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The era of the cheap, crude LX/GT with roller cam 225hp 302s right off the showroom floor is gone. We were lucky that we got to enjoy that era and that Ford saw fit to make them in the first place.
Those mustangs didn't handle particularly well but they would sure move when when you bolted on heads and cams and intakes and blowers and nitrous.
In the earlier days of Dfwstangs (RIP) straight line power was king and the Mustang delivered - as did the LS1. There were some epic trash talking threads between the Mustang and LS1 camps.
Today the cost, the complexity, and the weight of new cars keeps climbing because of more technology, more gadgets, and more government regulations. It's nice if you are flush enough to be able to afford one of them, but the pool of prospective buyers shrinks as the cost increases.
As much as we may want them to - manufacturers have no reason to spend money to produce inexpensive, stripped down cars. Such cars are not as profitable as loaded cars, and would be a liability for them warranty wise given how they'd be used (Mustang T5s anyone?). They'd rather sell expensive off road drag packages with disclaimers of liability.
It may all be moot anyway - manufacturers are making plans to discontinue producing sedans. They want to produce more profitable SUVs and pickups and EVs.
Broke gear heads will find a way to feed their need for speed - it just won't be with anything new off the show room floor.
Those mustangs didn't handle particularly well but they would sure move when when you bolted on heads and cams and intakes and blowers and nitrous.
In the earlier days of Dfwstangs (RIP) straight line power was king and the Mustang delivered - as did the LS1. There were some epic trash talking threads between the Mustang and LS1 camps.
Today the cost, the complexity, and the weight of new cars keeps climbing because of more technology, more gadgets, and more government regulations. It's nice if you are flush enough to be able to afford one of them, but the pool of prospective buyers shrinks as the cost increases.
As much as we may want them to - manufacturers have no reason to spend money to produce inexpensive, stripped down cars. Such cars are not as profitable as loaded cars, and would be a liability for them warranty wise given how they'd be used (Mustang T5s anyone?). They'd rather sell expensive off road drag packages with disclaimers of liability.
It may all be moot anyway - manufacturers are making plans to discontinue producing sedans. They want to produce more profitable SUVs and pickups and EVs.
Broke gear heads will find a way to feed their need for speed - it just won't be with anything new off the show room floor.
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