My Brother is doom saying liberal weenie that believes that Mustangs should be taken off the road and that I will regret getting one when gas goes to $5.00 per gallon or more. To him the Mustang is a symbol of everything wrong with America, funny I think it's a symbol of everything right with America, God Bless the Mustangers!

Can the Mustang be turned or “Flashed” for much better gas mileage if needed?

Sorry for the personal rant but I know your folks can help.

 

If gas goes to $5, having a Mustang will be the least of my worries. Keeping the house warm will be a bit expensive. As the gas prices go, so follows every other fuel price.

 

Are you actually serious??....

The MUSTANG is the symbol he is speaking of?....

Does he NOT see the the flipping SUVs out on the road today being driven as everyday cars? Hummers?....

Chrysler 300, Dodge Magnum, Corvettes...... yeah, they are all tea totallers when it comes to gas mileage....

I take it he rides a bike to work each day?....

 

My thoughts exactly. Oil goes into every thing you buy in one form or another seeing as how every industry uses it in some form to either create or transport their product. If gas were at $5.00 a gallon we would probably be more worried about getting food on the table than driving our Mustangs...although a Mustang is a close second to food

This reminds me of something funny. Yesterday I saw a Chevy SUBURBAN with liberal stickers all over it about hating Bush and taking up the whole rear window was a website about buying electric cars to save the environment. Sometimes I don't know whether to laugh at how mislead liberals are or fear for my country if they ever take the White House.

"The problem with our liberal friends is just that they know so much that just isn't so."
-Ronald Regan

 

Five dollar gas will have an effect far worse than most electric car toting people think. I challenge anyone to come up with something that a normal person uses, that doesn't get transported on a truck at least once.....

 

You won't see any significant mpg increase with retuning, it's a V-8. The V6 only gets a couple more mpg.

Your driving habits will make the biggest impact on what kind of miliage you get. Keeping it tuned with a clean air filter helps a ton also.

I don't mind paying a premium for the enjoyment I get having gobs of power. Only getting 7 less MPG than my 03 civic in city driving. So thats not so bad.

 

Actually I think the Mustang gets pretty good gas mileage, anything that doesn't have a gas guzzler tax is okay in my book when it comes to fuel consumption.

 

And, if environmental friendliness is important:

"In addition to offering more power and improved efficiency, Mustang’s engines will meet Ultra Low-Emission Vehicle II (ULEV II) standards, which govern evaporative and tailpipe emissions. This makes the new Mustang a big part of Ford’s growing environmental success story. On average, the 2005 fleet of Ford Mustangs will emit 57 percent less smog-forming pollution than the 2004 model year fleet."


Sounds like a success story, not a villain...

 

Just out of curiousity, what does he drive?

 

heheh, I bet your brother is just jealous.

 

He could move to a communist country, where everybody drives a green Yugo.

 

This thread is cool as long as no political bickering breaks out.

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Then hold me back because I'm about to go off on the gun toting hick right wing nutjobs destroying our economy.

 

Yes but Reagan also told Ed Asner, "What does an actor know about politics?"

 

Then hold me back because I'm about to go off on the gun toting hick right wing nutjobs destroying our economy. [/b][/quote]
I guess you like playing with fire.

 

Only to burn others.

 

Most misguided liberals that I know, drive big SUV's go figure! :crazy:

 

Speaking of those clean enviromentally friendly electric cars (hybrids aside)... where does the electric come from? Usually coal or oil burning power plants that have more relaxed pollution standards than cars do.

 

I have seen a large SUV that had a custom license plate that said treehugger, the letters were played with to make it fit on the plate. I couldn't help but laugh.

 

Environmentalists are the ones who drive Prius' and eat tofu and what not. I'm a Progressive for different reasons than the environment.