Richard Hammond drives the new Ford Mustang Mach 1

I'm in my 67 Mustang on my way to Ford's secret testing facility, just off the A127, next to Billericky Town football club, for the world's first remote control test of the new Ford Mustang Mach 1. That's right , rather than wax lyrical about it. What I like about the car are your questions that you should address today with me behind the wheel under your remote control. I asked you to tell me what you like about Mustangs and the answers that appeared on some of them were a little off topic. Drake Logan's question. Regarding the new

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it was where is the new episode of the grand tour? someone named mills rose made the clever spotting horse very fast yes nelson i'm sure that's right this is the new

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to the untrained eye it might look like a run of the mill mustang but as any enthusiast will tell you the

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1 is not a standard model.

This new one comes with plenty of subtle upgrades, courtesy of a host of performance parts borrowed from the excellent GT350 up front, there it lives and breathes. a 5 liter v8 producing 454 brake horsepower and a mighty planet spinning 390 torque oh there it's all squatting and it means I'm literally going to be the first person outside of Ford UK to drive this thing and I'm very excited, but today is It's not about me, it's about you and me, have you taken any kind of design cues from the original 1969 model and if you have, how have you implemented it into the new modern design ?

Well, Joe, it's packed with design cues reminiscent of the Mustangs of yesteryear. its stance, the headlights may have a different shape now, but it still has hooded eyes to give it that mustang fran, there are vents in the hood, the sculpted sides, but specific to the 69 mach 1, on any outer edge of this wide grille, they have Remember the original fog lights have a similar graphic treatment and then as we go down its flanks at the rear there is a small lip spoiler, it has chrome exhaust tips so the design references to the original Mach 1 are there , it also has Mach 1 written several times.

Hi Richard, I just want to know two things. Does it come with explosive punk? What is the gas mileage? Well, semi interesting. All ski instructor meets famous crocodile fighter environment. For your questions, he has a 12-speaker premium sound system and if you're worried about miles per gallon, this is probably not the car for you. One thing you may have noticed is that I, as a remote control car tester, am about to get on the wrong side of this car, but don't worry when it goes on sale in the UK, they will put the steering wheel on the right side. right for you, right, oh boy, here we go, oh yeah, it works, uh, and off we go, it doesn't feel right, this thing is fast because it's fast, it's got a huge va.

Hi Richard, my name is Vlad, I'm 24 years old and I've been driving a Mustang for two years. The special thing I loved is the custom exhaust. How loud is the new Mustang? Well Vlad, now you can hear it for yourself, what do you think? Well, I'm saying you can hear that the Mach 1 actually has an active value performance exhaust that varies the noise level depending on what mode you have the car set to. There is even a silent mode, I think it can be used if you live on a busy street and go out to work early in the morning and in silence, the noise of the V8 is suppressed to only 72 decibels, which is about the same level of noise it makes a bedroom.

Start it up and it gets much stronger, as well as firming up the suspension. and back the crap and control, oh come on, Richard Mach 1 is 343 meters per second or over 760 miles per hour, so no, no, it can't do that, you'd need rockets in your car to do that and that guy of things in general. It ends badly for me Ford has not released naughty 60 and top speed figures if they have released them when you see this they will appear here Hi Richard, I don't have a mustang but I have always loved them, what is it like? the mach 1 handle in the corners because it's still a mustang after all, well to be fair it's been a while since we've been able to laugh at mustangs for handling like a grand piano on an ice rink, but the current generation of Ford has solved it.

If they've dragged the Mustang kicking and screaming into this century, it's an established fact. Ford claimed that the Mach 1 is the best handling Mustang to ever come to the UK, but hey, they would say they make it, however there is some evidence to back it up. one comes standard with magnehide magne that word suspension basically what you get are small magnetic particles in the fluid inside the shock absorbers, if you then introduce electricity you get magnetism and that affects the particles and it affects the fluid, its viscosity and it affects the damping incredibly. quickly, in fractions of a second, it's very, very clever, add to the mac specially calibrated steering, stiffer springs and limited slip camber and you'll start to see why it actually feels all those delicious taught and planted things that say everything What have I done. far is gliding quite gracefully around these gently banked curves I feel like I need something else I think I'll build a scientific test and this is what I did if you look closely it actually looks like a figure of eight and it's a very scientific method to test the speed of a car driving it will always be known as Richard's loop, so here we go to my new mustang testing device.

I can try a left turn. Turning the wheel counterclockwise works well. Straighten it out if I then try to turn right. Yes, that absolutely. seems to work, I just have a suggestion, as you know, under your control, would this test work better if it were a little faster? I just wonder. Don't know. I suspect it might be more, yes, yes, that's better. This has improved the test. Endlessly, all I needed was a little more science, in fact, I'm pretty sure the people at Ford can't see me, which is good because I'm not going to give away my test sequence, our test secrets, as well.

Let's keep this between you and I, oh, a little bit of off-track testing, that's good, very, scientifically rigorous. I'm the first person outside of Ford UK to drive this car and this is what I'm doing. An important job. My name is Scott Gibson. My love for Mustangs. from being raised in a family where a grandfather and father are huge Ford fans, I have a '67 project car that I bought solely for that and then while I was working on it, my grandfather passed away about a year ago before I I could get it running, so continuing to work on it now gives me that ability to feel like it's still there with me, but my question to Richard about the new one is is it a mustang that was made to give you that idea of ​​where it is?

It comes from where the history comes from, oh Scott, the harsh sense of history, I mean, this is much more sophisticated than the original Mac One from 1969, but 1969 was an era before adaptive suspension, exhaust traction control adaptive, even and the original Mach 1. It had a competition suspension that was good for its time It had a limited slip differential It was available with more power It was a muscle car and muscle cars were essentially versions of regular cars like your parents might have, but with a huge engine shoehorned in. shoehorned in and then Some other good stuff was added and in that sense this is still a modern muscle car, it's not trying to be a supercar so yes I would say there is a sense of history.

Hi Richard, long time fan and long time Mustang fan behind me. It's my father's 1970 Mach 1. It's a little hard to pinpoint exactly why I love the mustang so much, but I think one of the main reasons is the community around it, of course, I've bonded with my own father because of the mustang, but I've also forged so many connections over the years. over the years. I've met a lot of really wonderful people through a mutual appreciation for this car. My question is: is it worthy of being called a drill? Well Alex, it's a faster and better handling version than a standard one.

Mustang, in that sense, yes, it runs deeper, it is much more complicated than the original, but so is everything today and it manages to be faster and handle better without making a terrible fuss, it retains the feeling of simplicity and clarity. on purpose, so it retains the spirit of the original, so yes, it deserves to be called Mac. I'm going to give the cones one more spin just to make sure you know a little more science to do, hmmm.