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But with a 10 speed auto, the overdrive gear ratios will likely be very close, especially when compared to a 6 speed, and numerically higher gearing can actually help when driving in the city. Again, when it's not being driven hard, 10, and even 8 speed autos, offer that many more gears, allowing cars and trucks to stay in lower RPMs more often and theoretically save more fuel. My point there is that the ratings will probably be fairly close whether both are officially tested or not. Have to wait and see if those ratings are the base GT, or are specific to the performance geared auto. But most automakers only send the better for the EPA ratings model as far as I know.
All that said, unless it completely blows the SS out of the water from a performance standpoint, that rating is not impressive. *Can someone confirm if that's regular or premium? I can't find it on there; don't know if that it's simply not on there or the image I'm seeing is just too blurry...
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*Reread your reply ChefBorOzzy, confirming it is ethanol free... I get ethanol free when I can for my current vehicles, and I definitely notice a bump in MPGs, and *maybe* some butt meter horsepower... But there's very few stations with in 200 miles of me that carry it, and I imagine it's the same way for the rest of the country, so very few people will see the ideal conditions for max fuel economy. Thanks EPA. This doesn't apply to some who purchase sport/muscle/pony cars, but if I'm buying a modern vehicle, I expect modern fuel economy. The Camaro has had good specs for the 4th and 5th gen lineup, and great numbers for the 6th gen. Given the newly comparable price tag as well as the potentially unimpressive EPA bump the Ford's are getting, I bet the sales will be much more favorable for the Camaro once the initial must have Mustang sales die off.
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Hard to get mpg and power with a small powerplant. Considering the cars we drive I'll take the power all day.
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MotorTrend had an article on this topic:
http://www.motortrend.com/news/bette...-ford-mustang/ Looks like the manual trans sees no fuel economy improvement and auto looks the same as previously posted in this thread. I was really expecting the 10 speed to provide a significant effficiency benefit. I also thought this was interesting: "Funny enough, while all the bodywork from the firewall forward is new, the aero changes to the front end were allegedly set off when Gesek decided to tape up the lower gap on the pre-refreshed car’s grille. The way they tell it, when Del Zio liked the way that change improved the car’s high-speed handling, the duct taped grille ended up influencing the entire front end’s refresh." I'm surprised the Ford engineers admitted to using duct tape for the aero optimization work!
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