V8 POWER!!! 2024 Ford Mustang GT Review

Aug 3, 2023

V8 POWER!!! 2024 Ford Mustang GT Review

2024 Ford Mustang GT review by The Straight Pipes. The Ford Mustang GT is putting down 486 horsepower and 418 lb-ft of torque from a 5L V8. At $56,635 USD, would you take it over the Chevy Camaro SS that doesn’t exist anymore or the Dodge Challenger 392 that also doesn’t exist anymore?

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2.28 -> foreign

7.2 -> [Music]

24.56 -> [Music]

33.68 -> Mustang GT with launch control

36.18 -> [Music]

41.219 -> oh

51.32 -> [Music]

53.36 -> yeah pretty good still pretty decently

55.98 -> fast horsepower and torque 486

59.039 -> horsepower 418 pound-feated Torque from

62.1 -> a 5 liter V8

65.519 -> new Mustang only comes manual in the V8

69.18 -> yes that's right you can't get it in the

70.979 -> EcoBoost that we drove yesterday but you

72.659 -> can also get the 10-speed Auto in this

74.22 -> V8 yep and you can get the drift brake

76.56 -> which we talked about in our EcoBoost

78 -> review so definitely watch that video as

79.619 -> well for more detail on the drift break

81.36 -> okay here's my theory of the new 7th gen

83.46 -> Mustang go for it it is pretty much the

86.159 -> same feeling as the old Mustang however

88.5 -> a lot pointier sharper looks that kind

91.74 -> of sometimes looks from like a Camaro

93.78 -> and then turns into a Mustang when you

95.7 -> get to the front

99.659 -> slightly disagree with you I do feel

101.939 -> that it is better than the last gen in

104.28 -> terms of feel driving and all a bunch of

106.38 -> little things and yes the biggest thing

108.24 -> would be the looks though okay so what

110.1 -> does feel the same power delivery like

111.72 -> come on so this engine has been

113.579 -> retweaked and yes now we have dual

115.74 -> throttle bodies and they come in the air

118.02 -> comes in through the nostrils in the

119.7 -> grill yes and the exhaust manifold has

121.799 -> been changed as well as the oil pan

123.78 -> other than that I believe it's the same

125.579 -> engine as the last generation so they

127.68 -> kind of just massaged it and they give

129.78 -> you basically like bullet horsepower

131.64 -> from the previous generation slightly

134.16 -> kind of like Mach 1 specs but the Mach 1

136.86 -> of this generation is equivalent to the

138.959 -> Dark Horse which sits above the GT and

141.42 -> have more handling and stuff and a bit

143.099 -> more power yes I bet you they just redid

145.5 -> it so that the motor will be something

147.18 -> that they can work from for the next 14

149.04 -> years because it's probably going to be

150.42 -> around for like a while as the last V8

153.3 -> exactly because the Camaro and

154.68 -> Challenger are dead the Camaro is only

156.42 -> half dead it lives through this car okay

159.84 -> let's let's get to how it lives through

161.58 -> this car the rear shoulders on this car

163.56 -> yeah okay certain but okay they look

165.9 -> camaroy but they wanted to make the

167.819 -> whole Mustang Point here we talked to

169.62 -> the designer it's like we wanted to make

170.94 -> it sharper and pointier and like edgier

172.68 -> everywhere and that it does look cool

175.56 -> and it does look Mustang yes and the GT

177.9 -> does look much cooler than the EcoBoost

180.18 -> although the EcoBoost does look really

181.98 -> clean and simple especially on the front

183.54 -> end yeah you get some heat extractors in

185.4 -> the hood for the GT and then you also

187.379 -> get slightly different like Grill and

189.42 -> everything it's just slightly different

190.379 -> shapes it looks more muscly yeah yeah

192.18 -> more muscly speaking of muscley they

194.099 -> told us that the intakes kind of the

195.9 -> Scoops in the grill are representative

198.12 -> of a bodybuilder lifting weights not the

200.64 -> scoops of the grill the part that goes

201.9 -> around and up yes on the sides around

204.18 -> the into Grill yeah so it's a

206.04 -> bodybuilder lifting weights yeah which I

208.8 -> mean it kind of does look like that once

210.18 -> they tell you that and then these are my

211.5 -> favorite wheels of all the Mustangs of

