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I think a Mustang would be a great car to own, especially with a V-8 and manual transmission, but social media has ruined it for me. There are non stop videos of Mustangs crashing when leaving meets such as Cars With Coffee. Now, the Mustang brand is synonymous with this type of driving. If you bought one you would immediately be looked down upon.

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Who cares what the social media jabronis drive? If you want a manual V8 Mustang and can afford it, get it and have some fun.

It genuinely is just people joking. I've never met a mustang owner that got upset by the crowd jokes, and they often tell them themselves.

Mustangs got the reputation because they were cheap power with a solid rear end which made peeling out into a turn incredibly unstable.

"Mustangs are all exhaust until they hit the wall" - my ex

i owned one. it was quite loud. Not as loud as the 240SX i took the muffler off to have a shop look at it up the road, but still, pretty loud.

I still drive a 4.6L V8, though. Just not american.

I mean they're only as loud as the person with the saw is determined.

Ford uses large empty volumes in or around their air cleaner boxes in their "beefy" vehicles, it gives them a distinct sound. For instance, my lexus has the same size engine as a Mustang GT, but it does not sound like a mustang GT at all, because the dual air cleaner boxes are maybe 3% larger than the filter that goes in them. On my ford turbocharged f-150 the air cleaner was like one of those 3 gallon shop vacuums in volume, with a 1.5" thick air filter. Smaller engine (by a whole liter!), but much growlier and beefier.

Mercedes did a neat thing with the exhaust on the C63, where you could flip a switch and switch between "neighborhood" and "open road" exhaust profiles. I think it's one of the best sounding cars ever made.

You know I was curious about your statement so I looked it up and Mustangs have had independent rear suspension since 2015

Yeah, basically 1/6th their existence.

I've seen plenty of similar videos of Corvettes, Porsches, Challengers, etc. and it has no impact on my view of the brand or model.

You’re a better man than I, because the clientele has definitely ruined some brands for me.

Every time I see a car zipping in and out of lanes at 90 mph with no turn signal, it’s a BMW.

And similarly for the boomers with goatees and USA tees with Corvettes.

And similarly for Camaros with aftermarket exhausts that seem to exist for no reason other than irritating your neighbors.

I don’t want to be associated with that.

I know it’s shallow, but then again, so am I…

Congratulations you discovered confirmation bias. Now consider where else in your life you have incorrectly validated your own prejudices.

Lemme guess… BMW?

I assume anyone driving a Challenger or Charger is someone I need to stay away from.

Or you could grab a Dodge Viper before they're all crashed by their owners.

I put a supercharger on mine :D

I made my 90 horsepower Mercedes run on veggie oil. wanna race?

People don't look down on Mustangs, they look down on people with more horsepower than brains.

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