2020 Ford Mustang Ecoboost HPP Coupe Review (HER Certified)
Hold Your Horses.
Whenever I have had the opportunity to test drive a Ford Mustang, I find a way to tell everyone around me that my first car was a two-year-old Ford Mustang. In 1970 I purchased a gently used 1968 Mustang that cost me $4,000. I was recently out of high school and starting a job, so I didn’t have $4,000. Fortunately, my parents lent me the money and I paid them off at $80 per week for 50 weeks. It was worth every penny of hard work and savings. I loved my Mustang and to this day I know I will own one again … hopefully a classic and a convertible. In the meantime, Ford lets me test drive theirs.
That was then, and this is now. The 2020 Mustang Ecoboost Coupe was a whole other “horse.” The smart team at Ford have added a Mustang High Performance Package for the EcoBoost-equipped model powered by Ford Performance’s high-revving 2.3-liter turbo four-cylinder engine that puts out 332-horsepower and 350-lb.ft of torque making it the most powerful four-cylinder sports car by an American automaker.
Powerful it is. Once I was able to go from first to sixth gear on the open road, felt the rush of shifting gears and heard the exhaust tunes from the rear, I was back to 1970 on my way to a Billy Joel concert.
At first, the Twister Orange color threw me off, I felt like it was too much. However, after one day of driving and getting so many positive comments, I realized I couldn’t picture it in any other color and certainly not an automatic transmission.
(photo credit: Cathy Droz - HER Certified)
