one, two, three, four! Rev up your engines! It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel I admit it, I've been driving Mustangs since the 60s,
and I always believed you got to have a v8 engine, if you want to have fun
driving, but times have changed and so I have I, sure this new Mustang only has a 2.3
liter four-cylinder engine, but what a four-cylinder engine, it puts out 310
horsepower and 320 foot-pounds of torque, now you might very well ask, how does
such a small engine put out 310 horsepower, well here's how, first it uses
gasoline direct injection with gasoline direct injection it's more like a diesel
there's a regular fuel pump that pumps fuel from the gas tank to up here, then
this mechanical pump boosts it up to 3000 psi, then the high-pressure fuel is
pump the whole way to the fuel injectors on the rail, with your direct injectors,
they inject fuel right into the cylinders, and that's a more efficient
way of distributing the fuel, so you get more power and better gas mileage at the
same time, heck, I got 32 miles a gallon when I drove it going 55 miles an hour, not that
I don't fifty-five miles an hour for all that long, because realize, the faster you
drive, the worse you gas mileage your going to get, I'm a pretty fast driver, so my wife
would get 32 miles a gallon, but I won't, now the other way it makes so much power
is with this twin-scroll turbocharger, it's a modern design turbocharger ,that
works almost like two turbochargers, but it doesn't have turbo lag like two
turbochargers often will have, and if you look at the front of the engine, you'll
see there's a fan belt, it runs the water pump, it runs the
alternator and it runs the air conditioner, but there's no power
steering pump, that's because it has electric power steering, that further
gets you better gas mileage and more power, and you can use that power in many
ways, as you can see now it, idles quite smooth you can set it up for just normal
driving, or you can flip one switch turn the traction control off and drive a
little bit harder, and you can flip another switch, and you
make steering feel normal, sport, or comfort, since it has electric power
steering, the computer can adjust it lots of ways, but my favorite is the last
button, the mode button, you hit that, you can drive normal, you can drive sport, you
can drive track, or you can drive snow or wet, of course you know what I'm going
to pick, I'm going to run it on track even though you're supposed to only do that
on the track, that's why it's got little helmet sitting on the bottom warning you,
that turns a lot of the speed controls off, unless you get into a really extreme
situation, then it will put traction control and stuff back on, because
realize, modern-day racing cars even have traction control, it's on the far end of
traction control, but it's still there to keep them from killing each other, but I
do have to say one thing surprised me about this Mustang my wife actually
liked it, and that's because she didn't liked the way they rode, she said they
were too bumpy, but since Ford redesigned the rear suspension to join the 21st
century, and they now have a fully independent suspension in the back, they
really do ride a lot better, she didn't know anything about this at all, she just
knew that it road a lot better and she liked driving it, so if you're thinking
about getting a new pony car, you might think four-cylinder this time, and I
doubt if those 310 ponies will let you dwon, remember if you've got any car
questions visit the Scotty kelmer channel and I'll answer them as soon as
I'm done Road testing this turbocharged Mustang.
