2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost High Performance Package - POV First Impressions 

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*litterally nobody would expect a 4cyl in that thing*

Nothing beats the V8 sound but man, those ecoboosts are really impressive and you'd be surprised at how much they can go.

I can't be the only one who thinks it doesn't sound too bad, right?

My mind likes the HP and torque figures but my ears and heart just can’t accept the sound

He said this thing is quite the weapon on the street he’s not lying 😂

The gtr at the beginning tho

Love the car, but 43k it too much. Not dissing the 4 banger, its a great engine (for a 4cyl) but for 43k you can get ALOT of other good vehicles

I drove an Ecoboost convertible rental car this summer. It's a lot of fun. And it has a surprising amount of get up and go for a 4 cylinder. But you're right, that 10 speed auto transmission is all over the place. I'm sure it's all for gas mileage and the low 0-60 time, but it's a bit of a pain in the ass to drive on a daily basis in town because it doesn't downshift fast enough. You have to use the paddles to get it to do what you want it to do.

Your POV videos are so unique. And you go over everything too.

Man you have such a soothing voice, I hope you continue to work in automotive space becuase I love watching your videos, not only becuase they are fun to watch, but they are so informative!

This thing hunts for gears like Elmer Fudd

I used to be a die hard manual fan until I had to sit in bumper to bumper traffic every day after work.

Great video as always. Tedward, yourself and the WRM channel all have great content.

At that price tag, I'd rather get a GT premium

Thank you for the drive. I appreciate it. First the transmission. This car with auto tranny was mainly designed for daily drive and fuel efficiency in mind. I'm not surprised one bit that it isn't that great in sport mode. If you're in sport mode and blasting back roads, this car should be in manual using the paddle shifters for performance driving. I guarantee that you can shift the car much better than it can shift itself when burning back roads. I owned a MB SLC300, 4 cyl, auto. and it's basically the same type of setup. In manual mode I could hold gears around corners and shift myself on the straights much better than the car could do it itself., for highway driving leave it in comfort or normal and let it do its thing. 2nd is the sound. the 4 cyl gives the driver and passenger decent thrill without alerting every cop within a mile of your presence which is great for tooling back roads. 3rd is the engine.. holy shit does this car freakin fly, 20 yrs ago a 4 cyl couldn't get out of its own way and now look at what Ford has done, very freakin fast pony car, it flat out hauls ass and handles like a dream. I'm not saying it's better than a GT, I'm saying it serves a role. It's for owning back roads on a weekend morning or daily driving to work without breaking the bank or losing your license. If you have a half hour commute or longer there's a good chance you drive partial highway and the rest back road. This car gives you the ability to have some fun every day on the way to and from work and then mash back roads on the weekend. I'd take one in convertible and put it through it's paces every day but I wouldn't buy it new, let someone else take the depreciation hit and get one still under warranty. Great car, thanx for the vid

10 speeds are amazing on V8's. My buddy has a 10A 2019 GT and it is just beautiful. You can literally hit 130 in 4th gear

You can’t have the words eco and high-performance in the same sentence. I’m calling the police. Much love, your friends at Rev Media!!

$43.6k?!? That's SS 1LE territory.

That blinker noise is satisfying

The 10R80 in my GT works magnificently...especially in track mode!

I have this motor in the ranger great truck unbelievable how much pull it has

Can you hear the turbo whistle though? Since getting my 2.7L F-150, I've become a total turbo fanboy and much more open to the 4-cylinder mustang.

Recently watched 2 reviews of this car (obviously 2 different press cars based on color and interior options) and they were both automatics - get your head out Ford. You can have one manual in the press fleet... Those criticizing this car don't really realize that the Challenger is more or less the last "MUSCLE CAR" while the Mustang and Camaro are essentially sports cars. This HPP EcoBoost would be a blast on a winding back road (with the manual) but obviously wasn't designed to win drag races. If you add the HPP to a base EcoBoost coupe and don't go crazy with the options this isn't a bad value. It would still spank most of the cars I lusted after during my misspent youth of the late 80s - early 90s.

Super dope POV 🔥🔥🔥

Sounds like a CVT with all those gears

1:55 and a ton of space if you ever have to work on this thing. as a current minivan owner, just looking at how easy that fanbelt is to get to... sooo nice.

