To match up with my carbonized grey color choice. Thanks uncle.
I'm bummed that I won't be getting a bad-squatch or base-squatch. I had 35 inch Baja Claws on a base JK and went through 16-20" of snow. It takes caution, skill, and patience that a manufacturer just can't trust the gen pop to possess for warranty purposes, haha.
I was a v8 sycophant prior to buying my 2019 F-150 with either the 2. 7 or 3.5. I chose the 2.7 because it was more than enough and actually much better than the chevy 327, 5.3 liter it replaced, and I get 23-24 mpg consistently. need to move on past the whole v8 thing. Although i do have a Jaguar XF with the 4.2 V8 and appreciate the growl, it;s a new dawn with these ecoboosts.
Competition between automakers is ultimately the best thing for us, the consumers. I bet no one really knows what will be out there in 5 to ten years between the new technology and the automakers trying to one up each other. But it all takes time.
Then why does Ford waste so much time on the Mustang V8s?
Other than you get more power with a smaller turbo engine including more torque down low.
Because there is a HUGE market for v8 sports cars. There isnāt a huge market for v8 anything else. Even now. Less than 30,000 v8 mustangs were sold last year.
If that thing is reliable, good for it. There are a lot more moving parts and it's a very heavy vehicle (Bronco looking at over 5000 lbs with the 35s) for a 2.3 liter 4 cylinder. I can tell you one thing, the 5.0 is just solid at this point. This is my 6th year with my 2015 Mustang (I preordered it on launch). This thing just works and works under ZERO strain for 6 years no matter what I do or how hard I drive it (hard). I have literally done nothing to it other than oil changes (full synthetic only one time per year) and putting premium gas in. Nothing else, no maintenance. Everytime I bring it in for the oil change they come back telling me wow, you're really keeping this car up well. Little do they know that I did absolutely nothing. The one thing I will say the current 5.0 has given me that none of my previous cars gave me is just reassurance. I never worry about the car. It has effortless power, it always just starts and performs the same as when I got it. Ive had a lot of cars and trucks, thats high praise. They can put the 5.0 into the Bronco easy. They put it into $30000 cars. And it would result in much lower strain on the motor with all that weight. Its a no brainer for me. Like I said. Lets see what FCA does.
