The Cheapest NEW 2024 Ford Mustang GT- And I BOUGHT It!

You know I can't help but feel that the two best moments in car ownership are the last drive of an old car and the first drive of a new car. Now I'm in our 2014 Mustang GT with the Coyote with our Magnaflow exhaust and guess what? I'm driving it to the dealership to trade it in on a new car and I'm old because it's bittersweet taking this really great car with 69,000 miles to the dealership and I can't help but think about all the memories that kind of we made in this car making videos with Tommy. You know we drag raced it, we had some great road trips in it that I'm going to think about fondly but I'm also about to pick up a new car and I will show you that in a second as soon as I get to our local Ford dealership. And no I'm not going to the Audi or the Land Rover Jaguar dealership here off to my right and that's okay. So I'll leave you guessing a little bit longer but I'm just going to enjoy this last ride in this Mustang GT and think about what a wonderful car it was and how well it served us and just how much fun I had in it. Our next newest purchase is the 2014 Ford Mustang GT the S197 body style. A lot of things about this car are proper but it's too quiet. Hey Tommy through the magic of video it's now the next day and Dan has completed our Mustang. Yes! So first of all let's take a look at what it looks like. I just love the fluted exhaust, stainless steel, you know fits really beautifully. Came out visually really good but we got to hear what it sounds like. In three two one go. Oh I got him off the line. Now that five liter took off the line well he's got all that low-end torque. This car makes its peak torque at 7,000 rpm. I'm not catching him though. What is happening? Come on what? He beat me. That was neck and neck and we got movement. All right here we are. Should I say I am pulling up to our local Ford dealership Brighton Ford. These guys always take care of us. We've bought a number of trucks here and now we're buying our first car. Can you guess what car I'm buying? There's a substantial hint right here because yep yep yep yep we're gonna get that Mustang right there. Another GT. So we're replacing a 10 year old Mustang GT for a brand new Mustang GT. I gotta tell you we got a really good deal on it and that's one of the reasons we bought it and it's the kind of spec I love which is everything you want and nothing you don't. Actually you know what let me do this. I'm gonna it's very dark here so I'm gonna back up and I'm gonna pull this into the row of Mustangs up there for now at least and then they can move it whenever they want. They have a couple here. They have that yellow one which somebody ordered is right there. That one is $59,000. They have the EcoBoost convertible and then they have these two white ones and white ones quite honestly don't work for us and neither does this black one and the reason for that is because they don't really do well on camera. So let me let me open the door here and I'll show you the one that we're saying goodbye to today or I'm saying goodbye to. Like I say it is a little bit bittersweet but oh my it's very slip here slicker slippery here. So this is the one that's going away. This is our long-term well I should say summer car and now we're gonna get one of the new ones. Like I said it's that one hiding over there behind the truck and I'm super excited. So so long Mr. GT. We had a good time. Really enjoyed all the fun we had together but now it's time for an all together. Well it's not that different. They're both five liter Coyotes but the new one has a little bit more horsepower. All right let me go in there do the paperwork and then we'll go for our first drive as soon as I've paid for it. All right here it is. Check it out. Our brand new Ford Mustang GT with the Coyote five liter. How cool is that? And I'm about to take my first drive in this dual exhaust and you may be wondering how much it costs. Well I'm gonna tell you that in the middle of this video and we're gonna tell you exactly what we got on it and how much we paid for it. But before we do any of that, I think we gotta go for a first drive. First drive. Best day of the year when you get behind the wheel of a new car. All right let's start this bad boy up. Dual screens. How cool is that? How many miles we have? Oh battery state of charge is low but the guys told me that as long as it charges up on the drive home I should be fine. If not they'll replace it. I bet you it'll charge up. Probably been sitting here for a while. Let's see. 258 miles to empty. They gave me a full tank of gas and I think we're looking at 15.4 miles on the odometer which is fine. I'm good with that. Now let me turn the lights on here. Now this particular GT isn't the fancy one. Like I said we like to get everything we need, nothing we don't. So leather seats we don't need. We've got cloth seats but it does have something cool which is, can you hear that? Yep that's the active exhaust. So we've got active exhaust. Holy cannoli look at that. We have heated seats. I didn't think we had heated seats. How cool is that? I guess we have heated seats. Who would have thought? All right my seat belt on and we're gonna take this guy for our first drive. Click it in and you may be wondering why didn't we get the manual? And that's a really good question and I would actually love a manual transmission. You know considering that this is one of the last VA standing. As you guys know the Camaro is gone. The Dodge Charger Challenger twins are gone and so Ford's the last muscle car or it's this pony car standing and I would love to have it with a manual transmission but because we do video reviews and we do long-term testing which is what this is for, most people are going to buy the automatic. So we'd like to get what most people get and also it's a lot easier to sell at the end of the year when we're done with this. When I went to trade in the other one I remember Josh, the sales manager here, he asked me how many miles, what year, what civilian and then he said automatic or manual and we said manual. He kind of gave me this look like please say it's not a manual and I was like no no no it's an automatic. Much harder to sell even though as an