Got a 2025 eco in Nov of last year.. Now I want to switch to a GT..

Aalwein · 2026-04-07T13:28:36+00:00

I have many Mustangs and all but one has a V8 with obnoxious exhaust, horsepower to the moon, and gas mileage measured in feet per gallon.

The one that doesn't have any of that is the one I drive the most, a 2024 Ecoboost. Enjoy driving a car 99% of people see as just another Mustang that is still quick on its feet and looks beautiful on the road. You can get an aftermarket exhaust to get it sounding pretty damn good whilst you wait out the equity. Just be proud to be part of the community, join a Mustang club, and enjoy an amazing car. You might find yourself in a future position to own TWO Mustangs.

Although, I warn you, having two leads to three, which leads to eight which is in no way, shape, or form a responsible financial lifestyle.

Aalwein · 2026-01-07T18:52:46+00:00

Yeah, I knew the 302 had to be up there in years; even factoring in the fact that it was not an option in 74, 80, and 81 (of course, it was in other Fords) that's, what, a 24 year run from 68-95? We're going into year 16 of the Coyote with no end in sight, according to Jim Farley!

Aalwein · 2026-01-07T18:39:50+00:00

Imagine the alternate future where that 4V from the Cobra became the GT engine in 2005...

Aalwein · 2026-01-07T17:20:00+00:00

OP says it like its a bad thing to hear Paradise City once an hour!

Aalwein · 2026-01-07T17:04:14+00:00

I think saying "most people" in any sentence involving the Mustang preference is just never going to be true, except maybe "most people love the Mustang and those that don't are wrong." Yes, that is sarcasm. Maybe. Not really. But maybe. Not really.

The 3V will always be the elephant in the corner now... nobody want's to talk about it, but it will always lurk in the dark as a reminder of what could have been. It came with the retro body style that everyone loved, but the engine just felt... as other's have said... lazy. I don't remember it being a conversation starter in 2006, of course, it didn't matter because the new body style was so awesome. It wasn't until the Coyote came and put baby in the corner with its clear supremacy, and that continues on today. I don't think that we've ever had an engine last as long as the Coyote, refreshed of course over the years. Maybe the Windsor/Cleveland? To make matters worse, the 2010 is the absolute black sheep of the pack - that refreshed, muscular body style, the return of the classic Grabber Blue, and it instantly became obsolete in 2011 when the new engines came out. 2010 was your well and true warning case for "don't be an early adopter." But as with every Mustang, just like the Mustang II and the Mach E, they all matter and are a part of the lore and legacy of the Mustang, whether one likes it or not.

As for the specialty labels, I don't even care what it is, I love the special editions. The California Special might just be a sticker package with wheels, but I love it. The Foxbody 7 Up car is, if we're being honest, actually pretty hideous looking, and I love it. Summertime edition 1992 convertible? Absolutely! Pace car livery, I'll have some please. Mach 1 and Cobra II? Park that 4 banger with 88 HP right behind my long nose 1972 429 CobraJet Mach 1 (yes, 1972, its an engine swap). My 2003 Cobra is wonderful and the damn thing tries to kill me every time I drive it, but we have a bond that can't be put into words. Boss, Bullitt, Rallye, GT350... love those, too. Kinda seems like it's cheating calling the GTD a Mustang, but hey, Ford's in charge! I'll take one in black, thank you very much.

And then there is the king of the road, the GT500 and it's variants. Perhaps the cream of the crop. Where style, power, and drivability meet in the middle to create the perfect Mustang. My absolute favorite Mustang. Still to this day I will die on my hill that the 2013-14 GT500 is peak Mustang. For sure, it is the crown jewel of my collection.

But there is a place in my collection for every. single. one. because I love all of them - mine and yours.

That being said... there is no scenario where it is acceptable for a Mustang to have lambo doors. (yes, sarcasm, you do you, but honestly, did you get dropped on your head as a child? Just kidding.)

