New Mustang follows the tradition of the Boxer and TR...

Read it again.

The engine is not flat...it is a V8 with a flat plane crank.

 

Styling on the new Mustang is fabulous. A friend of mine just picked one up and it looks really nice in person. I have been impressed with American car manufacturers - they are making some really nice vehicles that seem to have some real market potential and providing a good buy for consumers.

What I found most interesting about the 2015 Mustang is its availability in a 4cyl. A 2.3L 4-banger kicking out 310HP is pretty darn impressive. I hope it doesn't drive like a bucket of bolts with that little bitty engine in a heavy car, but I give Ford a nod for stepping up to the plate with something very different.

 

No, the V of the engine in the TR is 180°.

The V8 Ferrari engines have a 90° V with a 180° crank. That is what we are talking about with the new Mustang engine.

 

It's a flat 12, aka Boxer engine, where the cylinders are oriented at 180 degrees or flat, and so the pistons look like they're "boxing" each other. A flat plane crank has nothing to do with the orientation of the cylinders. Ferrari's V8s use a flat plane crank and none of those are boxer motors.

 

Really? Looks like an over done cartoon to me.

The Ford designers have are clearly out of ideas of what to do with this car and have bolted on ever single thing they can borrow from others to try to make it look contemporary.

 

I saw the picture of the 2016 Shelby gt-350. It does look cartoonish.

 

Just a little piece of info to add.

A flat 12 isn't always a boxer engine, the boxer engine configuration refers to a crankshaft layout such that opposing cylinders do not share crankshaft position, and are 180 degrees from eachother on the crankshaft. Opposed pistons both move towards the crankshaft at the sametime, and then move away from the crankshaft at the same time. The Ferrari "boxer" and Testa Rossa use a flattened V12, which follows the same design as a V12, where opposing pistons share the same crankshaft rotational position(causing the opposed pistons to always move away from eachother, instead of towards).

The BB can be confusing as the model of the car being uses the word boxer, when the engine isn't.

The boxer engine requires a more complex crankshaft design, but allows for better balance with an engine of lower cylinders.(Such as the VW bug's opposed four). With twelve cylinders, the BB and TR engine doesn't need a boxer lay out to keep the engine balanced.

 

I love the new 'Stang. The Camaro, on the other hand, THAT looks cartoonish.

If anyone needs a son for Christmas, a nice GT "Premium" would look great under my tree.

 

A minor clarification: on a "non-boxer" flat engine, the opposing pistons are not always moving away from each other...rather, they are always equidistant from each other. IOW, one is moving towards the crankshaft while the other is moving away from the crankshaft...when one is at TDC, the other will be at BDC...etc.

On a boxer engine, the opposing pistons will be at TDC at the same time...then they move towards each other until they reach BDC...at which point they will start to move away from each other.

 

Holy crap...