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Originally Posted by djsnoflake
They do not meet the 2012 regs. The Roof crush test went up from 1.5 to 3x's the vehicles unloaded weight. Same goes for the door reinforcments. They are being strengthened to take harder impacts. Currently The Mustang is up to the 2010 standards, but there are tougher standards coming. All of them have to be in place by 2012.
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I'm still standing by the assertion that we don't actually know that the Mustang wont meet those standards, we just know that it does meet the current standards. To my knowledge Ford has never commented on the Mustan'g ability to pass the newer rollover test one way or the other.
This is a point worth talking about because Ford had their own rollover testing program in place before the government conceived their own, and the truth is we don't know what Ford's standards are. For all we know Ford's standards are stricter than the fed and Mustang would have passed the test in 2005. That said, I do know that Ford plans to produce the Mustang chassis as is through the 2012 model year at the very least so, if there is to be weight gain, it wont happen until the 2013 model year at the earliest. And that jives with the new standards which go into effect for the 2012 calender year IIRC, meaning late production 2012 model year model year cars would be the models initially affected.