For anyone in Mass, Acton Ford does have a couple '05s there, and you can take them out.
My dad and I headed over in my 95 saturday afternoon. The salesman literally met us as we were walking towards the door, hadn't even gone into the building yet. He heard/saw mine when I was pulling in and said, "Looks about time for a new one." which I didnt like to much but whatever, we werent gonna buy anything anyways.
Ill just skip to the good part, the car is pretty damn nice. My first thought as I looked at it in preson is that its a mix between our cars, a 69, and a BMW, especially with the front wheels forward.
It feels rock solid and as expected the handling is heads and tails above the SN95s. In terms of power, it felt very similar to an '01 Bullitt that I have driven. The stock shifter doesn't even suck that bad. It also had the Shaker 1000 option, which is the premium 1000 watt sound package. Trust me, it THUMPS. We didn't beat on it that bad, I did nail an on-ramp in second and held second and third until close to redline, eventually got the car up to 115ish in fifth. It's power band is pretty high in the RPMs, which is a lot different then I am used to. Its still easy to smoke them, my dad left a nice little strip without trying too hard.
In terms of downsides: I was not sold on the instrument cluster at all. While more aesthetically pleasing, they definately chose form over function in my opinion. Our car didn't have the interior upgrade package, so I couldn't play with the "my color" option. The tach and speedo only use 1/2 of the circle they are in, so the numbers feel crunched in, where they shouldn't have to be.
The three rotary ac / fan / temp knob panel was also right behind the shifter so you have to reach around it in order to adjust settings.
The interior of the car is so well put together that I couldn't picture after market guages in there, unless they were done very tastefully. For example, an MSD Boost Retard, which looks fine in our cars, would throw off the whole look of the new car. We had a silver / brushed aluminum scheme, and I have to say that it was a little to "blah." I was hoping they had a porno red one but alas, it was not meant to be.
Thats all I can think of for now, anyone else have any '05 experiences?
My dad and I headed over in my 95 saturday afternoon. The salesman literally met us as we were walking towards the door, hadn't even gone into the building yet. He heard/saw mine when I was pulling in and said, "Looks about time for a new one." which I didnt like to much but whatever, we werent gonna buy anything anyways.
Ill just skip to the good part, the car is pretty damn nice. My first thought as I looked at it in preson is that its a mix between our cars, a 69, and a BMW, especially with the front wheels forward.
It feels rock solid and as expected the handling is heads and tails above the SN95s. In terms of power, it felt very similar to an '01 Bullitt that I have driven. The stock shifter doesn't even suck that bad. It also had the Shaker 1000 option, which is the premium 1000 watt sound package. Trust me, it THUMPS. We didn't beat on it that bad, I did nail an on-ramp in second and held second and third until close to redline, eventually got the car up to 115ish in fifth. It's power band is pretty high in the RPMs, which is a lot different then I am used to. Its still easy to smoke them, my dad left a nice little strip without trying too hard.
In terms of downsides: I was not sold on the instrument cluster at all. While more aesthetically pleasing, they definately chose form over function in my opinion. Our car didn't have the interior upgrade package, so I couldn't play with the "my color" option. The tach and speedo only use 1/2 of the circle they are in, so the numbers feel crunched in, where they shouldn't have to be.
The three rotary ac / fan / temp knob panel was also right behind the shifter so you have to reach around it in order to adjust settings.
The interior of the car is so well put together that I couldn't picture after market guages in there, unless they were done very tastefully. For example, an MSD Boost Retard, which looks fine in our cars, would throw off the whole look of the new car. We had a silver / brushed aluminum scheme, and I have to say that it was a little to "blah." I was hoping they had a porno red one but alas, it was not meant to be.
Thats all I can think of for now, anyone else have any '05 experiences?