Love this guy

I just bought the convertible and it’s really awesome

I just purchased a brand new 2020 GT Premium in velocity blue with a blackout package for 42.5. No way should a 4 cylinder run you 43..

sounds like an early 2000’s camry with a hole in the exhaust. F

Right around when this came out I bought my eco stang! Since then the head gasket blew with no mods done to the car! There you have it! Engines are trsh TSB to prove it

Great videos👌🏽

The in-ear binaural mics picked up the engine sound perfectly, "MooooOOOOooOOOOOooOOOO" never sounded so clear ever before!

At 2k RPM, it literally sounds just like my dad’s old Toro Super Recycler mower 😂

i just bought the 2020 HPP ecoboost mustang with the 6 speed in january, its quick as hell and i love it. out the door for $32k, i didnt get the handling package, just a base HPP ecoboost. i didnt need the v8 and i do not regret my purchase at all.

The GTR just rolling by at 30 seconds in??

I wanna watch this video all day

7:58 I was reading the comments and I thought it sounded like a lawn mower, nothing against the 4 cil tho, it makes more HP than the v6, and sound is not bad for the engine size.

Reminds me of a cvt....btw great job always @thetopher

Would you be interested in a 1986 Mustang SVO with the 2.3 turbo? pretty much the OG ecoboost

My drive to work is a 50 miles daily trip, I thought a mustang was out of the question until this thing showed up

The High performance pack is a rip off and here are the reasons why 1. It weighs in at 3638lbs the gt is only 67lbs more at 3705 lbs if you got a base ecoboost it weighs 3532lbs which is a 106lbs difference 2. You can get a base gt with the performance pack for the same price or less. And the fact you could get a base ecoboost for 25k in some places means you could do about 17k worth of mods and be a lot faster over all. 3. The gas mileage it gets isn’t much better than a gt

Fun street cars ecos put in the work fun Rwd car especially the 10 speed mines pushing 384 torque to the wheels going 400 with few more mods

I’m manifesting it…I will have this car by 2023

I have the 10 speed gt and I agree it's all over the place. I can never predict an upshift or downshift. Mine shift hard on sport mode. I hope that's normal lol.

Love this car❤

Dang, the speedo refresh rate is really good. It actually shows each number at a time unlike most other digital speedos that will skip 3-5 numbers because it doesn't show fast enough refresh. That's about the only thing that's good about the car though.

you should do a review on the charger gt , interested to see what's up with that

Was in one last night as a passenger.... 4 cylinder turbo..... had me holding on lol

First upgrade "get the manual". First chuckle I had today. Oddly I'd consider this along with a BRZ though I know they're very different.

In drive the transmission almost acted like a CVT in some scenarios when shifting up at slow speeds. Shame, manual is definitely the way to go! Also a bit too expensive for the 4 cylinder Mustang

0:33 couldn't resist looking at the gtr at the end 🤣

Just add a cut out on the exhaust to hear the turbo whine and quicker spool up. Nitrous on a small turbo car is your friend a wet 50 shot at 4k does the trick for those track days.

The car is fun, but if your going to drive it. You should put the setup in track mode, then all of your sound, driving parameters work great and hold the gears longer.

For an EcoBoost.. it's got some get up and go to it!

I can't look past the droopy headlights they've added since 2018. They make the whole front end look like it's so sad. The really sharp and aggressive looking headlights on the GT350/500 looks so much more like a mustang should

And then at 0:35 🤣🤣 a blue Nissan GTR just FUMBLES around like “haaa.. I unintentionally stole all the attention”

I love for you to test the mach 1 with the handling package and the 10r80

the only reason i would get an eco boost premium over the gt would be the fuel economy. yes the gt has more hp and is a little louder and more fun the drive, but in the end i don’t want to refill gas ever 2 weeks.

Ok, so having been driving these cars for a few years now. If you put your foot down, dont immediately back off, the transmission in normal is going to shift to the highest gear possible bc that is the fuel efficient mode. with sport mode the car thinks you are actually going to be hammer down so it forces the transmission to shift down quicker and shift into lower gears more. all of your problems with the transmission would be fixed by keeping your foot down, not accelerating 3 mph at max throttle then letting off. other than that yes the GT is more fun, this car is if you want great fuel econ while you blast through back roads. these 4 cylinders are super fun if you know how to open them up and not be afraid of them.

0:33 that GTR looks so clean

The 10 speed on the 5.0 has no delay in upshifting so idk why this one does have a delay. I mean like when I'm flooring it in the 5.0, the upshifts are just as fast as with a DCT.

