DcDisturbed947 said:
Is anybody else disappointed with the 05s? For like 2 years now I've been looking at pictures and just waiting for the day they came out thinking they looked badass (in pictures) and now I see them everywhere and they're pretty ugly.
I mean, don't even get me started with the tail lights,
they are sooo ugly.
And the car is so high up off the ground, and the roof is way too high too.
I don't know I'm just really dissapointed, does anybody else feel that way?
I haven't posted on here in a long time but I got on here today to say the same thing. While driving into work I saw a huge billboard and I can honestly say I'm not feeling the '05. It's like a caricature of a Mustang. It suffers from the same swollen, brutish proportions that destroyed the new Shelby Cobra prototype in my mind.
I bought one of the first '99s in the country, it was by accident, I went to get my '96 fixed and in the waiting room someone told me the '99s had arrived that very day. I was stunned. I had to have it and bought it without any money to my name and no job. I just had to have it, had to make it work.
Now with plenty of money and a great job I can't be bothered to even check one out. I live around the corner from a Ford dealership and one is sitting on the sidewalk desperately seeking attention. Even in red, it looks bad. I wouldn't have thought it possible for a red mustang to not thrill me.
As soon as I change the front spoiler on my 99, I'm going to consider it a masterpiece I hope to upgrade until it's no longer safe to drive on the streets.
Unless Ford can learn to streamline their nostalgic ambitions I'm gonna keep my '99 and maybe pick up a *gasp* family car for day to day stuff.
The irony is, when it was being shown as a prototype, I was excited, but even then the front end was too harsh for me. They toned it down on the finally product but it doesn't speak to me.
The capper was seeing the Saleen '05.... Waste of time. The new stang is so stylized, so brutish that there isn't much room for that trademark Saleen fantasy meets autobahn ambition look.
The Steeda looks ok but the Roush suffers the same fate as the Saleen.
I'm hoping the aftermarket gets creative and offers much more radical body kits than previous models. I'd like to see a return to the coachmaking days and get that better engine and upgraded suspension in a sexy new dress.
