uthatch said:
How do we know it's the same top as the last generation??? I really don't see how it could be, with it being a brand new car.
The only part of the convertible cage that is new, to the best of my knowledge, is the latch bar that attaches to the windshield, and the rail arms that connect that bar to the cage. The rest of the cage, the top shape and connections are the same. It's easy to get the sides of the vert top to fit the windows. It's easier and cheaper to adjust the shape of the windows to fit, than redesign, re-engineer and manufacture a new cage assembly.
Just because the Mustang is "All New" for 2005, that doesn't mean every component is. "All New" is misleading. There are plenty of parts on the new Mustang that are "borrowed" from other Ford products, some of which have been out for quite a while.
And, having said all that... I don't have that information from Ford direct. I didn't talk to them. I could, very well, be wrong about it being the SN95 top. The only reason I am 99.9% sure that it is, is because a client of mine manufacturs hydraulic systems for verts, among other things. They don't have a 2005 Mustang, but they have a 2005 cage and the top part of the windshield frame. They manufacture aftermarket stangs like Roush and Steeda, but on much smaller scale, no performance accessories, only cosmetics. They are working on a fully automatic retrofit kit for stangs. i.e., Hit a button and the top hydraulically releases from the windshield, a custom fabricated decklid opens, top goes down, decklid closes. They have them now for 99-04's, but needed the new cage assembly because of the fact that it connects differently to the windshield part. I WILL get pics of the cage on their floor. It's a bunch of metals rails, nothing exciting, but I will get it none-the-less.