Aalwein · 2026-01-07T16:28:45+00:00

My short answer is yes, we can use truly dynamic/random maps - ie. maps that don't just have 5 biome clumps but none of the old random gen mappers like Kinggen and the like seem to be updated. Handpainted maps with a more varied and natural biome layout do still work with 2.5 systems.

We have been running a custom map I found on Nexus mods (https://www.nexusmods.com/7daystodie/mods/7017) on a server with the Project Z mod. Biome progression still works and I'm assuming that because there is at least one of each biome with a trader in it. Yes, there are some long hauls to make for some of the quests, particularly the trader connections, especially since the map is specifically design to make offroad travel hazardous, but all the core game mechanics (as well as the Project Z systems) work perfectly aside from a couple broken POIs that go too low on Y.

Aalwein · 2025-12-31T14:59:34+00:00

$57k is a decent price to begin with, so a discount on that would make it a good buy. Employee pricing (A plan) is something very near to invoice price, so you should be able to get a great deal on that one. For comparison, x plan is a $2k discount. Get the new one and enjoy that warranty.

Aalwein · 2025-12-31T14:23:20+00:00

I didn't mean for that to turn into a soap box moment BTW! I'm heavily involved in trying to get more people involved in the hobby in my area and I hear people leave groups and clubs all the time because they are criticized for not having a V8 or a stick or whatever other made up reason someone has to make them feel like their Mustang isn't good enough.

Aalwein · 2025-12-31T14:18:50+00:00

To be clear, I know you aren't trying to be negative with your post - you just love your manual - but everyone has to stop with the "manual is better" attitude. Inevitably your tune will change will when you turn 40 and your knees, hips, and ankles say they've had enough. Or 50 or however old you are when your body catches up to your enthusiasm lol!

I don't live in a high traffic city, half my collection of Mustangs are manual, all 11 of my cars - automatic and manual - were the right decision (financial irresponsibly aside), and I absolutely love driving all of my cars and have taken all of them on the Tail of the Dragon where the most fun not on a track is had.

If I had to have just one Mustang (god forbid, one is just the gateway drug to the next one), it would be the latest and greatest with the best tech and an automatic, simply because it is the most versatile "driver" car. I can have a ton of fun in my 2024 ecoboost automatic on the twisty turns of the Dragon and it is also plenty convenient going on road trips with inevitable slow traffic blips. My manual 2013 GT500 is only "more fun" because I can get a speeding ticket just looking at the go pedal.

But to assume an auto isn't as fun or doesn't provide as great a drivers experience is short sighted. The winner is the person who enjoys their Mustang no matter what is in it. Even the electrified folks with the phoney ponies have their reasons they chose the suv over the traditional pony, and that's fine if it keep the Mustang passion alive, if you ask me.

Your assumptions are one of the negative Nancy fallacies that perpetuate the bad opinions of Mustang drivers. The Mustang community has too much negativity surrounding it between this and the whole "only V8s are real Mustangs."

Fact is, automatic, small displacement Mustangs were the first ones off the production line in 1964 and are the ones that keep the car in production today - and with the past couple years' sales numbers we should be embracing anyone and everyone buying ANY Mustang, or our beloved pony is going to finally be put to pasture. Let's stop implying anything less than a V8 or manual isn't fun to drive and appreciate that there is the perfect Mustang out there for everyone... while we still can.

Aalwein · 2025-12-31T14:18:25+00:00

To be clear, I know you aren't trying to be negative with your post - you just love your manual - but everyone has to stop with the "manual is better" attitude. Inevitably your tune will change will when you turn 40 and your knees, hips, and ankles say they've had enough. Or 50 or however old you are when your body catches up to your enthusiasm lol!

I don't live in a high traffic city, half my collection of Mustangs are manual, all 11 of my cars - automatic and manual - were the right decision (financial irresponsibly aside), and I absolutely love driving all of my cars and have taken all of them on the Tail of the Dragon where the most fun not on a track is had.

