[Auto/Moto] Driving the Mustang Ecoboost Convertible Is a Roller-Coaster Experience

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I’m surprised by the speed it carries into the first corner, a hard right-hander with minimal banking that tries to push my tonsils into my nose. Frankly, I’m just happy to be alive because the journey thus far has been—in a word—terrifying. It’s also been awesome, ripping around corners like I’m on rails. That’s because I am on rails. This isn’t a corner-to-corner narration of driving a 2024 Ford Mustang EcoBoost convertible, which I recently took on an 800-mile grand tour of West Michigan. I'm talking about Shivering Timbers, a gargantuan wooden roller coaster tucked away in a small amusement park near the Lake Michigan shoreline.The Mustang, an EcoBoost ragtop in premium trim, got me and my wife there for a three-day weekend that was supposed to be fun and inexpensive. I soon discovered that inexpensive is relative, but I can confirm that much fun was had for both the journey and destination. Having owned three V-8-Mustang convertibles in the last 10 years, my EcoBoost experience left me with a nagging question. Do you really need eight cylinders to enjoy pony car life?The long weekend kicked off with a 2.5-hour drive to Holland, Michigan, to buy my wife some flowers—lots of them. The city sees approximately 5 million tulips in bloom from mid-to-late May, celebrated through the annual Tulip Festival. But the endless fields of color we expected were actually acres of dead flowers looking like torn remnants of brown paper bags. Had I checked ahead of time, I would've learned the mild Michigan winter had Mother Nature a bit ahead of schedule the year. The tulips bloomed weeks before our visit. Bummer for sure, but the big windmill was awesome.

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