According to new information from our sister publication Ford Authority, the Chevrolet Camaro’s arch-rival will make a switch from its bespoke platform, to a shared architecture within the Ford family.
Come 2021, we may see a seventh-generation Ford Mustang, and it very well could ride on Ford’s CD6 platform. The new platform will underpin the next Ford Explorer and Lincoln Aviator and is highly adaptable over existing architectures; it can support various shapes and sizes in front-, rear-, and all-wheel-drive configurations. Engine layout is no issue, either.
Obviously, the Mustang would utilize the platform for an RWD layout and longitudinal powertrain orientation. The switch could also help the Mustang shave some serious weight. The sixth-generation Camaro and the Alpha platform have bested the Mustang in this generation over weight savings.
As for the seventh-generation Camaro, we’ll likely see the car debut sometime next decade and ride on GM’s A2 platform—the successor to the Alpha platform. A2 will also serve the Cadillac CT5, which will replace the Cadillac ATS and CTS.
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I bet there will be an AWD hybrid Mustang
Yep, it’s easy to see where this is going. Ford will debut a new generation Mustang with an AWD option. AWD Mustang sales quickly go through the roof. Then, after years of resisting customer demands for an AWD Camaro, Camaro chief engineer Al Oppenheiser is ordered by GM bean counters to rush an AWD Camaro into production.
The one saving grace is that Cadillac will have an AWD car based on the Alpha 2 platform, so there won’t be a huge amount of R&D required to build an AWD Camaro.
I’ll buy an AWD stang
Muatang fans are very proud of their bespoke inferior platform. I wonder how they ate reacting to this parts bin rumor.
Some do while some are still bitter it no longer has the solid axle…Yet the two owners I know only care about end game performance including that it can get a 0-60 in under 4 seconds for under $40K with a factory warranty…
* When equipped with the automatic.
** Power estimate based on 93 octane.
Who cares? Ford is nothing but a shell of itself. It’s quitting Taurus and Fusion, and when the stang sales slow, it will drop it too. What’s left is 5 SUV’s and a pickup. Along with the Focus. Not a damn thing I want. There goes the police car and taxi sales, along with rental car sales. I’ll bet the stockholders love this, along with toyota, honda, nissan, hyundai, etc. Let’s give it all to them…..
Ford will still be selling cars globally and following a GMC strategy isn’t the worst idea in the world…
When Mustang sales slow down, they’ll just start rolling out dozens of different special edition Mustangs, just like they did with the last gen Mustang.
Lol. The Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang aren’t shooting for the same goals at this point. Ford is chasing money with the Mustang and trying to make it the popular sports car. Chevy is making the Camaro the best sports car it can be for the money, with the best chassis and handling. All Mustangs other than the GT PP2 and GT350(R) suffer from horrendous body roll, yet the Camaro LS corners flatter than a Mustang GT. The Mustang’s chassis is leagues below the alpha platform, and there’s no way that an SUV chassis is going to help the Mustang play catch-up. The weight difference won’t be made up with that chassis change, either. GM has new 3D printing tech, new composite materials, and new construction and design techniques that were never implemented on the 6th gen Camaro. All of those new things are aimed at reducing the weight of vehicles in a cost-effective way, and they will be used in the creation of the next-generation Camaro to make it the lightest Camaro yet.
If Ford really is shifting the Mustang to an SUV platform, they’re making a huge mistake.
It’s not an SUV platform, that implies it’ll be body on frame construction. Ford will be running 5 modular architectures for next decade for all of their vehicles. The next generation Focus launching this year will ride on the front wheel drive unibody modular architecture. The next generation Mustang, Explorer, Lincoln Aviator, etc will ride on the rear wheel drive unibody architecture.
An architecture build for a 5000 pound Explorer is going to require a lot of work to make a 3400 pound Mustang. Might be cheaper to rehash S550 once more.
