# Traded in the Grand Prix

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**Category:** PittSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [December 24, 2009, 6:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/traded-in-the-grand-prix/204409 "2009-12-24T06:20:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 28, 2009, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/traded-in-the-grand-prix/204409/44 "2009-12-28T06:39:57Z")

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> [@Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral and other gems](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nine-inch-nails-the-downward-spiral-and-other-gems/41875/6):
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> Why is there one in the GT500?
> 
> How about: Ford didn’t use a 6-speed because they needed a way to keep the cost down.
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> I would prefer that it had the 6-speed, especially with the 3.73 gears. It’s somewhere around 2000 rpm at 60 mph in 5th gear, so that overdrive gear would be nice. But if the car had cost more, would I have bought it? :dunno:

hehehehe

It all comes down to money.

It would be nice, as a gearhead, to have the 6-spd but all of the women and old guys who make up the majority of mustang sales could probably care less, they are getting the auto anyway.

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