We’ve had a number of listener requestes to see a behind the scenes look at a media drive. So I figured there couldn’t be a better media drive to showcase than the 2011 Mustang Drive. So here’s day one with the 305 HP 31 MPG v6. The SoCal weather was good, the roads were great and the car was awesome. Check out day two with the 5.0L v8 in the video response box below!

Special thanks to Adam Barrera from www.highmileage.org for guest hosting and to Shawn Carney from Ford Engineering for melting the tires on our v6 for us.

Note: The audio is kind of jacked for the first 1:20 because I forgot to turn on the preamp for the microphone.

Here’s day two with the 412 HP 5.0L v8. The SoCal weather was good, the roads were great and the car was awesome. Don’t forget to check out the v6 from day one as well. Very impressive.

Special thanks to Adam Barrera from www.highmileage.org for guest hosting and to all the folks from Ford for providing us with this once in a lifetime opportunity.

So I’m a very lucky individual, and I happen to have to best job on earth. Case in point, last week the good folks at Ford invited me out to Southern California to drive the all new 2011 Mustangs on some of the best roads in America. So sit back and listen as we wax eloquently about the goodness that is the new 5.0L and v6 Mustang.

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Several weeks back Nick and I celebrated our birthdays with a podcast while were watching the 24 Hours of Daytona, with a few of our friends. (Yes I know this is really late deal with it.) Several beers later, this is what we ended up with. Much Toyota hate, a debate on the applications and philosophies of Drivers Education, some of Nick’s infamous news bits, and finally we wax eloquently about the 2010 GMC Terrain and the 2010 V6 Mustang which just happend to be living in the Burnout Radio stable that week. Then just when you think we’d be done we delve into the 2010 Buick Regal which I got to spend some time with at the Huston Auto Show.

We’re back from our yearly Christmas / New Years / Uber Laziness hiatus for the kick off of Season 3. This week we’ve got some juicy tid bits from the NAIAS briefings like the Buick Regal GS Concept and the 2012 Ford Focus. Then we shift gears to talk about some sweet new Volt Tech courtesy of OnStar, and Ford’s new take on Sync the are calling myFord. Then we shock the industry with the announcement of the return of the vaunted 5.0 in the 2011 Mustang… no wait that was way back in episode 68, but it’s official now! But wait there’s more! GM also announced a new special edition color for the v6 Camaro on top of all that we heard tail of the new Ferrari 420 Dino.

The new GT500 is like a snake, a very, very pissed off snake that’s looking to try and kill you and that’s what makes it so fun to drive. You always feel like you’re driving on the edge even when your not. This car is far from practical, but once you mash down on the skinny pedal none of it’s impracticality matters because once that 540 horse power super charged v8 starts to sing it’s siren song all you can think about is MORE MORE MORE!!!!!!

Without further ado here’s the video you’ve been waiting for and once you’re finished with that you can listen to our indepth review of the 2010 Mustang GT500 here.

That’s right this week we are reviewing none other than the 2010 Ford Mustang GT500! It’s big. It’s bad. And it looks like, given half a chance, it would eat you. What more do you need? Listen along as I try to review the GT500 and Nick keeps obsessing over his beloved Challenger.

In other news we found the widest road ever built. We now know why Nick is possibly the scariest driver ever. There’s yet another new Ferrari, while Mclaren is delaying the launch of it’s new supercar. Then Chrysler is offering exactly what we don’t need in a moving vehicle… live tv! We’ve also found some of the ugliest cars of the past 50 years, and Toyota announces the FT-86 concept.

Do you bleed Ford blue? If so then this show was perfect for you. Earlier this month we got the chance to attend the Yellow Rose Classic, which is an all Ford or Ford related car show held at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

Not only were there plenty of the requesit Mustangs in all varieties but there some anchient Model A’ s and T’s as well as a number of Tigers and Panteras. Not to mention some beautiful examples Shelby Cobra Kits and a handful of some of Ford’s more rare cars. Don’t worry you can see many of these fine rides in the gallery below. But first a little Yellow Rose history…

The Yellow Rose Classic is the North Texas Mustang Club’s answer to the demand for a quality indoor show-featuring classic, antique, and collectible Ford automobiles and trucks. This annual event began in 1990 with 50,000 square feet of display space at the Amon G. Carter, Jr. Exhibit Hall. Demand exceeded space and this show grew to 100,000 square feet of space in 1992. Show participants include individuals, Ford enthusiast car clubs, and both local and nationally known vendors.

-North Texas Mustang Club

And now a little Yellow Rose history for our listeners not lucky enough to reside in the great state of Texas…

“The Yellow Rose of Texas” is a traditional folk song which has long been popular in the United States and is considered an unofficial state song of Texas. The actual author is unknown…

…the song is based on a Texas legend from the days of the Texas War of Independence. According to the legend, a free African American woman named Emily D. West, a mulatto and hence the reference to “yellow”, seized by Mexican forces during the looting of Galveston, seduced General Antonio López de Santa Ana, President of Mexico and commander of the Mexican forces. The legend credits her supposed seduction with lowering the guard of the Mexican army and facilitating the Texan victory in the battle of San Jacinto waged in 1836 near present-day Houston. Santa Ana’s opponent was General Sam Houston, who won the battle literally in minutes, and with almost no casualties.

- Wikipedia

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So Ford has a really cool program call The ’10 Gets Unleashed where people submit their Mustang Dreams and then they get to go live them Vaughn Gitton Jr. style. This time around a student gets to challenge his former teacher at the track!

Ever wished you could challenge one of your teachers to a competition? Ford Motor Company gave Derek Murrell of Lake Mary, Florida, the chance to do just that, pitting him against his high school shop teacher Bill Rosenblum in a 2010 Ford Mustang GT drag race grudge match.

