lol well im glad the sober ones understood what i meant by the 5.0's sounding better. I meant engine sound, IE exhaust, how ones engine sounds. Not how the numbers sound ... sigh
, some people love the sound of a 4.6 some dont, im one of the dont's . Im also gonna say that a V6 is an extremely nice sound if you set your biased opinions aside.
Apparently i came off as a bit of a ford hater? lol? Im on a ford mustang message board for like a year now, and 2 of my 3 cars have been mustangs, im the first member of my family to own anything other than a ford. I'd like to consider it constructive criticism not hate. That being said:
I'm going to be completely honest, the Mustang does not handle well. It doesn't have the greatest weight distribution, its heavy, its gas mileage is so-so at best, it has many shortcomings. However, nothing is better than a mustang. The way it sounds is uncompareable to any other car, not to mention the way one feels while driving one. That and the feeling of killing most of the cars you line up against, especially when you know they paid 4 times as much, plus the billions of other pros of the car I didn't mention. Anyways, my point is the Mustang has always been the drag racers car, and as a drag racer you should be customizing the car to your likeing. Ford should have a drag option (such as boss) where you basically start out with the body, and then choose whatever engine and drivetrain you want. Like have all their engines at your disposal. (Mustang is definately coming back into my waiting garage as soon as i have enough money to afford a GT)
If they made the GT specifically ahve a 6.5 or 7.1 or whatever size this topic is about, it would really only be suited to drag racing, handling would plummet and so would mileage. The 4.6/5.0 is a well rounded engine, not too heavy that you lose mileage, lots of power, easy to mod and light enough to give you decent handling.
Gas is nearly a dollar a liter for 87 octane. It would be way too expensive to have a 2005 428 mustang that requires 100+ octane as a daily driver. (this is somewhat hypocritical since i (me and the oldman) have a 1968 Cougar GT (428) with increased compression etc. that is the weekend driver)