What combo do you mean? A Track Pack with navigation? I'll look for one and post a price in a short while.

 

Are the order guides out for MY11?

 

Not yet. Five Oh Brian has been playing around in CONCEPTS a lot of late, though.

 

I was curious about the particular car you had just sold, for comparison purposes.

 

I keep checking about 10 times a day to see if Ford loaded the order guide pdf file but not yet. Once its out, I'll post it up in this thread and I will start another thread for others to see it. If I can't do it myself (I'm selling cars all day but do have a few minutes during the day to hop on here), Brian can do it for us as well. Once its available it will be posted!!!

 

Actually the car that was just sold was a track pack with HIDs, comfort group, and security group and premium interior trim (cashmere stripe).

 

Thanks for doing this!

I am personally interested in knowing (in addition to the performance options) if Ford has upgraded the cloth seat fabric for the '11s. I understand the color choices are the unchanged, but I'm hoping the fabric will look less like it belongs in a fleet vehicle.

It also appears in a couple of interior pics that the '11s no longer have contrast stitching on the leather seats and steering wheel, at least on the non-Premier Trim cars.

 

We'll find out eventually. Once I do have pics, I'll try and scan the brochure I get, and also any other pictures I get from Ford.

 

The cloth seats in my 07 GT don't look like they're from a fleet vehicle. They have the ponies printed on all of the cloth and it feels rather comfortable. Most of the rental cars I've driven had leather seats anyhow

 

The cloth seats in your '07 IMO are far nicer than those in the '10s, which look like inexpensive corduroy to me.

 

Wow, I'm kind of surprised. The 2010 GT Deluxe starts at $28k MSRP and doesn't have a power driver's seat or the Shaker 500. Cheap feeling cloth seats would really put me off especially at that price. Do you have any pics of those seats?

 

Hey Jim, did you definitely want cloth? If not, get a deluxe GT and get "take-off" leather seat covers. You can get them for around $300 or less from any of the online takeoff parts shops.

 

Not really sure if it's relevant to this thread, but do we know if the 6-speed automatic transmission for the GT includes a SelectShift feature (or is that something we'll find out when the order guides are released)?

 

I'm pretty sure from the pictures that were released it doesn't have that capability. The 2011 V6 didn't either.

 

That seems rather illogical given that the Camaro and Challenger have manual shift modes.

 

It's not something I'd use anyhow, the manumatics don't respond very quickly and knowing Ford they'd use the wrong convention. I hate how non of the OEMs can come up with a single standard:

forward = downshift
backward = upshift

or for the paddles:
left = downshift
right = upshift

Automated manuals are a lot better since they don't have a torque converter, but AFAIK only Ferrari has it tuned so you can crack downshifts in milliseconds.

 

IIRC that is what Infiniti uses on the G37 models.

 

The Europeans use the same paddle shifter config, but BMW and VW uses the same "sequential" convention that the Americans use for the manumatics (forward = upshift, backwards = downshift). Porsche and Mazda use the correct convention for the sequential.

 

This is exactly why I got leather rather than cloth in my 2010. I miss the ponies on cloth seats of my traded-in '07!

 

The transmission itself does support SelectShift but Ford chose not to employ it at this time. Lines have to be drawn somewhere or the Mustang would get to be too expensive if they included everything that they could include.