213.48 -> this gen so far they're like a cool five

215.28 -> spoke star yeah I really like these

217.379 -> wheels that they look great in person it

219.3 -> will be the Continental recommended tire

220.739 -> for the new Mustang GT the Continental

223.14 -> extreme contact sport O2 all right yo

225.9 -> how's the handling how's the power

227.34 -> through these I don't know somewhere in

229.2 -> California roads uh it is great now it

232.14 -> is noticeably heavier in the front end

234.239 -> compared to the EcoBoost I kind of liked

236.22 -> how Nimble the front end felt on that

238.14 -> but this does feel great we do have the

240 -> magneride dampers which are optional on

242.04 -> this one and then we also have automatic

244.14 -> rev matching which currently I'm leaving

246.48 -> on although the heel toe position on the

248.519 -> pedals is actually really really good

250.08 -> and we do still have this Mt 82 from the

253.739 -> last generation I know it's not

255.06 -> everybody's favorite it is not my

256.739 -> favorite unfortunately the Tremec only

259.019 -> gets carried over into the Dark Horse

261.12 -> although I do like this with the shifter

264 -> style compared to the Challenger that we

265.8 -> just had the 392. and we have a hard

268.02 -> button we can program a start button to

270.24 -> do your auto rev match on and on having

272.1 -> this customizable button is really

274.08 -> really nice you can set it to launch

275.52 -> control on a bunch of things but having

276.84 -> it for rev match is kind of perfect

278.16 -> because now I can just turn it off heel

279.6 -> toe nail it and then send it

281.94 -> and this car does pull like the power is

284.52 -> very appropriate feels better than the

286.08 -> 392 last call it's challenging exactly

289.08 -> because it doesn't have all that extra

290.22 -> weight uh this does also have a better

292.02 -> steering ratio than the previous

293.759 -> generation and it is noticeably

295.199 -> different especially in the EcoBoost

297.479 -> with that lighter front end and then we

299.22 -> also have the GT performance pack on

300.96 -> here so we have like a torsion rear diff

302.759 -> with a better axle ratio and overall I

305.94 -> mean this thing does feel great it you

308.22 -> get a bunch of different suspension

309.84 -> components and stuff that are updated on

311.28 -> this package so like I like driving this

313.32 -> especially out here

315.84 -> how much more do you like it than like a

318.24 -> last gen GT for driving because we're

320.58 -> driving I feel like it's like a little

322.62 -> better I it's an it's a very noticeable

325.08 -> difference it has turns but for power

327.3 -> it's very similar man we don't have that

328.86 -> many turns in Toronto yeah so like we

330.78 -> don't do much turning no but noticeably

333 -> out here oh here yeah yeah it's like it

335.58 -> is a very nice difference and I think

337.44 -> they did a great job with the chassis on

338.94 -> this generation like yes they said that

340.62 -> they had a bunch of hard points and

341.94 -> things that they couldn't change so it's

343.74 -> kind of like a generation 6.5

345.62 -> realistically but the changes are enough

349.02 -> to differentiate this for me I think the

351.36 -> Gap in looks I think is the biggest

353.94 -> thing that moved it to a new Full gen

356.1 -> what it would have been sick is modeling

358.68 -> it after the fox body and doing a retro

360.84 -> Fox body so like if 2005 was based off

363.12 -> of Fox Body instead of uh 67 exactly so

366.18 -> maybe we'll get that with the 8th gen

367.86 -> hopefully because we do have Fox body

369.3 -> gauges in here which are super sick and

371.88 -> I have a fox body shout out my fox buddy

373.86 -> on my shirt and by the way we do

375.36 -> actually sell these shirts I think still

376.74 -> on our store so if you do want to buy

378.12 -> one of them take them off the store we

379.44 -> don't we don't sell shirts we're not a

381 -> shirt selling thing so then this also

383.22 -> has cool features like line lock which

385.8 -> we had the Ford guy test out for us

388.84 -> [Applause]

