I am 16, searching for a air-conditioned aboriginal car that won't breach down on me. I'm just aggravating to see if a Mustang is acceptable for a aboriginal car.
Are they reliable?
Ford has a appealing bad rep, so I'm apprehensive how reliable they are. Thanks.

Answers :Yeah, why not? Just DON'T SPEED.

Answers :maybe a v6, but not the v8 for a aboriginal time driver...

Answers :They are good, but be accurate if you are because a 4.6 litre they are actual powerful. For a aboriginal car that affectionate of horse ability can be a little much.

Answers :it was my aboriginal car (2000 V6), i now accept a 69 (351 V8). i did a lot of crazy accepting (nothing too serious) in it.when i was done it had dents on driver, commuter door, tow angle into my foreground bumper, rear bonanza aching on both side. council caster unalighned if i took a absolutely fast about-face and hit the curb. it had a lot of afar and runs acceptable as new. it is reliable as hell, in animosity of the way i drive!!. you will be tempted to do the same. i drive sane now as i absolutely like my car (as i anchored it up).

its a acceptable car if you are acute and dont get into trouble.
warning: gas breadth aint that acceptable (its ok on highway), but you feel acceptable if you drive it.

Answers :Its a abundant aboriginal car and if ur gona get it get the v8 because if u get the v6 ull be adulatory u had the 8. It was my additional my car alone cz i couldnt allow it as my first. Plus the V8 4.6L engine was one of the a lot of reliable and best engine ford made.

Answers :I use to accept a 1965 ford mustang...pretty reliable...u charge one :-)

Answers :$4,000 1998 Mustang V6

$6,000 99 to 2001 Mustang V6

$8,000 V8 1999 to 2000

$10,000 V6 2003 or a V8 2001

Answers :NO. For two reasons. It's to abundant car for a 16 year old. And accept you priced allowance yet. If you can even get it.

Answers :I anticipate it's a acceptable aboriginal car. I'd acclaim accepting a abject v6 aboriginal though. I had one for 4 years. It was the a lot of reliable car I've anytime owned, had appropriate power, handled well, and looked great.

Contrary to accepted belief, Ford has put out some top superior articles this accomplished decade.

Also, do yourself a favor and drive a chiral transmission. You'll acknowledge me afterwards :)

Answers :the v6 yes v8 no v8 ability annihilate himself its got alert the power

Answers :i'd go with a 96-97 T-bird instead. Alert as reliable and wont accomplish you attending like a clone. Everyone and their grandma has a 5.0 mustang.

Answers :I anticipate allowance ability be a little top for a 16 year old. otherwise, why not?

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Answers :I assumption you should aswell analyze the allowance quotes for v6 and v8 afore affairs one, for archetype here: http://autoinsurance.hotusa.org
Guess v8 will be added expensive, abnormally for aboriginal time driver.

Answers :They are OK ...stick with the abate engine. Even the V6 is absolutely able for a aboriginal car. Just bethink that a mustang is a allurement for the police.

For assurance and reliability, Ford cars are about safe, anticipated and able ... they just wont accord you the solid yet fikle feel of a BMW or the believability of a Toyota ... they are about in between.

If you acquisition you accept an advancing band abaft the caster ... it'll be bigger if you apprentice to be a acceptable looser rather than a bad winner. Advancing active - acquisition your bounded SCCA affiliate and assurance up.

If I were your parent, I would apparently accord you something solid yet awkward :-) ... like my ablaze chicken 1976 Buick/Opel/Isuzu ... yes that was my aboriginal car.

good luck and breach safe.

Answers :Honestly, no.
I'd rather go for a acceptable saloon, rather than a adventurous one...

Answers :(Bad rep?)---not true---you been talking to the chevy owners or the acceptation owners that are enviuos of the aces mustangs----(and won't breach down)--any car will brealk down if you don't apperceive how to yield affliction of it -or you corruption it---i accept endemic 3 mustangs---from a 1969 428 cobra jet, up to a 1987 5.0 GT-i accept no complaints----but did bang a lot of acceptation and chevy anatomy with them,and accept the trophy's to prove it.--one added affair to watch---if the accepting that endemic the car afore you---never took affliction of it----then you are affairs sone one else's problems-----check account and aliment records----keep oil afflicted anytime 2500 to 3000 miles,change all oil filters air filters at that time--flush the auto if an automated anytime 40, thousand---replace the shocks anytime 25 to 40 if bare or not----rotate tires anytime 2000 miles---grease all grease accessories on the council and chasis anytime 3000 miles---grease foreground auto bearings anytime 40 thousand--flush the cooling arrangement every two years--peopel never do this ---then they accuse if they accept car agitation and they accusation the manufacturer------replace the universals at about 60 thousand--needed or not ,do it---i accept never had a ford artefact that had austere car problems and i got over 200,0 00on all of them---some afterpiece to 300,000---and they were still active acceptable if i awash them---

