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Tuesday, August 02, 2005  

 2005 Nissan 350Z Roadster vs 2005 Ford Mustang GT Convertible
 

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/coupe/112_0506_ford_nissan/

Motor Trend, June 2005

IMHO, there is a bit too much hype surrounding the Mustang. The convertible is just starting to flex on people now that they have a few miles on them. It's miles ahead of the obsolete and ancient SN95, but it's still not up to world class standards. The Shelby 'vert will be even worse: weighing in at just over 4000 pounds and with almost 58% of it's weight on it's nose, it will be the porkiest Mustang ever.  


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 Is the Ford Hurricane engine actually dead?
 

Ford has a problem - the "mod engine" family is dated, the Hurricane engine replacement has apparently run into troubles (nothing has been reported in the press, but it's well known something happened). If the Hurricane is still alive, or if some other new engine is being developed, chances are (given the economic state of Ford these days)  it's been farmed out to be developed at an engineering company like this one. There are dozens of companies like this in the Detroit area... this particular company is just one possibility.

This is an interesting site... good reading... and they recently did some excellent work on the Jaguar diesel engine.

USA: Independent powertrain developer expands test facilities in Michigan

Here is a little gem from the FEV home page:
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