You can get a Mustang GT V8 for under 35K, why would you ever buy a 6 banger? 2015 Ford Mustang GT Coupe Starting Retail Price $32,100 Fuel Economy : 15 City 19 Hwy Engine : 5.0L V8
Its a turbo 4! All comes down to weight and power delivery... A friend has pretty much the same engine in his Mazdaspeed 6, pushing just under 400 HP (uncorrected at 5000 feet) for less than $5K in parts! I actually thought about getting one, but I remembered we have this thing called weather here in CO... Good power+RWD (or even FWD)+snow/ice for 5 months out of the year is a NO-GO! But being a game where we are fictionally buying a car to fictionally modify the car....
If you are buying an American MUSCLE CAR it MUST have a V8 or larger. The 4 & 6 bangers are tree hugger versions of a muscle car with all looks and none of the sound or power of the big V8's. They also get tree hugger high MPG unlike a true MUSCLE Car versions that get between 10 and maybe 20 MPG but will rip the tires off when you mash the gas.
I don't care about your weather and I would buy the V8 stang, bolt on a supercharger on it and destroy a Mazda Speed 6 every day of the week and it would cost about the same. Oh and the Ford V8 comes detuned down to 435 HP and 400 Tq stock. Just think what you would make with a Headers, Exhaust, Intake, larger TB and a performance tune before a Supercharger is added. Oh and not to mention all the upgrades would be a lot cheaper since the aftermarket is huge for the new Stang. If it all fictional weather does not matter. :lol:
Agreed! However with the new Muffstain's chassis, there isn't much "Muscle Car" left... They actually handle decently well, and having a lighter engine up front to even out the weight distribution helps it in that area more. I can see people taking the new version of the 2.3 up past 1000HP in the near future.
Hay Dave we are not going to see a big V8 pocking out of your hood at the Dragon are we? Supercharged of course!
Either way, in under 5 hours all but one of these selections will be gone for good, and the first round of AWD cars comes in... Its looking like the second cheapest car with the smallest engine is going to take it... Unless we get swamped by votes for the Camaro.
Last call! I'm adding up all the Mustang's votes, and getting ready to post the next round, so if you haven't voted do it now...
Allrighty then, the Mustang EcoBoost 2.3L turbo takes it (as I expected) with 9 votes. Then there was the TWO votes for the Hyundai. Its still a decent car, they shoulda just kept the turbo 4. And both V6 excuses of American Muscle got nothing! But that is well deserved, for an extra $100 a month they coulda been the real thing. This isn't the first time a turbo 2.3L has been in the engine bay of a mustang... There was the SVO back in the late '80s, and it turned out the 2.3 was faster than the 5.0GT sitting next to it in the showroom. I see the new one going a good ways with aftermarket support. On to the next round.... Would you rather, buy and build: A Subaru WRX sedan, which starts at $26,295, so if you want to add some option packages theres plenty of room... Or: An Audi A3 sedan. Starting at $29,900 these things start out expensive, and keeping the price under $35K is near impossible! Or: The Nissan Juke Nismo with AWD. The seats are pretty sweet, but $30,000 for something that looks like a frog? They are different though, and there has to be somebody out there making them fast... Or: Our first MINI! The Countryman S All-4, starts at $31,000 and we know how fast the base price jumps when we start adding things... There they are, what one of these AWD cars under $35K would you buy and build?
Dont forget to add what you would do with it... Build it for rallying, road racing, maybe that Ken Block gymkhana type sh------stuff... Or maybe you would just add a few mods and use it as a weather beater?
Audi A3: just to have a nice ride that I don't want to do anything too, other then tint the windows. Frog car doesn't look as bad in Black, WRX just doesn't do it for me. Almost took the Countryman to have a "bad weather" vehicle but so far this winter no bad weather here..
Of these 4 I would go with the CM (in that exact color). I don't really like sedans and the interior is cramped in the Juke. I would probably look at doing some suspension mods and possibly an engine tune.
Wrx. That juke is one ugly mother. Edit. If we are allowed to mod the crap out of it, I would take the mod funds, trade it back in on an STI. White with gold oz wheels. Light tint, turbo timer, done.
CM for me. Already own one that is the wife's car. If mine it would be black with black wheels and all chrome blacked out. Tint the windows and drive it as a daily.
Cant trade it, but upgrading a WRX to better than STi specs isn't that hard. The Juke isn't just ugly, you cant even get an AWD one with a real transmission! However we have no mod budget, just a cap on the price of the car... So you could in theory build your own Juke R out of it.