This car has a damn springy clutch. Which is an unlucky break for me, what with the premise of this article requiring 87,000 shifts and 50 miles' worth of krutzing along behind taxis and buses and nervous ex-hippies in Volvo SUVs.
And speaking of nervous ex-hippies, if seeing this car makes you fear that you're having a flashback, don't worry. This package — Ford's second Mustang Bullitt and the first on the highly McQueenable current body — compliments the regular cars' retrodesign styling with retropaint, retrowheels, retrohotrodparts, a retroadvertisingcampaign, and a great retroexhaustnote. Add tear gas and gonorrhea, and it's just like the Summer of Love. The dark-green metallic finish was common on late-'60s Pontiacs. The wheels are a riff on the Torq-Thrusts we all had in high school. The hop-up equipment — numerically higher rear axle, cold-air box, front strut brace, "performance" pads, remapped ECU, stiffer shocks and struts — is straight out of the hot-rodder handbook, or in this case the Ford Racing catalog. And as for the sound, the Bullitt's new model-specific pipes make the best '60s rock in the business.
I tried to do the same thing with my GFs dad's focus, trying to find the jump areas, when I did, there was always traffic I tried a few times to her dismay but alas, it would not jump. I can dig the car, but tehy've got to do something about that steering wheel. The paint isn't my cup of anything. Good read.
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satisfied for carlounge president?
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Why not? The current one doesn't make any sense either.
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For the most part. If memory serves, it's also the cucumber capital of Japan. Hence the home-market ads for the FT-86 featuring Takeichi-kun, the cartoon cucumber whose meteoric rise through the underground drift world has shamed him in the eyes of his school-master.
A 3.73 is shorter, not taller, than a 3.31. [/anal]
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IMO, the current Charger R/T is very comparable to the 1968/1969 Charger R/T. They are pretty close weight wise, and offer similar SAE Net numbers, since the 440 hi-po was a little underated to make the Hemi (which was also underated) look right. This would have been a very viable chase comparison.
I agree this one seemed a little rushed to press.
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Unfortunately, hackin' it is a way of life in auto journalism. Hemingway was able to drive an ambulance and write a book; most of these guys couldn't do either.
No, they didn't. Ford did the preview drive for the new Bullitt in SF, along a small chunk of the original shooting location. There's nothing original in driving a Bullitt Mustang in SF. What is original is the idea of piecing together the entire route.
I don't like the principle behind the Bullitt Edition, but I do like the final product. I prefer Ford to not depend on past names to keep the 'Stang afloat. The whole idea of a Bullitt Edition is silly to me. The 2008 edition's clean, bare look makes it the most handsome factory Ford coupe I see at the dealer, however. It would have been better to see Ford to have just aimed at this car being simply a factory option with weight trimmed off, better brakes, a tweaked suspension, and maybe higher engine output. Ford is selling out the Bullitt name. Oh well.
I agree with the complaints about Lamm's article. I felt the article lacked a single rhythm. The first part of the article makes an attempted humorous gripe about the car as if he's in the cabin. He then rants about the movie and the idea for several paragraphs. He then goes about the route sounding alive for a few sentences, and then like a drone for others. It was as if he just jumbled his stuff to get over with so he could get back to his better-paying writing job at "some other magazine."
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I tried a few times to her dismay but alas, it would not jump. I can dig the car, but tehy've got to do something about that steering wheel. The paint isn't my cup of anything. Good read. 
