If you want a faster car and more touchy throttle why didn’t you buy a 5.0 v8 instead of 4.0 v6? Or has Commiefornia outlawed that too?
There's still plenty of V8's out here.
Or he could've also bought a 4.6L 3v V8 for less than 13k in excellent condition as well.
That can be had at very affordable prices
Sorry for the delayed reply. Thank you all for the replies.
These are good questions, my reasoning for buying the V6 is:
I currently drive about 140 miles, to/from work, per day. That is if i do not go anywhere else. I have to buy gas every other day, three times a week at ~$50 a tank. That works out to about $650/mo.
In 2015 when I bought the car, my wife didn't have a driver's license. I was responsible for her transportation needs to/from work. This was at the same time that i ventured into a CNC machining business, which required a considerable amount of time to launch.
My daily travels were from Colton => Highland => Santa Ana => Highland => Colton => Santa Ana and finally back to Colton. That's a minimum daily mileage of 228 miles five days a week plus another 90 miles two days a week. That's 1320 miles per week minimum. How much more would I have spent on gas, insurance, and registration if I was driving a V8?
When my wife finally got her license, she decided that she would like a Mustang also. At first, we considered buying a new Mustang for me and she would drive my '05. Of course I wanted the V8! Because of my commute mileage, we shifted focus to the 4 cylinder EcoBoost.
As much as I would like a new car to commute in, I needed to be realistic. Driving a new car to death was not a viable. After the '05 left my wife stranded once, it was clear that the new car should be hers.
We decided that new car payments combined with my startup business expenses would be an unnecessary hardship. She found a reasonably priced previously owned V6 auto, at a local lot that specializes in Mustangs. Of course someone started the paperwork on that car just minutes before we got there. Every other car besides, what is now her V6 manual, was a V8. I didn't feel that she needed a V8 for her first car, so a second V6 it was. She loves that car, it is reliable, and it makes her really happy, that's what is really important.
My car wholesaler neighbor gets '05-'09 V8s in frequently. He always makes it a point to park them right in front of my unit, telling me that I should upgrade. Some day, the right Boss 302 will enter my life. But for now, I will drive this motherfraker until it dies.
I really should have bought some suckbox hybrid POS, but I just can't bring myself to go that route. Why the V6? Because... Business decisions.