394.38 -> we haven't had a chance to test it out

395.819 -> but if we do we're going to insert that

397.319 -> now

404.37 -> [Music]

409.13 -> [Applause]

410.36 -> but at the time he could not get it to

413.1 -> roll out of a burnout yeah so it was

415.199 -> weird locks you into like a 15 second

417.12 -> burnout and then you couldn't he

419.039 -> couldn't roll through so in order to

420.9 -> turn on line lock you hold the OK button

423.36 -> and then you press ok to engage now it's

426 -> engaged if you're doing a burnout to

427.86 -> drive through it all you do is press ok

429.78 -> to cancel

430.979 -> boom drive through it that's how easy it

433.62 -> is and then this electric handbrake it

436.38 -> is the same one as on the EcoBoost but

438.06 -> unlike the EcoBoost if you get an

440.28 -> automatic without that handbrake you

442.979 -> still get paddles on the steering wheel

444.599 -> and it took me a little while to wrap my

446.699 -> head around exactly what's happening

448.08 -> with this so when you treat it like a

449.759 -> normal handbrake and you're parking this

451.259 -> car it's basically the equivalent of an

453.599 -> electronic flick up finger break because

455.699 -> you could just tap this up you don't

457.139 -> have to like rip it up because it

458.22 -> doesn't stay up and then put it down

460.38 -> down you push it down or you drive

462.72 -> through it yeah like an electronic one

464.699 -> the weirdest part for me is pushing a

466.199 -> handbrake down because that doesn't

467.699 -> exist in real life so I've wrapped my

469.38 -> head around it and I've already gotten

470.759 -> used to it and it is not a point of

473.039 -> contention for me it's totally fine yeah

474.78 -> and we did do a couple uh hand they said

476.94 -> it was a drift section on the Press trip

479.22 -> but it was really just two handbrake

480.78 -> turns yes with a little bit of a

482.52 -> four-cylinder yeah yeah yeah it's

485.4 -> definitely not drifting no and in the

487.8 -> marketing they're like practice your

489.3 -> reverse entries with that e-brake it's

492.24 -> our handbrake it's like okay you're not

493.5 -> doing reverse entries no there's no

494.88 -> angle kit on here you couldn't pull

495.9 -> through even though they got a drift

497.4 -> team who like helped set it up but it's

499.139 -> like yeah they yeah RTR has fully

501.18 -> designed this with Ford so we had

502.919 -> Chelsea denofo out here but we weren't

505.139 -> able to like properly do anything with

507.419 -> yeah we couldn't like link turns because

508.979 -> that wasn't yeah

510.86 -> but anyways I think it is time to get

513.24 -> you into the driver's seat although I do

514.979 -> really enjoy my time behind the wheel

516.479 -> okay you can use the straight pipes

518.399 -> money to buy one on tsp.truecar.com oh I

520.8 -> can yeah it's got to be an orange though

522.12 -> do they have orange new color or no uh

524.459 -> without even driving the Dark Horse I

526.68 -> think I would have to go with the Dark

528 -> Horse although this is really good it

530.04 -> just has the Tremec transmission if the

531.899 -> new Mustang's not up on tsb.truecard.com

533.88 -> yet it will be soon you kind of just

535.26 -> need to wait for dealer inventory to

536.58 -> catch up because these videos come out

537.779 -> early all right let me just take the

539.22 -> e-brake off uh yeah push it down

542.58 -> we put it back up let's let's show the

544.5 -> people how it's done

551.22 -> it feels that fails good all right a lot

554.88 -> of good torque still from really down

556.74 -> low and third when I shoot down

560.82 -> get the shift lights

563.22 -> sounds pretty good from in here let's

565.14 -> take a listen to the outside

571.3 -> [Music]