Answers :erm in a way they are actual air-conditioned cars but you are alone 16 and those cars are actual able mustangs are beef cars im alone 17 myself and ive got a 1.3 ltre ford fiesta and its my aboriginal car i reccomend this for you acquaintance acceptable luck sweet

Answers :Before you buy the car, accomplish abiding you and/or your parents can allow the insurance. A aboriginal car for 16 year old has top abundant allowance afterwards the added amount of it accepting a new Mustang.

Answers :NO, mustang is a sports car model, allowance is traveling to be rediculous, and with all that ability beneath the hood, the appetite to absolve it will happen, your allurement for trouble

Answers :A rwd car is not a acceptable aboriginal car decidedly a mustang aback it is acceptable to accept a somwhat able motor relitive to its weight, if it rains you accept the achievability of fishtailing and accident ascendancy of your car by applying too abundant throttle, or not bottomward the clamp enough.

In agreement of reliability, fords bad rep is alone a cary over from the cars they fabricated in the 1920's, today about all car manufacturers abode austere accomplishment guidlines to ensure artefact quality.

A 6 cylinder, mustang would accomplish an ok aboriginal car, or conceivably the 8 butt so continued as its an automatic.

Answers :OH YEA get the GT. Aswell get a convertible.
Have fun a be careful!

Answers :As a 16 yo, Some of the Mustangs are abundant aboriginal cars. (4 cyl or 6 cyl)
Your accomplishment should be concentrated on acquirements how to in fact drive, rather than searching "cool". I apprehend that this is apparently not what you wish to hear, but your assurance (and those about you is what is important)
Getting a adventurous car will could cause you to extend your abilities.
This is accurate of 16 or 46 yo.

I adulation Mustangs and accept had 3 of them. They can be abundant cars, but I would acquisition a low akin powered unit, and as you alpha to get your absolute acquaintance (after about 2 winters, WITHOUT traveling in the ditch,or hitting somebody) again alpha to advancement the power.

Answers :V8's aren't the best abstraction for a amateur driver, yield the chat of experience, your not allowed to leadfootitice either.

Cops LOOK for kids in adventurous searching cars too.

Answers :Yes. I would acclaim the V6 because it is added reliable than the V8 and gets bigger gas mileage. Also, I would acclaim a 2004. It is the a lot of up to date one and will accept the atomic bugs out of them all.

Answers :Mustangs are AWFUL in the snow, so if you reside in an breadth that get snow, you won't be accepting actual far on snow days. I would absolutely not acclaim accepting a V8, they are too abundant for an amateur driver, even a V6 is sometimes too much. My mother had a mustang aback if i was in academy and it bankrupt down all the time. Get a nice 4 cyl. reliable car. Maybe a Mazda or Subaru? I had a Sunfire if I was younger.

Answers :NOOOOO!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!@!

Answers :2003 Mustangs (V6 engine) I would definately say consider. My finace and I accomplished his '03 in June of '05 (he was 19 at the time; I was 20) and we accept not had any problems out of it that is annihilation out of the ordinary. (Normal abrasion and breach is all to allege of, really.) Ours is at abutting to 98,000 miles, and alone the pully appropriately far needs to be replaced.
Do like we did and aces out a zinc chicken one. :) If you reside in a baby boondocks as we do, you tend to allure friends, and admirable contacts you will charge afterwards on in the future. Accepting altered and different even with your car is a acceptable idea.

Answers :I bought one new in 1999 and now accept 115,000 on it and it runs the aforementioned as it did if it was new. However affairs it new I apperceive the history and that I afflicted the oil every 3,000 and kept aggregate up to date. There are two big factors you charge to attending into besides reliability. If it snows area you are you bigger be affairs a 2nd car for the winter. Mustangs don't plan in the snow actual acceptable at all. Rear caster drive, advanced tires and no weight in the back=stuck if it snows beneath again an inch even. 2nd factor, alarm up an allowance aggregation and get a amount quote. You will be abashed how abundant they wish to assure anyone beneath the age of 18 on a mustang. That is the capital admiration of a lot of adolescent humans accepting one is the amount on insurance.

They must, I accept never apparent a bus at a gas station.