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Red Bull F1 Reveals a Never-Before-Seen Variant of the Ford Mustang

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RiftHunter4@reddit

Is anyone else confused as to why Red Bull doesn't partner with Lamborghini for a special model trim? Seems a bit obvious.
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hi_im_bored13@reddit

Lamborghini doesn't touch F1, RB is doing this because ford is their engine partner
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Flashy_Bus_131@reddit

And because ford engineering is synonymous with killing the track.
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RiftHunter4@reddit

I mean yeah, but... here me out. A Lamborghini Temerario that comes in unique blue, red, or yellow paint. The Lamborghini emblem has the bull colored red. The Red Bull logo on the side with some stripes. Interior stitching is red, vlue, and yellow. Max Verstappen tests the car to tune more for track driving. His signature is on a plate somewhere in the car. Throw some carbon on the exterior. Does this not sound like the next big clout chaser car? They'd make so much money. Its the right amount of dumb and interesting.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

Whats the connection between Red Bull and Lamborghini?
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RiftHunter4@reddit

Reb "Bull" Lamborghini names everything after bulls and has a bull logo. I guess I'm the only one who's thought of this?
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franksandbeans911@reddit

Batman should drive a Murcielago.
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HoldingForGenova@reddit

Lamborghini, the same company owned by Red Bull's F1 competitor factory team Audi? That Lamborghini? No, no one else is confused as to why that doesn't happen.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

Red Bull is Competing with Audi? Their main adversary is Mercedes. Audi is just going to be a back marker
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HoldingForGenova@reddit

Speaking to the degree of competition, I agree with you. But that doesn't change the reality that VW group is a competitor on the grid, and Red Bull isn't going to partner up to boost the brand of a competitor.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

On a side note do you know why Audi is going to F1?  They dialed back significantly on their racing programs and dropped support for their TC teams and I believe they are doing it in GT3. I know several teams who stopped purchasing the Audi R8 EVOs because of how trash Audi was.
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HoldingForGenova@reddit

No, no idea. I think it made a lot more sense when it was Porsche and not Audi, but the general motivations and machinations of the VW group have always been a mystery to me.
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willpc14@reddit

Probably because Porsches sell themselves while Audi is losing sales.
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CaptainGo@reddit

Id be surprised if anyone can be as shit as Alpine
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ramontes@reddit

Red Bull is partnered with Ford for their new F1 powertrain for 2026. I suspect Ford's leveraging this new relationship for marketing.
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TheMaddSage@reddit

Mark my words… Shelby American is gonna take this car, put a kit on it and call it the GT500. Lmao
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Flashy_Bus_131@reddit

Except that there already is a GT500 and 350 this year.
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sadman51@reddit

That grill is awful. It looks just like the terrible 2019 camaro refresh. S650 was such a downgrade.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

I dont think its the bad. Still better than the S550 refreshed grill but I do agree that overall the Ford Performance Mustangs peaked with the S550
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Flashy_Bus_131@reddit

If we’re talking body style, so unbelievable wrong, S197 is far better than both the 550 or the 650. Then look at anything pre fox and those are superior to the S197
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narwhal_breeder@reddit

I stil daydream all the time about the GT350 - had an opportunity to buy one for $37K right before covid and I passed and im still kicking myself over it.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

Its okay, its definitely a fun experience but dont beat yourself up too bad. I had bought mine at that time and it was just a giant headache because it had a bunch of issues.  Killed my enjoyment of the car and just reaffirmed my decision to never buy another Ford again (my first car was a Ford and I had multiple problems and the service department was absolutely trash)
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narwhal_breeder@reddit

I had an S550 GT at the time and it was bulletproof - it saw 10 track days a year for 2 years and it was dead reliable - just sucked with consumables.
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bnace@reddit

It’s not bad on the non-dark horse cars, but the dark horse adds that horrible black vinyl looking shit to the front and ruins it.
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ishliss@reddit

The worst part of the dark horse is the grille is a flat black texture but then they also have gloss black plastics on the lower bumper.
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BetLeast4943@reddit

S197 was peak of the newer generations
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cyberrdrake@reddit

I told a friend of mine the EXACT same thing, definitely 2019 Camaro vibes, but better executed imo.
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Scarecrow216@reddit

This one gives me dodge vibes lol
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sadman51@reddit

Ya know I can see it a little. Like the SXT trim charger at the end of it's life before the new EV one.
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Scarecrow216@reddit

Yeah exactly
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GTE_Engineering@reddit

