Used Car of the Day: 1998 Ford Mustang GT Convertible

Tim Healey
by Tim Healey

Today we're back after a brief hiatus. We haven't had a Mustang in this spot in a while, so we're featuring a 1998 Ford Mustang GT convertible on this fine Friday.


It has V8-power, an automatic transmission, and just 20,000 miles on the clock.

It's red with a white leather interior. The car has a CD player, Mach 460 audio, and new tires.

The ask here is $14,000 and the car is based in Florida.

[Images: Seller]

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Tim Healey
Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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  • Wjtinfwb Wjtinfwb on Feb 26, 2024

    The slowest Mustang GT since '82, but an outstanding weekend cruiser if you just want to drop the top and blast some Journey on the beach road. The 2-valve 4.6 is the same engine in thousands of Police Interceptor Crown Vics, it's reliable as the sun, tough as a 50-cent steak and makes a little V8 burble. Much faster Mustangs are available for more money. And by the way the "Theft" light illuminates if the keys in the ignition and door is opened, which is likely why it's illuminated in the picture. IT has zero to do with the odometer.

    • Steve S. Steve S. on Mar 23, 2024

      Exactly. It's dirt cheap to run and fast enough without trying to kill you.


  • Sobhuza Trooper Sobhuza Trooper on Feb 26, 2024

    Drop a good, high-strung German engine in this and you'd have American flair with German repair costs!

  • Master Baiter But, is the EX30 as glitchy as Joe Biden on a debate stage?
  • Master Baiter We're a long way from the days when, if you had compression, fuel and spark, the car would get you from point A to point B. Now, cue the Captain Obvious NPCs who are going to tell me, "modern cars are much more reliable...blah blah blah..."
  • Jason Eliminating choices anything automotive relating, whether it's engine, trans, interior colors, exterior colors, trim packages is never a good thing. It's all in the name of automobile streamlining production. Choices have been going downhill for decades. The Detroit big three has been doing this by eliminating sedans from small econoboxes to large luxury land yachts. Take Stellantis as an example, since they took over Fiat-Chrysler they have discontinued models right and left without viable model replacements.
  • Tassos It seems that EV Volvos are just as unreliable as the GOD AWFUL Reliability ICE Volvos. Remember a time in distant antiquity (think late 70s or early 80s) when every college professor had a damned Volvo? (esp the huge Wagon version?) Even our dean and later U president had one of these. ALL of them have been replaced with NON-Volvos, esp with Camrys, some Accords, a lot of Subarus, lots of Priuses or Prii at a time, and more recently with Teslas.
  • Corey Lewis The Z4 looks better, is I4 or I6, has a roof that folds, a manual option, nicer interior, and a better badge on the front. With I6 it's within $10k of the Supra.
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