enthusiast I love them but as a businessman you got to go with the automatic and the 10 speed isn't bad. Oh I love the sound of that. Love the heated seats. How exciting. Smells like a new car. Gotta get used to these dual screens. Apparently if I remember right you can change the dials. We'll do that a little bit later. Right now I just want to concentrate on what it's like to drive this. We've gone up in horsepower because we got the active exhaust. Normally this 5 liter has 460 horsepower. The old one was 420 but you get 20 more with the active exhaust so we're at 480 horsepower. Gosh when I was in high school 480 would have been mind-blowing and now you can get it at your local Ford dealership out of a GT. Oh yeah it feels good. Thick steering wheel. I don't really want to give it the beans. I don't want to break this engine in. Oh it steers really well. It feels like it's got a lot more natural athletic ability than the old one. The old one just felt heavy and actually let me turn the light on in here. See if I can move my light. The old one felt heavy and you know a straight line performer. This feels like it'll actually go around a corner. I don't want to go to red line. Oh that is incredible. Well guys I am over the moon. Love the Ford Mustang GT 5 liter with the Coyote. It's just an American classic. Can't wait to go drag racing this after we break it in. Can't wait to do some more videos but I promised you that we're going to talk about the features, how much we paid for it and of course why this is the perfect Mustang in my opinion and that is coming up right now. Well there it is Tommy in the daylight. What do you think of it? Oh dad it's beautiful. I'm really excited about this car because I'm a big Mustang fan, big fan of V8s and dad I was just thinking about this. This could be the very last new V8 we buy. They're getting rarer and rarer and more expensive because they're typically now relegated to really high-end cars so this is a big day. Yeah it's the last muscle car standing. Of course Dodge gone. Camaro gone. Yep when I say Dodge I mean most of the brand is gone. Not just the Charger and Challenger. Hopefully they'll replace them with something but let's talk about the finances and how much we paid for this. As you know I'm a big believer in getting everything you need and nothing you don't. Yeah for sure dad and back when you were a kid in 1932 a flathead V8 was probably three pennies and a raspberry but nowadays V8s are expensive and the Mustang's expensive but as sports cars go especially V8 powered ones this is about as cheap as you're going to find. Yeah so do you have the Monroney? I do I have the Monroney. So here's the thing dad right. Realistically it would be possible to get a cheaper Mustang from an MSRP standpoint but for what we paid for this vehicle it's about as cheap as you're going to get because we got a substantial discount which we'll talk about in a little sec here. So here is the sticker so 2024 GT Coupe five liter V8. Now the sticker price on this one $47,910 and that is not cheap by any stretch of the imagination. It's actually right on line with average new car transaction price in 2024 but dad we didn't pay $47,910. What did we actually pay? We got $5,000 off right? We got $5,000 off on the sticker so that takes it down to $42,000 and then they gave us almost $20,000 in trade on the old Mustang. So the final number and I want to show that don't put that away and I want to show what we got on it. The final number we paid was $26,499 with the trade and with taxes. That was everything out the door. So with taxes and registration fees and whatever we were in at about $46,000. $45,000 exactly when you account for the trade and that kind of thing. Now let's talk about this everything you need nothing you don't that I was talking about so why don't you show them what options we got because this doesn't have many options which is what I love about it. Yeah well this is a base GT Coupe so it's not a premium it's not a dark horse. It's not a performance pack. It doesn't have the performance pack no so it only has a couple options. So first of all it does have the Equipment Brute 301A which gives you Sirius XM and then the dual zone electronic auto temperature control that's $2,000. On the 10-speed automatic $1,600 and the active valve exhaust was another $1,225. So you could save some money if you went with other options that that didn't include the valving and some of the convenience features here. But here's the thing that you just walk in off the street and ended up buying this for basically $42,000 which is about as cheap as you're going to get a new Mustang and how did you do that? Did you have to pull like some YouTuber strings? How were you able to do that? No so at Brighton Ford where we get all of our Fords they're mainly a truck dealership and they were telling me that what they had to do was they had to order these way back in the summer and of course the way things work is they don't show up in the summer when people want them Those geese are loud aren't they? Be quiet please. They don't show up in the summer but they deliver these Mustangs to them in the winter in Colorado where a rear-wheel drive sports car is not exactly highly sought after. Right and if you go on the website I mean they have other Mustangs in stock that are also like $4,000 to $5,000 off sticker so we didn't get any kind of special treatment we just basically walked in off the street. I know like other dealers in the U.S. are still charging sticker some are charging over sticker don't do that if you're going to buy one of these cars take a weekend and travel somewhere go to Boise come to Denver go to Montana right and you'll often find dealers are much more willing to give you a break on the price on these new Mustangs Yeah and what I love about this is the color Tommy and of course look there's a lot of features that we didn't get if we show them the interior it's a it's a sea of black and gray right it's not exactly exciting back here there's a little bit of leather but most of it is cloth but you do get the two big screens and you get the most important feature in my mind you want to start it up yeah you want to hear the active exhaust yeah start it up