Just what we needed, another expensive Mustang. A manual GT is just shy of $50k with the performance pack pushing it over $54k. I think what we’re really missing is a stripped down “Club Spec” manual GT that comes in closer to $40k. Hell, you could even sell it with a cheap set of place-holder wheels like they did with the steelies on the base Bronco.
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franksandbeans911@reddit

Thought those steelies were on purpose. There's a baby blue Bronco around here with ....baby blue steelies under it. They are body matched, look very intentional.
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YellowFogLights@reddit

I liked the old LT1 trim Camaro. Basic model but with the V8. It just works.
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Slideways@reddit

> just as the Dark Horse was an effective successor to the now-departed Mustang GT350 Was it, though? Isn't it more like a Mach 1 or Bullitt in that it's really just a GT with a few extra performance parts?
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stoned-autistic-dude@reddit

The Mach 1 was pretty far removed from a GT. It had everything great from the 350 and 500 but kept the Coyote which is damn reliable. It’s my favorite Mustang of the last 20 years. I still have a deep love for the Terminator but this somehow surpassed it.
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RevvCats@reddit

The same could be said about suspension and cooling bits on the GT350. It got a modified engine, that’s cool but Ford also chose to nerf its performance by using a flat plane crank with an atypical firing order so it would sound more like a Mustang.
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Droopy1592@reddit

Counterwound springs, lower and bespoke front end, specific MR tuning, wider front tires Nerfed? I love my GT350 more than any M3 or GT500 or even a carrera S
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RevvCats@reddit

If they used a traditional flat plane firing order the engine could have revved righter and made more hp. They didn’t, that’s nerfing the engine [https://youtu.be/RcyMoZoqkPA&t=15m20s](https://youtu.be/RcyMoZoqkPA&t=15m20s) I never said the GT350 wasn’t fun or a bad car, but the voodoos potential was held back.
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Droopy1592@reddit

I bought it for the sound and handling The engineers said it had to look and sound like a mustang but handle like a Ferrari I love the way it sounds
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Slideways@reddit

That crank isn't keeping the engine from revving any higher. A lightweight crank changes speed more easily, but it's the cylinder heads and valvetrain that allow an engine to make power at higher RPM.
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Slideways@reddit

It's the GT350's headers that really changed the sound from a typical flat-plane that uses a 4-into-1 design. If they wanted it to sound like a Mustang, they would have kept a cross-plane crank.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

Thats what you call marketing lol
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lique_madique@reddit

Yes
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orhantemerrut@reddit

It was so hard to watch the video. There is a cut every two seconds. Every two! It's unbearable. I don't understand how people can keep up with the content when there is a cut after cut after cut. It's relentlessly distracting. I don't get it.
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Capnserious@reddit

The stupid front end looks like the 2019 camaro when they made a design switch after one model year. Looks awful
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Acevedo1992@reddit

That was the first thought in my mind too, “isn’t that the football helmet Camaro?”
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Capnserious@reddit

Good call out. I'm obviously biased since I love my car but I really don't like all these design changes. No matter, I'll keep mine for a long time
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ishliss@reddit

I hate the name so much. Was the perfect time to bring back the Cobra name but nope we’re stuck with the Dork Horse.
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GymLeaderMatt@reddit

Not a mustang guy by any means but I agree. Even NightMare was floating around before release and that sounded way better.
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YellowFogLights@reddit

This is the one I wish they went with
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ishliss@reddit

Someone at ford has a crush on Katy Perry.
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pridetwo@reddit

Or Nickelback
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BuckManscape@reddit

The timing of this article for ford, not great.
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

Why?
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ElectronicTroponic@reddit

They really should get Max Verstappen to be the driver to Nurrburgring  laptime for the upcoming track focused GTD 
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Nhojj_Whyte@reddit

Max *has* stated before that he thinks he could shave a few seconds off the GTD time at the 'ring. I hope this Ford/Redbull partnership and these promo videos are a lead up to exactly that.
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Seeker80@reddit

The GTD has already been testing some revisions, so there's an opportunity for Verstappen to do some laps,
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YellowFogLights@reddit

Ford teased it on their Instagram yesterday. Basically exactly as theorized. A supercharged Dark House with the Ford Performance kit from factory.
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TheMaddSage@reddit

More like a GT500 but with modified Dark Horse styling.
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Dazzling-Rooster2103@reddit

The wording the announcer used is the exact same wording used on the Instagram Teaser that Ford Mustang posted. https://imgur.com/a/WCsJJTO Pretty interesting.
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