575.3 -> and we've got the optional sport exhaust

578.279 -> so that was full volume in race mode or

580.98 -> track mode and you'll know it's the

582.3 -> louder exhaust because they'll have the

583.32 -> double duels instead of the single dual

584.82 -> yes and what about the automatic

586.68 -> transmission yeah if you're an automatic

588.779 -> transmission with this or the EcoBoost

590.58 -> and you got the performance exhaust on

592.5 -> it if you have the car started or

594.779 -> started if you click lock and unlock

596.64 -> it'll rev a bit after it gets the proper

598.74 -> temperature remotely and then if you

600.48 -> click it again it'll go

606.48 -> all right

610.68 -> you literally have remote revving from

612.899 -> the key fob remote being a piece of

614.94 -> trash in real life yeah I mean shout out

617.279 -> Ford for knowing their customer base

618.54 -> like myself all I do is Rev the balls

620.459 -> off my Mustang but it doesn't work on a

622.5 -> manual even if you're in neutral which

623.94 -> is kind of disappointing but probably

625.399 -> makes sense definitely a safety thing

627.72 -> but I mean it does sound really good

629.22 -> from in here and outside it's like it's

630.839 -> got that characteristic kind of Mustang

632.58 -> Rumble it's it's still there so it

634.32 -> sounds like a coyote and now that I've

635.76 -> spent a bit more time in these twisty

637.92 -> roads like this the steering feels much

641.1 -> different than previous Mustang that's

642.72 -> what I'm saying much much different much

644.519 -> better but the power does feel very

646.38 -> similar still because it is basically

648.3 -> the same power so you do get six less

650.22 -> horsepower without the performance

652.2 -> exhaust so it's not actually coming from

654.12 -> those twin intakes

655.5 -> found a nice spot for our launch control

663.72 -> foreign

667.54 -> [Music]

