Ford Has Something to Hide
12/19/16 | 04:08 PM
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Ford Has Something to Hide
Ford Has Something to Hide
The folks at Ford will be the first people to tell you about the newest Mustang, whatever it may be. However, Ford does that on its own schedule.
Read the rest on the TheMustangSource.com homepage. >>
The folks at Ford will be the first people to tell you about the newest Mustang, whatever it may be. However, Ford does that on its own schedule.
Read the rest on the TheMustangSource.com homepage. >>
12/20/16 | 08:21 AM
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Search Engine Leaks About the Next Ford Mustang GT500 Seem to Have Been Plugged
If they have their way, the folks at Ford will be the first people to tell you about the newest Mustang, whatever it may be. They’ll even announce which colors for it are the most popular and which engine has the highest take rate in a particular country. However, Ford does that on its own schedule.
Lately, Google searches have turned up links to Ford pages related to a new Mustang Shelby GT500. Our friends at Motor Authority report that last week, using the search term “‘GT00’ in Google would result in ‘2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 | The Cobra of Performance Cars’ as an item on Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] website. Clicking through the link would take you to the 2017 Mustang landing page, albeit with ‘shelbygt500’ in the URL.” Unfortunately, Ford caught on and has since made sure that that particular page doesn’t appear in the Google search results for the term “GT500.”
The blue oval did the same thing with the Google search term “GT500 convertible.” At one time, that produced a link to a Ford page with this as the heading: “2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Convertible | Amazing…“ Clicking that link took you to the 2017 Mustang page on the Ford site, with “shelbygt500convertible” in the URL. Not anymore. This is what we got when we Google-d “GT500 convertible”:
However, when we searched through Bing using the term “site:ford.com ford gt500,” one of the results that turned up was:
mustang-gt500-themustangsource-4
Bing-ing the droptop version resulted in this:
mustang-gt500-themustangsource-5
Don’t bother clicking the links, though. They just lead to the general 2017 Mustang page on the Ford site.
There are a variety of reasons why anything at all turns up on a search engine for the 2017 GT500. One is that the top-of-the-line Shelby Mustang is going to be a 2017 model instead of a 2018. That would explain why Ford has scrubbed info off of Google for now, although it’s odd that it’s left some sort of GT500 presence on Bing (Ford does know that people use Bing, too, right?) If that’s the case, we’re fine with the idea of the S550 GT500 coming sooner than expected. We’ll be the first ones to tell you that.
If they have their way, the folks at Ford will be the first people to tell you about the newest Mustang, whatever it may be. They’ll even announce which colors for it are the most popular and which engine has the highest take rate in a particular country. However, Ford does that on its own schedule.
Lately, Google searches have turned up links to Ford pages related to a new Mustang Shelby GT500. Our friends at Motor Authority report that last week, using the search term “‘GT00’ in Google would result in ‘2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 | The Cobra of Performance Cars’ as an item on Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] website. Clicking through the link would take you to the 2017 Mustang landing page, albeit with ‘shelbygt500’ in the URL.” Unfortunately, Ford caught on and has since made sure that that particular page doesn’t appear in the Google search results for the term “GT500.”
The blue oval did the same thing with the Google search term “GT500 convertible.” At one time, that produced a link to a Ford page with this as the heading: “2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 Convertible | Amazing…“ Clicking that link took you to the 2017 Mustang page on the Ford site, with “shelbygt500convertible” in the URL. Not anymore. This is what we got when we Google-d “GT500 convertible”:
However, when we searched through Bing using the term “site:ford.com ford gt500,” one of the results that turned up was:
mustang-gt500-themustangsource-4
Bing-ing the droptop version resulted in this:
mustang-gt500-themustangsource-5
Don’t bother clicking the links, though. They just lead to the general 2017 Mustang page on the Ford site.
There are a variety of reasons why anything at all turns up on a search engine for the 2017 GT500. One is that the top-of-the-line Shelby Mustang is going to be a 2017 model instead of a 2018. That would explain why Ford has scrubbed info off of Google for now, although it’s odd that it’s left some sort of GT500 presence on Bing (Ford does know that people use Bing, too, right?) If that’s the case, we’re fine with the idea of the S550 GT500 coming sooner than expected. We’ll be the first ones to tell you that.
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12/25/16 | 04:55 AM
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Yeah no changes except for colors with the 2018 GT350, there was some talk about a DCT but that dealer info leaked and squashed that.
A guy over at my FB GT350 hangout said he asked Hameedi about a GT500 and Hameedi said not right now so a GT500 is one of the best kept secrets or Hameedi wasn't yanking anybody's chain which seems plausible since there has never been two concurrent Shelby models and only a regular Mustang SE (Boss 302) and Shelby at the same time.
In any event there are some nice upgrades coming down the pipe for the EB and GT Mustangs with Magne-Ride (freaking awesome! Had my GT350 out at VIR this past fall and the car soaked up the FIA rumble strips like a BOSS!). Also interested to see what the Performance Pack II consists of? It would be real nice if it helped span the gap between the GT350 and the EB/GT cars - The 2016 base GT350 seemed like that was its purpose but who the hell ordered those unicorns????
Also I guess the Coyote is getting a hybrid DI/PI fuel system??? Not a fan of DI but the PI system is going to help a lot with potential coking and hopefully some trickle down stuff from the 5.2 shows up. A bump in compression and more aggressive timing will help narrow the gap between the Coyote and GM's LT engines. Plus with DI Ford might be able to scrap the MRC (or whatever they are calling it) since its not needed anymore.
Horsepower isn't an issue so much as a beefier torque curve would make the Coyote a better all around engine especially since the S550 is porky.
A guy over at my FB GT350 hangout said he asked Hameedi about a GT500 and Hameedi said not right now so a GT500 is one of the best kept secrets or Hameedi wasn't yanking anybody's chain which seems plausible since there has never been two concurrent Shelby models and only a regular Mustang SE (Boss 302) and Shelby at the same time.
In any event there are some nice upgrades coming down the pipe for the EB and GT Mustangs with Magne-Ride (freaking awesome! Had my GT350 out at VIR this past fall and the car soaked up the FIA rumble strips like a BOSS!). Also interested to see what the Performance Pack II consists of? It would be real nice if it helped span the gap between the GT350 and the EB/GT cars - The 2016 base GT350 seemed like that was its purpose but who the hell ordered those unicorns????
Also I guess the Coyote is getting a hybrid DI/PI fuel system??? Not a fan of DI but the PI system is going to help a lot with potential coking and hopefully some trickle down stuff from the 5.2 shows up. A bump in compression and more aggressive timing will help narrow the gap between the Coyote and GM's LT engines. Plus with DI Ford might be able to scrap the MRC (or whatever they are calling it) since its not needed anymore.
Horsepower isn't an issue so much as a beefier torque curve would make the Coyote a better all around engine especially since the S550 is porky.