A racer in the local central Florida scene, Mr. Rosenblum was a big influence on Derek and his passion for cars. Hearing Mr. Rosenblum talk up his racing skills in class, it became Dereks dream to face off against his teacher and mentor. Derek submitted this racing dream to the 2010 Mustang Unleashed contest, and to his surprise, he was selected by Ford and arrangements were made to build and test Mustangs for a drag race.

To watch the entire “Mustang Payback diary from race preparation to the showdown, head to www.the2010mustang.com. While you’re there, be sure to submit your Mustang dream for a chance to have your story featured in an upcoming episode

There’s two bonus episodes but to see those you’ll need to become friends with FordMustang on YouTube

This week BMW is leaving F1, just in time for Shumacher to come back (at the time this show was recorded Shumacher had yet to renounce his come back). In the super car world Porche’s dream job just got a bit better, Ferrari anounces the 458 Italia. Aston Martin and Elite team up on the LMV/R , Jalopnik says we might have a new Bugatti, and Audi is tinkering with an all electric R8. On the American side of the pond, Ford plans for Mustang to join NASCAR, and Cash for Clunkers is already out of cash (and has since received $2 Billion in additional funding). Then across the Pacific Toyota and Subaru have united to build the Toyobaru, but now it’s leaner and not any meaner.

I love it when manufacturers create one off customs based on production model cars. Ford has done exactly that with the AV-X10. Check out the video below. Not only is it a cool one off custom car being auction off for a good cause. It’s built to pay tribute to one of my favorite airplanes the P-51 Mustang, and it’s sporting some nice nose art in the form of the Dearborne Doll.

Well this one is a bit late in getting to the masses. And that’s all my fault I’ve been extremely busy, and real damn lazy about getting these podcasts uploaded. But this episode’s worth the wait. We got our hands on a 2010 Mustang GT that Ford hooked us up with for a whole week. (I know right, what were they thinking.) After we put it throught it’s paces, which you can see over below, then three of us sit down and have a round table discussion about this reborn American classic.

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We’ve got a special show for you guys this week. About a week back I got to spend the day with Adam Barrera at the Ford Transit Connect Media Event. Yes, yes I know this episode is really late in getting aired but I’ve been side tracked with the new toy Adam dropped off for us. What toy? Well you’ll just have to listen to the show and find out. Now incase you guys don’t know who Adam Barrera is then you need to head on over to www.highmileage.org and check out his work. He’s one of the best freelance automotive journalists in Texas if not the country and he agreed to hang out with us on our podcast too.

We didn’t cover just a whole lot of material in this episode but we did discuss our thoughts on Ford’s new Transit Connect, and then we got side tracked with some discussion about “our fellow sideways hat enthusistis” as Adam would put it which led to topics like the new Ford Mustang vs. the new Hyundai Genisis Coupe, and the we geeked out for a while talking about modern classics like the Corvette and Viper.

So Vaughn Gittin Jr. is a huge name in drifting. Right up there with Tanner Foust and The Crazy Sweed. Apparently Vaughn got to live out his life long fantasy of drifting all the best tracks in Japan. What car did he use? Why the 2010 Ford Mustang of course. Which is only fitting since he is sponsored by Ford.

Why is this such a big deal? Because Ford wants to share the love with their new program The ’10 Unleashed They want you to live out your once in a lifetime fantasy in a 2010 Ford Mustang. All you have to do is follow this link and tell them what you want to do in 250 words or less and you could be one of 6 lucky people chosen actully live out their once in a lifetime opportunity.

SWEET JEBUS! The Mustang 5.0 will live again! Or at least it is rumored to be in the works. According to Jalopnik Ford will replacing the current range of v-8 engines in the F-150 with the new 5.0L Coyote V-8 which will be shared with the Mustang. What makes me all giddy inside is the fact that the block is supposed to made out of aluminum and the intake manifold is as well! No more plastic intake! Awesomeness!

EDIT: We’ve done a podcast on this very subject. Please click here to see what cars we came up with.

The title says it all. I’m looking for a toy and my budget is $5k or less. And i figured who better to help me decide what to buy than an internet full of gear heads.

The choices so far are:

• miata (until you’ve driven the piss out of one you just won’t understand, but this may help http://www.flyinmiata.com/projects/dog.asp )
• imprezza
• 300z twin turbo
• an f body of some sort preferably a trans am
• mustang, anything but a fox body, that is unless it’s a 5.0…
• on old vette
• jeep or maybe a ranger 4×4 trail rig.
• 3000gt but it’d have to be the turbo awd version and I already own one Mistu, not really interested in another.

I managed to get pulled over in Nick’s Challenger, Bentley has possibly the coolest Green car every in it’s e85 powered Continental GT. And this week for cars that you can afford we found out that the price of a 2010 Ford Mustang is cheaper than all of it competitors, and it’s time to wave good bye to Saturn.

Yup thats right, Ford doesn’t suck! At least they won’t in 2010 when they release the Taurus, the Fusion, and the new Mustang. While GM has increased their suckage 10 fold by canning their HPVO program (high performance vehicle operations), and Top Gear managed to crash land a helicopter in New Zeland. Just so you know, we screwed up the background music in the next couple of episodes, so it’s a bit to loud during the news.

All apoligies for the static at the beginning of the podcast, I think Nick was chewing on his mic, it only lasts about 30 seconds so you can fast foward through it. Anway you’ll learn all you ever wanted to know about classic Ford Muscle cars, everything from the Mustang and the Torino to the Galaxy and the Thunderbolt.

We drive an American classic in the Ford Mustang GT, discuss some crazy German burning his BMW, and talk a little bit about the new 500+ horspower Cadillac CTS-V. Then we rip on Nicks favorite the over priced Dodge Challenger.