GtStang4

Needs to be smaller overall, 2015 front end is too long for my taste. Change angle of tail light, more vertical. Narrow rear end, let the aftermarket produce a wide body for those who like that look. Just my opinion and yes I have seen one in person. I am fine with the interior as is.

Twin Turbo

I like this headlamp treatment...........would work well on a facelifted S550

unnoticedtrails

Hey I know this photoshop!

Twin Turbo

Yours, I assume, Luke?

puma1552

The parking lights sitting immediately above the fog lights looks horrible IMO…that will definitely go when the cars get refreshed, I'd assume.

bob

Probably to much competition to go more than 5 years on a refresh. They will probably go a decade on the platform before evolving it or adopting something completely new (especially if hybrid drivetrains become the norm. I doubt the current car would work very well in that instance).


Sales of course will really dictate how fast a refresh rolls around. You can bet the farm that if the 6th gen Camaro posts strong sales Ford will be looking to do something as soon as MY 2017 and that's not even considering what the Dodge boys might have in the pipe as a proper pony car.

rhumb

My guess, and if Ford's smart, they're already anticipating the new Camaro and Challenger and working on a substantive refresh to meet and beat it's two main rivals.

Today's Ford seems very different from the somewhat lackadaisical "good enough" Ford or the aughts and before that just sort of bumbled through doing as little as possible to get the Mustang by, especially after the Camaro bowed out and before the Challenger bowed in. Competition improves the breed and the presence of the Camaro and Challenger clearly reveal that in the 2015 Mustang. Had those cars not been there, then its not unlikely the 2015 Stang would have followed the course of the various Fox-platform Stangs that dragged on for a quarter century before getting a true redesign and would have been merely some reskin of the S197 platform. I doubt we'd have the engine lineup that we have both today and for 2015.

TripleBlack14

I've been hearing rumors of a 'Cuda based on it's own dedicated platform. That could be a game changer if true.

JoeMidnight

you'll see... in the next few years. Ford will likely touch upon all of the little things that people would have liked to see refined, refined. This is one of the cars that you may say yay or nay initially...but you ALLL will love it once you it is massively populated around the globe!

White2010

Rework the front end.

Other than the front end I love everything about the S550 and were it not for the look of the front end I'd be driving a 2015 instead of the 2014 I bought.

I've never understood the idea that all the cars in a given car company's lineup must share the same design language on the front. You just can't put the same design language on every car and have it come out looking good on every body and that is precisely what Ford has tried to do. Even the current design language that Ford is using is already starting to look dated and unattractive to me. But that is another thread.

With respect to the 2015 Mustang, the whole front end just has bad symmetry. You have small headlamps with a large grill opening and that results in a large body color section between the headlamps and the fog lamp area. It just doesn't look right. I actually liked the concept front end that Saleen came up with much better. The headlamps and grill need to work in unison so that there is a certain degree of flow and natural symmetry. Instead this car looks as though they took the headlamps from one car and the grill from a completely different car.

Other than the front end look the car is absolutely beautiful and I look forward to seeing how it performs in the real world. If Ford puts a better looking front end on the car I would probably be in the market for a refresh model.

Just my two cents.

GT40 2

I would like a better manual trans.

Twin Turbo

Another good take on revised headlamps

Twin Turbo

This is still my favourite though..............one of the official early sketches. I know this is a slight caricature, but the wider fenders mean the headlamps don't appear to wrap around as much.

laserred38

I picture this as highly indicative of the coming GT350....

TripleBlack14

Evil. Like a Transformer. Gotta admit it does look cool.

mustangfan410

They should have done this interior instead of the one they went with. I still like it but I like this one better.

unnoticedtrails

Haha it is, Paul! I did it a long time ago before the 2015 design was revealed.