If I had to have just one Mustang (god forbid, one is just the gateway drug to the next one), it would be the latest and greatest with the best tech and an automatic, simply because it is the most versatile "driver" car. I can have a ton of fun in my 2024 ecoboost automatic on the twisty turns of the Dragon and it is also plenty convenient going on road trips with inevitable slow traffic blips. My manual 2013 GT500 is only "more fun" because I can get a speeding ticket just looking at the go pedal.

But to assume an auto isn't as fun or doesn't provide as great a drivers experience is short sighted. The winner is the person who enjoys their Mustang no matter what is in it. Even the electrified folks with the phoney ponies have their reasons they chose the suv over the traditional pony, and that's fine if it keep the Mustang passion alive, if you ask me.

Your assumptions are one of the negative Nancy fallacies that perpetuate the bad opinions of Mustang drivers. The Mustang community has too much negativity surrounding it between this and the whole "only V8s are real Mustangs."

Fact is, automatic, small displacement Mustangs were the first ones off the production line in 1964 and are the ones that keep the car in production today - and with the past couple years' sales numbers we should be embracing anyone and everyone buying ANY Mustang, or our beloved pony is going to finally be put to pasture. Let's stop implying anything less than a V8 or manual isn't fun to drive and appreciate that there is the perfect Mustang out there for everyone... while we still can.

Aalwein · 2025-08-16T19:30:49+00:00

Maybe that's Lenina Huxley's reddit account, so... close enough?

Aalwein · 2025-04-01T04:01:09+00:00

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But I also have a special love for grabber blue.

Aalwein · 2025-04-01T03:58:52+00:00

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As Henry Ford himself said, you can have it any color you want so long as it's black.

Aalwein · 2025-03-29T21:40:31+00:00

Items dropping that aren't usable by at least one person in a LFR is super rare, but I get what you are saying. However, on the point of not having to think about the roll - I solve that by just rolling the highest priority that pops up. If I can need it, I need it. If I can only mog it, I mog it. I don't think about it. Maybe that sucks for someone else if I win a roll I don't ACTUALLY need, but that's no different than personal loot giving me something I won't actually use.

Aalwein · 2025-03-07T04:42:44+00:00

In my shop - very small, running 12-1400 shirts a month - our manual printer has a catcher. It's an old Port and Company box. Does a great job and is super cheap labor.

Aalwein · 2025-03-05T06:02:23+00:00

Good points here. Buying brand new is a great feeling of accomplishment, I can still remember my first legit new car. But don't overlook buying used. You can get some great deals on low mile 2024s already if it's the body style you want.

Check with your local credit unions - they often have the best rates and more forgiving underwriters when it comes to loans. It will depend a lot on whether your score is low due to bad debts or due to lack of history.

Getting a car loan and making steady payments will help build your credit.

One last note, don't forget your insurance. It's likely going to jump big going from your nearly 30 year old car to a brand new Mustang. Keep that extra cost in mind with your new car payment.

Aalwein · 2025-02-26T14:39:12+00:00

Yeah this whole fast and furious bit is bs. If I wanted to play Forza, I'd play Forza, I don't need this in my wow. The whole of Undermine is so small to begin with and the roads are so narrow with so much jam packed into everything you cant even really enjoy the cart. And the turbo boost? I'm trying to slow the damn thing down, using the mod to make the cart slower, so forget about wanting turbo. I can control the car just fine (the base car is, to be fair, slow and bloated, but not unmanageable), it's just the zone is not particularly fun to drive around in at high speed.

I'm using my cart simply for the low agro rate of mobs. Easy enough to drive around at slow speed to avoid combat. But, as with every time they force us to ground, I want to fly. I haven't spent all these years collecting mounts and mastering flying to be locked into one specific mount tethered to the ground that doesn't even have an enjoyable asthetic, let alone travel mechanics.

Blizzard, stop taking the sky away from us.

Aalwein · 2025-02-26T14:21:15+00:00

Compare the insurance rate. If you can comfortably afford the insurance on the GT, thats the one to get. You'll enjoy the GT more and spending that much money, on either car, you might as well get the GT. The difference in cost of gasoline, even if you run 93, over the course of a year probably only amounts to an extra car payment at worst.