would you yep okay go for it okay hang on I'm going to put it in the quiet mode he's going to start in quiet mode it's stuck here we go all right here comes the quiet mode are you ready oh man dad this system's a little slow to boot up it's still good thing we rehearsed this Tommy it's not booted up yet is it cold getting to it it's just flashing the Mustang logo oh god yeah we got like come on like 20 miles here we go okay it's it's booted up all right here's the quiet mode are you ready all right that's quiet here comes the normal mode all right here comes a sport mode and here comes the track mode yeah that is fantastic that's got to be one of the best exhaust notes yeah now look dad as you mentioned right um the interior is not super fancy it doesn't have like the fancy seats um we don't have like um the the performance seats by any stretch of the imagination these are the cumbers seats they are um power adjustment forward and back power adjusted on the driver's side on the driver's side yeah you do have lumbar control but the passenger side is full manual um we do have heated seats which is great but no ventilated seats no um adaptive cruise control right just standard cruise control we do have blind side monitoring yeah standard it's pretty cool and the coolest thing is when you get that active exhaust you not only get a cooler better more well let's say American sounding Mustang you also get what Tommy we get a little bit more power exactly so the power rating jumps up to 480 oh I take that off pulls off the camera oh look at that yeah 480 horsepower and then um torque jumps up to 415 now that this is the new gen 4 coyote v8 they've got this new dual intake setup they've changed some stuff around with the oil pan and in the new s650 mustang um it you know it's supposed to be a more responsive more powerful engine it's not that different than the s550 generation of Ford would disagree well they will this is all new chassis all new engine yes but it's realistically that it's it's it's a heavy evolution yeah but for example stuff like the wheel base right pretty much the same um a lot of like the structural components are pretty similar yeah so there were really two main reasons we bought this number one we love muscle cars and this is it yep you know farewell to the v8 uh gm said they're going to do another generation uh but we'll see right uh we'll certainly see if they put in the camaro and the other reason is you know we did a lot of drag racing in the previous mustang and it became kind of the the bar for you know american quick fast muscle cars and so this summer when it warms up we'll do a lot of drag racing with this and this will become the new bar since it's a new mustang and we have to talk about the elephant in the room which is what well we didn't get the manual transmission oh we didn't get the manual right and a couple reasons for that we've got uh several videographers that don't know how to drive manual so you got to have the auto so that videographers can move it around yep um and b for resale value uh when you trade it in the old mustang they flat out said if it was a manual they probably would have a much harder time selling it well what happened was he asked me is it an automatic and then he kind of paused and said manual and i said don't worry it's an automatic and as much as i love manuals and i would for myself personally i'd love to have a manual especially since they're also going away at some point we're going to keep this for a year do a long-term review with it and we have to move it on and the market for manuals is much smaller right even for enthusiast cars yeah for sure and this is a good it's a 10 speed i mean it's great great and look here's the other thing so when i was a kid right manuals were more fuel efficient this is when you could trade a haircut for a car remember yeah and a raspberry back in 1932 yes yeah so manuals were more fuel efficient than they were quicker yes and that has flipped on its head right so now manuals are slower and they use more fuel so if you're a true enthusiast and you're buying a sports car do you want the faster one or do you want the slower one just because it's more engaging to drive it's a decision you guys have to make for yourself yeah we also don't have the drift brake so s650 debuted that cool electronic drift brake yeah where are you going to do that realistically probably nowhere you're going to do that here and then have the police come yeah we don't have like the california special package or like the night package um certainly the course package yeah it certainly isn't a dark horse certainly isn't the shelby which isn't out yet but i think it's going to be a good bench line dad um and i also want to see you know for 42 what we paid for this vehicle is it good value over the year we're going to find out some reliability stuff and get you a full ownership report on the s650 mustang yeah the only thing that i don't like about it uh and now they're becoming a little passé are the black wheels you know for a long time like the black wheels were super popular and super hot i think it'd be fun to change this out into something different a little bit more modern a little bit more uh you know now versus five years ago but look at this that 18 inch wheel look at how fat that sidewall is it gives this thing a great ride right you don't have some little rubber band profile you got a nice fat tire so i do like that about it yeah and we actually have rembo so you can pay for uh you know the special blue brembos but these are also brembos well performance pack it's also improved braking performance yeah and you get like a stabilizer bar across it yeah you get the strut bar and you get a bunch of other things this also is the 315 axle ratio so it's not it's not the screamer but it has the uh limited slip does have a standard lsd yeah which so once again everything you need and nothing you don't and i'm super excited i can't wait to spend a year with this mustang getting to know it drag racing it doing a bunch of videos with it it's going to be a lot of fun well let us know what you guys want to see with the mustang in the comments below and as always it's been tommy and roman saying we'll see you next time ciao