The new Mustang's option mix is annoying me

"Textured Soy Protein" (texturedsoyprotein) 04/23/2015 at 17:45 • Filed to: None

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On my way back to my office from lunch today, I merged onto the highway next to a brand new orange Mustang GT with what I think was the Performance Pack. It looked and sounded quite nice, so I hit up the Mustang configurator. Now I’m irked.

Problem #1: The Performance Pack is only available on the fastback, not the convertible. I like performancey convertibles dammit!

Problem #2: There’s no sunroof on the fastback. If I can’t have a performancey convertible at least let me catch some rays on my bald spot!

Problem #3: The only way to get a GT with leather seats is to go up to the GT Premium, which includes a whole bunch of other crap in addition to leather, for the bargain price of 4 friggin thousand dollars. Then to get simple items like power seat memory or rain sensing wipers, those are each part of Premium-specific equipment groups that include even more extraneous shit. I care about 8 of the total 26 items included with (or exclusive options for) the Premium, which I have italicized.

Selective drive modes

Leather upholstery

Heated and cooled front seats

Dual-zone automatic climate control

9-speaker stereo (instead of the base 6-speaker)

SYNC with MyFord Touch (instead of just SYNC)

SiriusXM Satellite Radio

HD Radio

Bright door speaker, cup holder, air vent and instrument cluster surrounds

Aluminum pedals

Ambient lighting

Premium door trim

Illuminated sill plates

Universal garage door opener

Heated side mirrors with turn signals

Pony projection lights (dafuq?)

Rear diffuser

Assorted options that are only available with the GT Premium: 20” wheels, driver’s seat and mirror memory , Shaker Pro audio system with 12 speakers including subwoofer, adaptive cruise control with forward collision warning and rain-sensing wipers , Blind Spot Information System with Cross-Traffic Alert, Voice-activated Navigation System, Premier Trim with Color Accent Group, 50 Years Appearance Package

The GT with Performance Package is $35,620, while a GT Premium with Performance Package, the few options I genuinely want, and a bunch of other shit I don’t care about, is $42,610.

Stupid Ford overly convoluted options configurations! Not this many things need to be bundled together just to jack up the price. It’s all going to be undone by incentives down the road anyway.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 17:51

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You can’t get cooled seats with the Recaro’s either.

Textured Soy Protein > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/23/2015 at 17:55

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Pretty much everything I’ve read about the Recaros available from Ford makes me want to avoid them, and colored seats are pretty low down my list of priorities.

TheOnelectronic > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 17:57

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The sunroof might be like the Cayman: The roof section is too curved to make a sunroof really work.

uofime > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 18:08

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Someone on here works for a company who reupholsters seats, IIRC they said switching to leather costs 1000$ I would guess they can add seat heaters and coolers too for a fee.

Textured Soy Protein > uofime 04/23/2015 at 18:11

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Sure, you can get aftermarket leather and seat heaters on any car. But the point is the factory options mix comingles way too many things together, so if anyone wants a small selection of the available options, they get stuck with all the other options.

Textured Soy Protein > TheOnelectronic 04/23/2015 at 18:31

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Definitely a possibility. Also the reason why I’d always pick a Boxster over a Cayman.

Funktheduck > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 18:49

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Part of why I chose my 3 over the Focus. Ford packs in way too much crap and jacks the price up. To get a similarly equipped Focus I think was $3-4k more because of the extra crap packages.

Austinguy83 > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 18:50

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HD radio is actually pretty sweet.

SnapUndersteer, Italian Spiderman > Textured Soy Protein 04/23/2015 at 19:11

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The Mustang has cooled seats?

WTF?!?! It’s probably as shitty in performance as the Kia/Hyundai system on their Optima/Sonata anyway

Textured Soy Protein > Austinguy83 04/23/2015 at 19:40

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Sure, but I almost never listen to the radio except if there’s a sporting event on when I happen to be in the car. The stations where I live are all garbage.

Textured Soy Protein > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/23/2015 at 19:42

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Oh wait you said cooled seats not colored. But I’d still probably skip the Recaros, they’re apparently not very comfy and comfy seats are very important to me.

HFV has no HFV. But somehow has 2 motorcycles > Textured Soy Protein 04/24/2015 at 13:34

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I think the pony projection lights, are the courtesy lights that shiny down a Pony symbol when you open the door. kinda awesome actually.

Ben Burkhardt > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/26/2015 at 20:20

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Who cares? It's a bloody sports car! I think the fastback-coupe looks hotter anyway.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Ben Burkhardt 04/26/2015 at 20:36

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I live in the south east. If I pay nearly 40k for a new car, it better have cooled seats.

Ben Burkhardt > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/27/2015 at 12:06

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You sound old, mate. Sorry. And the GT with performance pack isn't $40k. I don't need the premium pack. Actually I would be happy with the EcoBoost with performance pack (under $30k).

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Ben Burkhardt 04/27/2015 at 14:19

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Nope, I’m 20, and I want a car with options, so it would be 40k-ish.

Ben Burkhardt > Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies 04/27/2015 at 20:02

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Sorry. I guess I see it differently than you. Porsche sells packages that takes away options. The point is to take away weight. But for the performance pack from Ford, it doesn’t really take away weight. But the axle ratio is better, it has better brakes and the Recaros support you for racing/track days.