Some 2010 Love

TT5.0ca said:

Secret...I always hated the 4.6. Gas sucker, no power. I've had 4 mustangs and was waiting on the to finally ditch the boat anchor. SC a Coyote and it's 600 horse easy, instead of scattering internals all over the road at 450 on an sc 3v.

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Gas sucker.....mid/high teens in the city and mid/high-20's on the highway isn't so bad and is pretty much the same mileage the preceding Coyote's are getting?

No Power....315hp? Faster than all prior Mustang GT models before it. Its funny nobody really complained when the high end models like the '03 Mach 1 and '99/'01 Cobra's made the same amount of power, less torque and ran slower times....yet give the next generation, lower end GT, the last generations high end power levels and it was unacceptable? Let's be honest....people will always want more power from the GT model, but nobody really griped about it until news of the Coyote was on the horizon.

I'm not gonna try to debate that a mod for mod, a 3V would stand a snowballs chance against a Coyote, because we all know that isn't true.....simply that when you add up the dollars and sense, they can be made pretty comparable.

Yes, supercharge the Coyote and it'll reward you with higher power levels and will handle more of it to boot....but this wasn't a mod for mod comparison. Simply stating that Coyote power levels could easily be duplicated (or exceeded) quite easily and reliably on the earlier modular. A blown 4.6L 3V will hurt a stock Coyote's feeling all day long and when you consider the nose dive in value that the '10's took in the used car market when the Coyote cars hit the streets. You can just about buy a 2010 and blow it, for the same price as you can pick yourself up a stock '11-up for?

Remember....these are essentially the exact same cars, save for the power plant and manual transmission. Quite frankly, I'd prefer the tried and true TR3650 5-speed to the known problematic Chinese made MT-82 6-speed the '11-up cars are saddles with.