Steve Cropley

摘要

To Silverstone for the World Endurance Championship, driving an Orange Fury Ford Mustang rag-top its maker had kindly put my way. I was keen to try this pokier 2019 5.0 V8 Mustang 10-speed auto (a recipe that struck me as overkill, in a nice way), and it was duly brilliant. In Drive, the inscrutable computer in its bowels swaps ratios imperceptibly, keeping the engine percolating at 2000-2500rpm anywhere between 10mph and 70mph. In Sport it holds lower ratios longer, often leaving out the top few. And if you operate your gearbox via the nice-to-use short-throw paddles it becomes impressively responsive, although the gaps between ratios are so small and you're pulling left and right so often that you soon default to a self-shift mode.