Ten speeds better than nine? (or 8?) (or 6?): Ford Mustang cab 'BVA test
Because we do not stop progress, the Ford Mustang New Gen has a 10 -speed automatic gearbox.Is it really useful?10, is that the golden number of gears?Answer after a long try ...
I have the memory of American cars with completely surreal secondary multiplications, with relationships so long that the last three were not used at maximum speed.#overdrive.
Suddenly one wonders why, in American culture, Ford was the first to reach this number of reports in the BVA of a standard car.And one can objectively wonder why ... one can also wonder why they are so fans of CVT on Japanese cars, in particular and that as long as to multiply the number of reports to smooth the acceleration, they could have gone to the end of theconcept and put a CVT.
Just as one wonders why Ford has developed a classic converter BVA and not a dual clutch, as it is current fashion.However, this BVA 10 uses an internal "turbine" mechanism lighter 1 kilo: it is supra important, since they are masses in motion.The cards have been designed to leave more room for torque shock absorbers, for more sweetness ...
De plus, voici une bonne nouvelle : malgré ses 10 vitesses, la nouvelle BVA a les mêmes rapports finaux que l’ancienne BVA6. Ou presque : on était à 0,69 :1 sur la 6e de la BVA6, on est à 0,69 :1 sur la 9e de la BVA10 et à 0,64 :1 en 10e. Sur la BVA10, les surmultipliées n’arrivent qu’après la 8e : cela veut dire qu’on a de belles accélérations sur les rapports inférieurs.
On se retrouve donc à 2250 tr/mn sur le dernier rapport à 130 km/h, dernier rapport qui est même edouardophillipo-compatible, car à 1400 tr/mn (en 10e), on cruise tranquille à 80 km/h et on devient donc immortel, car la vitesse est coupable de tous les maux, c’est bien connu ! Sauf qu’à la moindre déclivité, la BVA 10 rétrograde, forcément. Enfin, ceci est un message informatif à destination de nos amis allemands : à 3500 tr/mn en 10e, vous cruisez peinard à 200 km/h, tranquille, avec encore une belle capacité de reprise. Voilà, c’est dit, mais ne me demandez pas comment je le sais.
Ah, au fait…
We are talking about speeds that earn you correctional courts, but at this stage of narration, I haven't told you yet, but "my" purple Mustang with black bands is not a GT.It is recognized by the fact that it has a "Mustang" on the center of the rear trunk and not the inscription "GT", necessarily.Just like a double and not a quadruple output of exhausts moreover, controlled by valves.So: it's an Ecoboost 2.3.Disappointed ?
Not me.Finally, not too much.Admittedly, and we are not going to lie or elude the subject, so it will be settled to the end of the article: Sound strip side, that's not it.No way.And again, inside, well, we hear nothing.But outside, we see (we hear, especially!) Although it is a poor 4 legs.Ouch.
And you have to ignore it throughout the times that we live with this car.Because I am well aware that when you buy a Mustang, you buy a piece of America and America is full of varied things, but with a constant: the glougloutement of large V8 in soundtrack.Not here.But America is also Stormy Daniels and the breast implants: on this side, the Mustang Cab ’is more than its rank, in the middle of a horde of Scenic, Golf and 3008: #Carporn!
And also #ratTrapage: at the end of the previous paragraph, I wrote "Poor 4 legs". Poor, it's not the word. Not at all, even: because if he lost a few feathers in his passage to the 2018 vintage (compared to 2017, tried for you in 2.3 BVM6, and which developed 317hp and 434nm, but it's for a good cause , there's a particle filter now), the 2,3 Ecoboost still has a little health, it is still the engine of the Focus RS! Indeed: 290hp at 5,400rpm and 440nm at 3000rpm, it is not veal Mi either, even on a car that weighs more than 1,803 kilos. Because in reality, the 0 to 100 is shot in just over 5.5 seconds and the top speed exceeds 230km/h, which is, we will admit it all together, quite sufficient today in our pretty Perriched and bearded world (by the name of the guy, pseudo responsible, who explains, very steep in his suit, that rotten roads, it's good for our safety!).
Pas déçu (du tout, même), en fait…
To be completely clear, this BVA 10 is the fruit of a collaboration between Ford and General Motors.It is therefore found inside the Ford F150 and the Chevrolet Camaro, in addition to this Mustang.This box is built in the Livonia factory, Michigan, an important precision!
So, in fact:
Alors, BVA10, ou pas ?
As far as I'm concerned, downright!Because by rereading my previous article on the Mustang 2,3 Ecoboost BVM6, I remember that I compared it to a GTI, which works mainly in the second part of the tachometer, and that, it was not too'Muscle spirit because.Not that here, since the BVA 10 allows you to exploit all the couple in the 2,3 Ecoboost and, although we can (wrongly) think that with the 4-cylinder, the Mustang is under-motors'Dare not imagine otherwise by shuddering the approval of this BVA10 with the big V8 which balances 527 Nm!I have chills just to think about it.Mamma Mia!
A Ford Mustang Ecoboost 2.3 starts at € 39,900.Alas, you have to add punitive ecology: just like its big sister the GT 5.0 V8, it takes € 10,500 of "ecological penalty".For the CAB ’, you must add € 4,000;And for the BVA10, 2000 € more, which makes us our minimum test car at € 45,900.The “Racing” colored bands are € 500 and the adaptive suspension at € 2,000.
If we look closely, the price is generally up of € 2,400, but it is because the Mustang has recovered full led lights at the front, ventilation gowns on the hood, a completely digital counter with a12 -inch parametable slab, an adaptive regulator, a heating steering wheel, etc.).
Gabriel Lecouvreur photos
