flynavy

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.

2 Go Snake

No, blank is too dull looking. Maybe they could put a backlit image of the running Mustang logo above the glove box.

flynavy

Yeah that's fine. But something functional as far as any type of display things for the driver to use is just too risky to even expect someone to use.

2 Go Snake

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.

flynavy

You must be insane. I'm not going to look over to the passenger dashboard to monitor anything my car is doing. I barely look at the screen of my nav unit in the console much less look over to the passenger airbag area to look at any type of gauge or monitor. No **** way. You can have fun running off the road or rear ending another car. I'll keep my 2012 GT with its plain passenger dashboard. I don't know where you live but exit signs are generally in front of cars here and are usually visible from out the windshield above the road surface. If you have to look to the passenger side to see an exit sign, you've already missed it. I'd also venture to say probaby 1% Of cars on this forum are so highly modified and driven so hard that you need gauges everywhere to monitor all of this. Look at race car designs. They don't mount gauges all the way over there. Race cars are purely about function. So why would you want something different?

laserred38

Can we get a :banhammer: already? Enough of this bullsh*t.

Boomer

We should totally have gauges by the rear window.
I can check my blindspot and oil temp at the same time.
It would save SO much time!

Overboost

Put the battery under the drivers seat. Better weight distribution.

2 Go Snake

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 ?

Mr. V

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.

bob

It sits inside the wheelbase for better protections and doesn't intrude into the passenger cell. The battery's location does still provide some benefit to handling since it is closer to the center of the car even if it is up high.

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.

bob

Pfft.... In the console, that way its right smack in the middle of the car!

Overboost

The Fusion offers an auto dimming side mirror. Hopefully those come over to Mustang. They work great at night.

bob

Man, I hope they work better than the auto-dimming mirror on my car. It only seems to dim when it wants to, not when I need it to.

Overboost

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.

Mr. V

That would be even more amazing. My eyes are very light sensitive.

2 Go Snake

Where is the battery placed in the Cobra Jet Mustang drag cars ?

bob

In the trunk but CJ's don't have to carry luggage or groceries or even a spare.

Take for example how much space the Shaker 1000 subs take up in the trunk of the S-197.

2 Go Snake

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.

FordBlueHeart

Isn't going to happen as an option. Either they all will or they all won't.