Bad ass little 4 cylinder

My roommate just bought a 2020 GT Premium Performance Pack for $45k. Unfortunately I don't see this as being a good value.

Love mustangs, I absolutely love ‘em. 43k is too much for a 4. I’d spend way less on a 2018 with the 10 speed. Sorry Ford, you lost me on this one.

After watching you drive the V8 Convertible with the 6-Speed Manual a few weeks ago, this doesn't quite do it for me lol. It's still a fun car, but go get the GT instead. The price of this vehicle is crazy for $43k. For that same price and in some cases even less, you can get a new GT with PP1 and a Manual on it... the choice is clear to me like you said Topher, I'd rather get the GT. Which is what I did. Also I feel like the 10-Speed is hunting for way too many gears in this thing, yikes.

How would you compare the driving experience to a 2020 GTI? It was between this car and a GTI for me.

That engine note sounds like an angry sewing machine... ugh. I know it's a 4 cyl, but Porsche can make it sound half way decent. Why can't Ford?

I know I'm late to this, but the 10R80 takes about 2-300 miles to learn your driving habits. Its a different transmission after it learns.

Looks fun for what it is. Cost is a bit of a downer for this setup, however let’s see what others in the segment will be doing.

Wow, this thing kinda actually gripped in the launch. Im so confused cause my 5.0 spins in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd no problem when doing a launch. I also have the 10 speed and its not awful, when it comes to flooring it, its a great transmission and when it comes to shifting yourself with the paddles its also pretty good, but when you're just driving it can be odd sometimes.

Thanks

dude the 10 speed transmission is designed to hold strong torque curves at low rpms while saving gas.. its literally a smart transmission lol

Awesome, very nice

AWESOME CAR

Just imagine if they would've just kept the 3.7 and added more performance to it.

The paddles help make it feel like a manual and make the 10 speed not all over the place

10 speeds is way to much!

I feel like 8 speed transmissions should be the legal limit for auto makers. 😄

I was able to buy a 15 Mustang GT PP2 with X-pipe rouch axle back with a '18 intake Lund tune under 50k miles for 28000. They had 2019 Ecoboost with 15k miles pp1 for 19k. I couldn't spend that much on a 4 cylinder

So the 10spd auto is no good? How about the 6spd manual having issues locking us out when trying to shift at higher rpms?

I have one of these and let me tell y’all sounds way better in person

What people don't know is this gets forged internals and a bigger turbo from the focus rs. That motor has made over 500whp on stock turbo which is nuts 😂not hard at all to make 400+whp in this motor in a lighter car, really an auto cross and small technical track weapon. The regular 10speed ecoboost has gone mid 11s jn the quarter without going nuts on stock turbo so assume pushing it on some slicks you can have a pretty cheap 10second car! Really not much out there under 40 that can do that til we see the new z😏

Looks amazing. I love that color. But damn $43k wow car prices have gone over the roof

nice car.love it

We just gonna ignore the casual GTR in the first minute?😂😂

i have this car in a convertible and love it

What happens if you pull the active noise control module off? What will it sounds like then

ONLY $43k for that BRAND NEW Mustang full option ??!! Dude I can't believe how cheap cars are in the US. Plus you don't get any car tax. Yet I still see people complaining in the comments that it's expensive... wtf ?! I wish I lived in the US just for cars. You don't even get a high mileage used Ecoboost Mustang with 0 option from 2015 for that price where I live.

I like how this transformer drives

I found out that Sport & Sport+ are designed more for use with the paddle shifters...

Hello, I may have missed it in the video but I see some ecoboosts with digital gauges (like this one) and some with regular mechanical gauges. Would anyone happen to know what package I’d have to buy in order to get these digital gauges?

Should I get this car I’m 4”11 16 and looking for a new car if not what type of car is best?

What’s the top 0-60 y’all have gotten on a 2020 premium hpp?

Because of the value decrease you can buy one today for 20-25k, which is pretty good. And for europeans this is much reasonable than the gt version.

That price is just outrageous for a 4 cylinder mustang to me

Topher checking out the GTR passing by as he talks about the car

so question what do you mean by mustangs lack driver feedback through the steering like...they are numb feeling? @TheTopher

why would i double the engine froma 2.3 4line to a 5.0 v8 for 100hp?.. and the 4 cylinder sounds great !