, I found it pretty ironic

 

I'd almost say that sales person didn't know the difference beween a hole in the wall and something else.

 

Yeah, I got a special vehicle # assigned to mine. I starts with 1ZVHT82H.