The Ford Mustang fitted with the 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-pot is not especially at home on the track. Its torquey delivery is more suited to carving corners on road, as it has the muscle to pull you out of slower corners without having to shift down.

This character becomes immediately apparent when you take the car on the road after having only driven it on the track prior. At least that’s how Matt Farah sees it after he had a change to try it out for TheSmokingTire.

He says it’s a more than accomplished road car and that it’s still good and enjoyable even in turbo-automatic guise. One of his few negative comments regarding the car, expressed whilst he was driving it on Mulholland Road, has to do with the steering.

It’s precise and well-weighted, but it lacks feedback. That’s apparently still a problem, even if electric steering racks have now been around for a while and have overwhelmingly become the norm in the industry. Some automakers are doing it better, but according to this vide, the Ford system is almost there but not quite, kind of like the speaker-boosted engine note…

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