[VADER SS L99]

It would be a monumental waste of money for Ford to put a different engine into the 2016 Mustang GT. Its a mainstream engine. Its not a specialty engine like what comes in a SVT, GT500, GT350 or Cobra or other low production car. I am sure the car will get DI at some point but no way will it be the 2016 MY. That would make the 2015 Coyote a one year engine and Ford would lose tons of money. It will take a lot of R&D, production, mfg and testing to change the current Coyote to DI. I don't see that happening till at least the 2018 MY. A revised tune with induction and exhaust changes is probably the most that will happen to the current Coyote for a max of 15 HP and very little torque.

The other thing that most don't seem to comprehend either is that the LT1 is no where near maxed out. I see that engine getting bumped up to 470-480 HP by the 2017 MY maybe 2018 MY at the latest. That is one good thing about the Camaro always receiving the Vette engine. The Vette engine constantly gets updated, improved and with more power.

On to the 10speed. That's a joint venture between GM and Ford so Camaro could get that trans as well but probably not until at least MY 2018. I think there has to be a point though were shift times out weigh any gearing and gear spacing advantage. Don't know if that point will be the future 10speed or a future 12 speed but at some point I think that much shifting will hurt more than the gearing helps.

I think we will continue to see a 5-10HP and over 40TQ gap between SS and GT but now with the SS weighing super close I think it will be game over. Maybe not like the 4th gen era but I think it will be a bigger split then it is currently.