New Ford Mustang May Have Electronic "Burnout" Button

Posted by samzenpus on Monday December 9, 2013 @11:02AM from the nobody-with-a-good-car-needs-to-be-justified dept.

cartechboy writes "Ford has decided to take the burnout into the 21st century for the new 2015 Mustang. The Mustang's new 'electronic' burnout system is intended to enable perfect burnouts every time, much like launch control has made it easier to accelerate quickly from a stop. So think of every new Mustang with a bright red 'burnout' button. While the details on how the burnout control system will work remain secret, it's possible that a combination of the features used in a typical launch control system, including traction and rev-limiting controls, together with a front brake locking system, could enable Ford to pull together existing technology in a completely new way. So far Ford has no comment."

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Re:1940s technology, here today! by Anonymous Coward · 2013-12-09 11:27 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's silly. Any traction control that can't be disabled is in a car that has no business doing burnouts anyway. It's not currently difficult in mustangs.