671.779 -> yeah so you can actually set your launch

674.279 -> RPM Target we've got a pretty low at

676.019 -> four thousand I feel like I said it's a

677.399 -> six I feel like it's bogging down and

678.899 -> honestly we should probably set it to

680.279 -> six uh that would be my recommendation

681.72 -> without even trying it and it does have

683.339 -> a drag strip mode and timers and stuff

685.8 -> which is sick and we have been spending

687.959 -> most of our time in the canyons in track

690 -> mode for the suspension and for

691.56 -> everything and it's actually really good

693.36 -> out here I did kind of experiment with

695.1 -> sport mode as well it's softened up just

696.959 -> a little bit and normal and all that

698.579 -> stuff on the public Streets back in the

700.68 -> city it's still kind of stiff with the

703.019 -> magneride I wish there was more of a

704.82 -> difference between normal and track yeah

706.98 -> they're all very firm but it still feels

708.66 -> all right and yeah okay look when I'm

709.86 -> steering with these seats like see on my

711.24 -> elbows yeah I don't know if that happens

713.76 -> with a lot of other people it didn't

714.779 -> happen with you right so I got like my

716.64 -> wider frame with my muscles I gotta tuck

718.62 -> my arms in I think and that's a weird

720.779 -> thing for me about DC's these are the

722.22 -> recaros yeah they are very comfortable

724.019 -> very bolstered which is really nice out

725.76 -> here yeah but I think I'm fine with like

727.86 -> the norm normal seats as well and with

729.6 -> the normal seats you also get cooled

731.22 -> seats as soon as you get recorded yes

733.44 -> they're deleted and they're also not

734.76 -> heated either and then you can get some

736.44 -> cool colors like there's an orange

737.64 -> interior you said looked ugly which to

739.32 -> me looks like awesome I love ugly Ember

742.2 -> glow which isn't quite normal it's more

744 -> of like a rust yeah and then uh there's

746.279 -> a bunch of cool interiors that you can

747.48 -> get and there's a bunch of cool paint

748.8 -> color you can get like the Grabber blue

750.24 -> looked really good I think these

751.86 -> definitely look better in non-metallic

753.66 -> colors because it accentuates the dark

755.88 -> grills more right but then the metallic

758.04 -> kind of accentuates the shapes that they

760.2 -> like the hard lines especially like for

762 -> the Camaro esque especially in this blue

763.92 -> color that we have and then the Dark

765.779 -> Horse with like the blue colors it's

767.16 -> it's hard to see all the like the weird

769.26 -> lines like how it looks like it's drawn

771.12 -> like the base Camaro like the line of

774.779 -> thing I like the way the dark horses

776.7 -> look in lighter colors like the white

778.2 -> ones or whatever yeah with their uh bags

780.42 -> under the eyes or whatever yeah yeah

781.68 -> yeah I painted on mask or something yeah

783.66 -> they just look tired yeah a darker looks

785.639 -> like anyways okay we got a cool little

786.66 -> wing back there too which reminds me of

788.1 -> lot of the Corvette Wing oh yes yeah and

792.66 -> I've seen some that are black on the red

794.459 -> and you can do a free Wing delete which

796.26 -> I would actually recommend because it

797.639 -> looks really nice and sharp without a

799.019 -> wing but this Wing is great probably one

800.94 -> of the best Mustang Wings yeah it's

802.56 -> clean because yeah it's so subtle and

804.66 -> then just like the EcoBoost really

806.279 -> really awesome tail lights like I love

808.139 -> the taillights on this yeah so pointy so

810.54 -> sharp it's a great looking car in person

812.459 -> and then since this one doesn't have the

813.54 -> blacked out package we've got the little

814.8 -> Chrome things in the headlight so it

816.12 -> always looks like there's headlights on

817.2 -> as opposed to the yellow one we had

819.18 -> which had the blackout package yes and

821.22 -> then there's also a bronze package which

823.56 -> then you get bronze wheels and bronze

825.36 -> accents I think even the pony is bronze

827.1 -> yeah but we don't have that one no and

828.54 -> then more stuff inside normal floor mats

830.7 -> would probably be cooler with a set of

831.779 -> talks matte definitely get a set of tux

833.22 -> Mac go to tuxmat.com straight pipes I'm

835.86 -> sure they'll have the new Mustang very

837.42 -> soon or maybe even the old mats will fit

839.16 -> because maybe it hasn't been changed

840.54 -> it's not gonna fit all right visor test

842.6 -> three two one full pass just like the

846.12 -> EcoBoost cup holders pass too and you're

847.86 -> like Caboose this is the same pretty

849.48 -> much the exact same elbow armrest glove

852.48 -> box compartment thingy as the previous

854.279 -> generation as well because it looks very

856.2 -> similar and then we have a fake carbon

857.88 -> fiber shifter surround we got fake

859.2 -> carbon fiber up here it does look pretty

861.24 -> good the materials on this Premium

862.98 -> Edition seem a little bit better and the

865.079 -> infotainment is one big panel with two