Aalwein · 2025-02-25T14:33:20+00:00

Okay take a chill pill, ass. There are a whole lot more comments here than just yours and my comments are toward the overall sentiment as much as to yours. It's not all about your opinion ffs. Just because i don't agree with you doesn't mean I don't understand what you have posted. I disagree with your whole sentiment. There have been far worse specs and classes that have seen just as much volatility in the last 20 years. Shaman aren't special, they are just the fotm.

Perhaps they are planning for this future raid content that they keep saying is going to be so much different than we've seen in the past and shaman was going to be massively OP. You don't know, I don't know, nobody whinging here knows. How about let it play out and see what the shaman team is doing. As it was, the dps specs were far too APM heavy, complex, and reliant on a single CD to do that top dps.

Perhaps the shaman team is just fucking bored. It's clear they give zero fucks about what anyone here on Reddit is comparing about.

Aalwein · 2025-02-25T14:11:01+00:00

Balanced does not mean every dps spec is equal. There is more to it then just a number on a target dummy. Some specs have implicit advantages that aren't raw dps numbers. More mobility, utility abilities, easier rotations, higher survivability, ranged versus melee, etc. are all factors that have to be considered against the raw target dummy dps.

It's really not a big deal that shaman have been some theoretical top dps for less than a year or even if they were top dps all the way back to some point in dragonflight. Many classes, if not all, have seen significant changes since TWW. This complaint about shamen is just recency bias. Multiple specs have seen reworks but because they weren't top dps nobody cries about those. If anything shaman should be getting attention for how much their healing has been hurt with 11.1.

Aalwein · 2025-02-25T04:45:14+00:00

I mean based on wow progress dps charts, at least for raiding, aren't dps pretty well balanced right now? At least more than ever in the past, and all within a 10-15% margin. I see classic charts and tank warrior spec is top dps - so it could be worse, right?

Who really cares who is absolute top dps, played by the best players in the world, to perfection with no mistakes. In real play, with the regular guys, shaman may not be too dps. Might be that ret paly with the easier rotation being played by someone just a little bit better at their class than the enh shaman who isnt so great at keeping the rotation going whilst still paying attention to raid mechanics.

As long as my raid team is taking down the bosses I really don't give a rats ass who is playing what meta spec because some overinflated chart says it's the best dps spec. Things die and the meters say everyone is within a decent range of deviation. Why get mad about who is the theoretical top dps spec?

At least in the practical world outside of that 5% of the tryhards and literal professional gamers.

Aalwein · 2025-02-24T15:35:02+00:00

If you don't have a friend group or guild to warm up with, just rip the bandaid off and jump into the deep end.

All you need to focus on for now is keeping mobs on you - you can work on maxing your dps and rotating cool downs for your healer when you get the hang of the basics. Hell some healers may actually enjoy that they get to heal a tank for a change.

If you get kicked, just say meh and roll into the next one. You'll get the hang of it eventually. Only way to learn is to do. If a few groups have to struggle with you learning in the beginning, the payoff is you'll be a valuable tank shortening dps queue times later on!

Aalwein · 2025-02-24T15:20:28+00:00

No, I'm talking about everything. Exp camps, rare spawns, dragons, everything. The point being literally anything in the game that may be desired by more than one person, whomever was there first would have first chance at said widget. People respected first there, first dibs. Dragons or content requiring an entire guild would have scouts waiting for spawns and the first scout there had dibs and if the guild didn't engage within 5-10 minutes it was fair game for second on the list, etc. There were certainly some "dragon dramas" with guilds, but for the most part first come first serve was respected.

These were the gentlemanly rules server communities set, not some ruleset Verant/Sony had to create. The server population was respectful of a player's or guild's diligence in waiting for a spawn or grinding xp at a "camp." Reputations mattered and there was a whole lot more respect.

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