Ford Motor Company has found itself a winner with the reborn Mustang, leaning on the original, a classic in its day. While some models were full-blown snorting Mustangs, the cheaper ones were very mild. The first Mustangs in 1964 were powered by the Falcon six cylinder engine developing 101 BHP, hardly a sniff, let alone a snort.
However, the new 2015 Mustang has performance, as well as looks, but despite unveiling the car at the Detroit show, Ford did not reveal the power plant outputs.
2015 Mustang
It now looks like we’ll have to wait until the Mustang’s 50th birthday bonanza in April to finally have a proper grasp on the power, but Autoevolution has revealed new top speed figures in the interim.
Mustang chief engineer Dave Pericak in Detroit said that the drivetrain refinement led by the new model’s independent rear suspension has enabled engineers to loosen the electronic speed-limiter for both 3.7 liter V6 and 5.0 liter V8 engines, along with the new 2.3 liter EcoBoost four.
“The top speeds have been increased at every level. The V8 does 249 km/h, the V6 doing 195 km/h, and then the Ecoboost base doing 195 km/h, but the EcoBoost Track Pack will do 233 km/h.”
These represent marginal gains of 13 km/h and 11 km/h over the equivalent live-axle fifth-generation Mustang V6 and V8 models, but does mean there is a significant increase in power and torque with this sixth generation Mustang.
