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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
I think you may have glazed over my post without reading or considering what I said. The original Mustang was build off the Falcon, a compact sedan. Compacts were new/few from pre-60’s like the Covair and VW Bug, but it was basically a reskinned Falcon.
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That the original Mustang was built on the Falcon platform is is not news to me. But it is not *relevant* to discussion of the current car, which AFAIK doesn't share a platform with anything? I.e. it could have been whatever size they wanted. They chose to make it big. Could be related to the fact that the initial development of the 2005 "new retro" car was done assuming it would be a shared platform with a Lincoln Sedan (the discontinued LS series IIRC).
Quick search suggests there could be a "Mustang sedan" so perhaps it does...
Actually my main gripe with the "Mach E" is that IMO it'd be about a perfect modern station wagon as a stretched 5-door Mustang and not some tall pseudo-SUV!
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The Camaro shares the platform for midsized luxury cars like the Z because compacts are all FWD, necessitating the shared platform with larger RWDs.
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Yeah, so those cars have a bit of an excuse... Worth noting the Camaro V8 undercuts the Mustang by 100 lb., still overweight for a "Camaro" imo but less so.
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Like the Z transitioning to the ZX to inject some premium features into the car, the Mustang has moved and expanded up market at different points in its history based on the trends.
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Side note: When the S130 280ZX came out in 1979 at 2750 lb. it actually weighed slightly *less* than the outgoing S30 280Z at 2800 lb.
It did *look* heavier though, despite being the same size. The styling was kinda not as clean and it looked less like a sports car and more like a disco boulevardier... Also they f'd up the rear suspension design going from the Z's Chapman struts to semi-trailing-arms.
The real ZX weight gain came with the gorgeous-but-heavy Z32 300ZX. 3300-3400ish lb. for NA, 3500+ for the turbo :'(
350Z and 370Z have been 3300ish lb but now the new one is 3500+
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I can’t see putting a RWD V8 into a Focus and getting to 3,200 lbs without doing a lot to the Focus and omitting adaptive dampers and bigger brakes or whatever else makes the Mustang GT more premium over a base Ecoboost or Focus.
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Obviously you wouldn't want to create a rear-drive Mustang starting with an overweight fwd car with entirely incorrect proportions...