What are some improvements you want to see in the NEXT GEN redesign?
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How about they leave it blank like nearly every other car in existence. You are driving. You have no need for anything over there. Go take a look inside a race car and see how many gauges they have mounted over in that area. Zero. I'm sure they can make some sort of nice looking plastic or metal designed piece for that area to look pretty. Because that's all it should be used for. Put a little pony or something in the design of it or something if you must. To me, a nice brushed aluminum trim or something is all it needs and be done with it. Let's not get too fancy here. I had an ex-gf that drove a Dodge Caliber (piece of trash, her and the car), anyway it had like 3 different compartments over there and may have even had a cooler built into it or something stupid and unnecessary like that. Either way it had storage compartments galore over there and I found it totally unnecessary and ridiculous. Stuff an airbag in there, a glovebox underneath, and be done.
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Too risky ? A quick glance is not that risky. Do you not look around at the road signs to find exits off of road. People are too risk aware to enjoy new ideas. If a person is not suffering from tunnel vision, a slight movement of the head would be enough to get a quick visual image of a gauge reading. Just because an idea is different, does not make it a bad idea.
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Too risky ? A quick glance is not that risky. Do you not look around at the road signs to find exits off of road. People are too risk aware to enjoy new ideas. If a person is not suffering from tunnel vision, a slight movement of the head would be enough to get a quick visual image of a gauge reading. Just because an idea is different, does not make it a bad idea.
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I don't know that the battery under the drivers seat would give that much better weight distribution. I would say right behind the rear axle. Too far back and you can get a pendulum effect going hard around a corner. The lower the battery weight, the better the center of gravity. Why mount a battery just below the base of the windshield as in the current Mustang ?
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Here is a dumb one. My Audi had a light blue tint on the side mirrors. It took the glare off of lights that were pointing to high. It's just about all I miss from Audi. I would love that on a mustang.
#791
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I don't know that the battery under the drivers seat would give that much better weight distribution. I would say right behind the rear axle. Too far back and you can get a pendulum effect going hard around a corner. The lower the battery weight, the better the center of gravity. Why mount a battery just below the base of the windshield as in the current Mustang ?
Mounting it lower in the front would have most likely forced the battery into the wheel well and intruded into the passenger cell reducing the size of the foot area. Same with the trunk on the current car, the SRA takes up a fair amount of space and some people insist on having a spare tire so mounting the battery in the trunk would have meant a substantial for Mustang loss of space.
The S550 might not have these issues with its IRS but the Mustangs trunk is still a small one and might preclude the battery in the trunk even on the new car.
Ford could always go the hi-tech route and start using an LI battery to reduce size and weight, added bonus, it increases the probability of the car burning to the ground like certain Italian exotics seem to do of late.
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#793
The Fusion offers an auto dimming side mirror. Hopefully those come over to Mustang. They work great at night.
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#795
My fiancee's Mazda6 has the driver's side as well. At night, it dims quickly when someone has their lights in it. I've had no issues with it so far.
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All I ask is for the SVT GT350 or SVT GT500 to have an option where the buyer can have the option of having the battery in the trunk as the Cobra Jet is so equipped. Now that is not such a bad idea. I rest my case.
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Isn't going to happen as an option. Either they all will or they all won't.