The Mustang, Camaro, Challenger & Challenger are all on a different mission and they all do a remarkable job at what they do and improvements to all of them are welcome. The Challenger and Charger are Muscle cars and embody what the original muscle cars were of the 60’s and ’70’s. Massive horsepower, midsize and full size vehicles with large v8 engines and rear wheel drive. Neither two directly competed with the mustang or Camaro, especially not the mustang as they were designed to fit any engine that Chrysler had in its lineup including the 426 Hemi. The Challenger was designed to compete with cars such as the Mercury Cougar and the Pontiac Firebird, which were more of the personal luxury muscle cars while the Barracuda or “Cuda” was designed to battle the Camaro and the Mustang (more so Camaro than mustang) Chevrolet’s Camaro was always the competitor to the mustang but the mustang was never really exact competition to the better made Camaro. Reason being was that the Camaro was built to handle a big block engine, the mustang was not. When the Mustang Came out, it was designed to handle the 289 & 302 and later on the 390ci V8. The Shelby cars, 428CJ and 429 Boss mustangs were specialty mustangs and a lot of times handling suffered greatly when the Mustangs were fitted with big block engines. A major difference between them and the Camaro. Today that same tradition holds true as the Mustang features a roughly 302ci V8 while the Camaro touts a 376ci V8. If you compare them to each other, they all have their strengths and weaknesses. The Mustang is a car that is easier to live with on a daily basis as it sports a bigger trunk and better visibility than the Camaro but when it comes to overall performance, Camaro is king. Now before all of the butt-hurt mustang fans out there start getting huffy. The Camaro does have a much better chassis and better handling capabilities when compared to the mustang despite the numerous changes and improvements the mustang has undergone and the mustang is a hell of a good car (much better than any mustang before it). I’m not sure what the CD6/S650 will do but I’m hoping that it will lend big improvements to the car along with open the door for more performance vehicles such as a RWD based V8 powered SUV to battle the Durango and hopefully a Ford Falcon sedan for the US. Ford doesn’t need to get rid of sedans, it just needs a damn good one and the fusion and Taurus weren’t it. I feel the same way about Chevrolet though. If Ford would make a combination of the Mustang, the Falcon and the Explorer and market them under their performance umbrella with the 480hp 5.0L Coyote V8/10-Speed auto, RWD based, magnetic ride, Brembo brakes and all of that stuff Ford would really have something on their hands. It would also allow them to better utilize some of the GT350 stuff as well because who wouldn’t want a GT350 setup in a performance sedan or mid-size explorer like SUV. I would also say put the 350hp/350tq 2.3L Turbo Ecoboost engine in the base model and have at it. Like I said, Chevrolet could do the same thing with the new VSS-R platform and the Camaro, Impala and Blazer. People are dying for a new Impala SS, so why not have the VSS-R platform give us that? A lithe, lethal predatory performance sedan (even though that contradicts the Impala name) to challenge the Charger which happens to be one of the most popular sedans on the road today. Yeah of course it will have other engines besides the V8 like say for instance the 2.7L 310hp turbo-4 cylinder bumped up to about 350hp with the 10-speed and AWD options but quite naturally above that should be a 495hp 6.2L LT1 V8 and above that the LT5. All of those engines should make their way into the Camaro as well along with the new Blazer which should go on this platform as well to contend with the upcoming CD6 chassis Explorer. With that both GM and Ford would have an amazing lineup of cars that people would want to buy. Ford is already coming out with the Bronco, whatever that other SUV is and they have their Expedition and the Truck lineup (which does need improvement) Chevy has the Cruze, the Malibu (both of which need changes but need to stay) the Equinox, the Traverse, the Colorado (Which needs an SUV counterpart) the Tahoe/Suburban and the Silverado lineup (Which needs a 1500 ZR2 and a 1500 SS model both with V8 engines and the ZR2 needs a Duramax V8 option). Other than that, Ford needs to fix Lincoln and that’s about it for the most part.
If you broke that into paragraphs then I’d finish reading it.
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