re: My son turning 18 - gift ideas?

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What’s he drive? My son’s car came with a track day, but he was too young to use it. Probably should get him another for his 18th. IDK though, don’t really want him messing up his car.

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I got him this: 2020 Mustang Ecoboost High-performance with the Performance Handling Package.

That article is exactly the car. I tinker with restoring Mustangs as a hobby. He learned to drive in a Mustang GT with a stick. Since we got the 2020, we've lowered it, adjusted the camber, increased airflow to the turbo, added a performance catted downpipe, throw-out valve, catch-can, stainless overflow, replaced the stock brakes with Brembo brakes and disks and tuned it to E-30 fuel and a customized Magnaride profile for track days. We've increased RWH to 385 from 330 and gone as far as we can without swapping out to a built engine. You'd think that would be kind of dumb, but the lightweight engine gives the Ecoboost Mustand a much better, more nimble handling on an autocross track than a Mustang GT Performance with the heavy Coyote engine can handle. It definitely surprises people and handles autocross really well. We burned up his first set of crappy P-Zero summer tires. He's on AS tires now, and is wheel shopping then we're putting some Pilot Sport 4S summer tires on for his competition days.

If he wasn't such a good kid and didn't make great grades, I would be a lot wealthier, but this car and the racing was sort of my carrot at the end of a stick since he was 14 for working hard.