Originally Posted by TKat13 (Post 1615547)

This is what I learned:
400rwhp - impressive and can hide the expense from the family, maintenance, take lunch to work.
500rwhp - getting serious and the wife's eyebrows are creeping higher
600rwhp - hp curve is almost pure vertical, so is your budget expense. No hiding this budget, you have officially joined insanity because you cannot justify any of it. (fwiw, 'but look at how happy I am' does NOT work)
750rwhp+ - Pure race car, no justification, just throw the budget out the window, you are way over your original estimate. Time to man up and buy her a mustang of her own, that is the only way she will understand.

as a sub note; from family and co-workers I never get ask how fast, quick, etc. The number 1 question is alway 'what is the MPG'; this deserves a slap on the back of the head, I'd drive a prius if I was concerned about that. BTW, it is 10MPG city, 14 highway. lol

Originally Posted by TKat13 (Post 1615547)

This is what I learned:
400rwhp - impressive and can hide the expense from the family, maintenance, take lunch to work.
500rwhp - getting serious and the wife's eyebrows are creeping higher
600rwhp - hp curve is almost pure vertical, so is your budget expense. No hiding this budget, you have officially joined insanity because you cannot justify any of it. (fwiw, 'but look at how happy I am' does NOT work)
750rwhp+ - Pure race car, no justification, just throw the budget out the window, you are way over your original estimate. Time to man up and buy her a mustang of her own, that is the only way she will understand.

as a sub note; from family and co-workers I never get ask how fast, quick, etc. The number 1 question is alway 'what is the MPG'; this deserves a slap on the back of the head, I'd drive a prius if I was concerned about that. BTW, it is 10MPG city, 14 highway. lol

Originally Posted by TKat13 (Post 1615547)

This is what I learned:
400rwhp - impressive and can hide the expense from the family, maintenance, take lunch to work.
500rwhp - getting serious and the wife's eyebrows are creeping higher
600rwhp - hp curve is almost pure vertical, so is your budget expense. No hiding this budget, you have officially joined insanity because you cannot justify any of it. (fwiw, 'but look at how happy I am' does NOT work)
750rwhp+ - Pure race car, no justification, just throw the budget out the window, you are way over your original estimate. Time to man up and buy her a mustang of her own, that is the only way she will understand.

as a sub note; from family and co-workers I never get ask how fast, quick, etc. The number 1 question is alway 'what is the MPG'; this deserves a slap on the back of the head, I'd drive a prius if I was concerned about that. BTW, it is 10MPG city, 14 highway. lol

Originally Posted by TKat13 (Post 1615547)

This is what I learned:
400rwhp - impressive and can hide the expense from the family, maintenance, take lunch to work.
500rwhp - getting serious and the wife's eyebrows are creeping higher
600rwhp - hp curve is almost pure vertical, so is your budget expense. No hiding this budget, you have officially joined insanity because you cannot justify any of it. (fwiw, 'but look at how happy I am' does NOT work)
750rwhp+ - Pure race car, no justification, just throw the budget out the window, you are way over your original estimate. Time to man up and buy her a mustang of her own, that is the only way she will understand.

as a sub note; from family and co-workers I never get ask how fast, quick, etc. The number 1 question is alway 'what is the MPG'; this deserves a slap on the back of the head, I'd drive a prius if I was concerned about that. BTW, it is 10MPG city, 14 highway. lol

Originally Posted by SuperMach1 (Post 1615564)

I told her you just got the wife the new gt and now she's pissed. You're making me look bad Darrell lol. she just told me to trade her EcoBoost in for the GT (not gonna happen).

Originally Posted by TKat13 (Post 1615547)

as a sub note; from family and co-workers I never get ask how fast, quick, etc. The number 1 question is alway 'what is the MPG'; this deserves a slap on the back of the head, I'd drive a prius if I was concerned about that. BTW, it is 10MPG city, 14 highway. lol

Originally Posted by 01yellerCobra (Post 1615570)

When I had my 01 I'd get asked that a lot. I usually had a couple people come over and check it out because the F1A was a "little" loud. It was fun to watch their jaws hit the floor when I told them. I usually average 13-14 around town and 18-19 on the highway. Yes, that was with hitting boost a lot. Usually after telling them they couldn't see the point of driving their econobox.

Originally Posted by SuperMach1 (Post 1615564)

I told her you just got the wife the new gt and now she's pissed. You're making me look bad Darrell lol. she just told me to trade her EcoBoost in for the GT (not gonna happen).

Originally Posted by SuperMach1 (Post 1616912)

It's so beautiful!

Originally Posted by ASH302 (Post 1615567)

some things are best left unsaid, lol :smack:
tell her GF gets ecoboost, wife gets GT, :claus:
or you could tell her to get a better paying job and call it a day :wings:

ASh