867 -> screens in it but you can also get one

868.32 -> that looks like two different ones and

870.6 -> it's pretty much exactly the same as the

872.04 -> EcoBoost which is cool if you're in the

873.48 -> EcoBoost because you're getting the same

874.62 -> stuff that you get into GT it's not like

876.24 -> you're getting a worse version exactly

877.8 -> Unreal Engine so it makes everything

879.839 -> nice and fluid and smooth and you can

881.519 -> spin stuff around you can change the

882.899 -> colors change the glitch cluster modes

884.399 -> you can have Fox body gauges we

886.26 -> mentioned a lot in the EcoBoost review

887.76 -> so definitely go watch that for more

889.8 -> details yes and this has all the same

891.54 -> Drive modes that the EcoBoost also has

893.639 -> but custom Drive modes are very weird

895.62 -> like when you try to customize something

897.36 -> you have to pick a base drive mode and

898.86 -> that kind of locks you into the engine

900.3 -> and steering and the suspension

902.76 -> suspension of that mode then you can

904.5 -> really just customize exhaust traction

905.88 -> it's not like the most intuitive but you

908.04 -> can change your drive modes from the

909.66 -> steering wheel which is nice hard

910.86 -> buttons yeah and then you can also

912.54 -> change your rev match in a separate menu

914.519 -> which would have been nice if they tied

916.199 -> that to the custom mode just like

918.06 -> Porsche does and then this also does

919.5 -> have driving assist too like we got Lane

921.24 -> centering and like adaptive cruise so

923.04 -> that's pretty cool haven't used it out

925.019 -> here nope not at all and then we got a

926.76 -> little tray for your phone charger which

929.399 -> heats up your phone pretty good Wireless

931.199 -> or wired Apple carplay Android auto and

934.98 -> the Apple carplay works great we always

936.36 -> have it up in the top right to click but

938.22 -> I feel like we've missed it a couple

940.079 -> times we've hit it and like had to click

941.459 -> it like three times to get it to work

942.899 -> yeah so uh it's just touch screen things

945.42 -> you know and then our climate is also

947.579 -> buried in here we're not buried it's

948.959 -> always at the bottom but it is in the

951 -> screen and what's cool is when they

952.44 -> remove the heated and cooled seats it

954.18 -> actually doesn't look like you're

955.139 -> missing a button or an option it's just

956.76 -> gone wow that's what they did that's how

958.86 -> that's how they get you with no hard

960.36 -> buttons and then down here we do have

961.98 -> some hard buttons we do have one blank

963.959 -> button which is for the Auto Stop start

965.519 -> which I guess is for the automatic maybe

967.5 -> that new Engine Tuning means they don't

969.6 -> have to have an auto start stop button

971.339 -> on here to get fuel standards maybe and

973.26 -> then this whole panel just kind of moves

974.519 -> back and forth when you press all these

975.66 -> buttons yeah I mean overall I like it

979.86 -> they didn't screw it up if you do take

982.079 -> turns I would highly recommend the newer

984.839 -> version go to tsp.truecar.com but if you

986.76 -> don't take turns I think you'll have a

989.76 -> lot of fun still with the last gen

991.38 -> Mustang I'll totally agree with that

993.42 -> statement but can you afford it I think

995.94 -> it's time we get to the price hit me

998.579 -> with it the GT starts at 42.495 American

1002.72 -> and this one is specked out to

1005.06 -> approximately 56 635 dollars

1008.839 -> I think that's an okay deal now the

1011.779 -> crazy part is the Dark Horse still

1014 -> starts at 59 270. yo I would go base

1017.899 -> Dark Horse overloaded this because with

1021.019 -> the Dark Horse you get certain things

1022.82 -> already built into it so you get

1024.38 -> magnaride you get things like that and

1026.299 -> I'm just basing this off my experience

1027.679 -> with the Mach 1 which was like the only

1029.72 -> 5 liter Mustang that I actually really

1032.36 -> liked yeah we loved I loved the Mach 1

1035.059 -> obviously a GT350 or an R is more

1037.64 -> preferable just because that engine is

1039.439 -> so special but the Mach 1 of the

1041.179 -> previous generation was fantastic we

1043.28 -> called that car perfect or nearly

1044.839 -> perfect and this is getting pretty close

1046.939 -> so the Dark Horse is probably pretty

1049.16 -> close to perfect as well except I'm not

1051.02 -> the fondest of the Dark Horse looks

1052.64 -> exactly like if it was dark horse stuff

1054.44 -> in the EcoBoost With No Wings you know

1058.16 -> what I mean I like that clean look and I

1060.74 -> wonder if there's going to be a Shelby

1062.419 -> of some kind in this generation like

1064.039 -> GT350 GT3 500 dt800 who knows GT1

1069.1 -> exactly so let us know what you guys

1071.419 -> think of the new Mustang do you like the

1073.22 -> looks do you wish for more power what do

1075.38 -> you want out of this thing we still got

1076.58 -> a V8 so just celebrate that

1078.919 -> see you later

1082.54 -> [Music]

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PLpzcaQsuQ