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Valuation · Ford · S550 · 2021-23

Ford Mustang Mach 1

5.0L NA V8 (Coyote) · 345 kW / 556 Nm · 6sp manual or 10sp auto · RWD
CONSIDERRated within the $30k to $100k band · 5 of 94 at this money
Research estimate
$78,500
Must gain each year to break even
+9.0%
The projection does not clear it, and nor does most of the library.
CarQuant score
62/100
Scored against the $30k to $100k band, not the whole library
Evidence grade
Researched
No Australian transaction of any kind
$78,500
$57,809 lowhigh $109,176
Researched, no recorded transaction
No published Australian result of any kind. The model postdates the Shannons archive, which stops in March 2022, so the value rests on the allocation cap, the original list price and what a new Mustang costs today.
Measured across this library, a value with no Australian result behind it runs high about seven times in ten, by a median of ten per cent. Read this one as a ceiling rather than a midpoint.

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Should make, typical example
$78,500
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No Australian sale stands behind this value, so treat the figure as indicative.

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Price history

Today $78,500 · modelled median at five years $82,850
Solid line: the value this library has carriedDashed from 2026: modelled · even money $69,678 to $96,697
The green band is the even-money range and the one to plan on: half of outcomes land inside it. The pale band behind it bounds eight in ten ($57,809 to $109,176). The path is this model's own: it starts along the momentum of its recorded history and bends toward its projected median as the horizon lengthens, so no two cars share a future curve.

The verdict

A defensible case with reservations. Scores 62/100, ranking 5 of 94 in the $30k to $100k band. Demand durability is the strongest input, risk resilience the weakest.
Running it costs about $7,180 a year (9.1% of value), which is what the economics score measures. All in, including the projected value change, it is $7,346 a year.
The model's five year median is $82,850, a +5.5% move, with the tenth percentile at $57,809.
Value is research, not a measurement. Treat the level as indicative and the structure as the analysis.
Evidence
Researched0 recorded sales
Off its peak
-6%
Value band
wide
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Scored against every recent Australian sale this library holds, half its values land within 11.2 per cent of the price paid and the rest miss by more, in either direction. Projections are therefore damped toward flat in proportion to how little is known, and the plausible band is never narrower than the error the model is known to make.
Short term (1-5 years)$7,346 a year all in, +5.5% median value move
Long term (10-15 years)Scarcity case already formed
Negotiate from$78,500

Recorded sales

No individual sales are logged for this vehicle.
The value is supported by the aggregate evidence noted at the top of this report, but the underlying transactions are not itemised here.

Score breakdown

Against the $30k to $100k band median
94 cars in band · ink tick marks the median
Ownership economics30% of total
67/100+12
Scarcity25% of total
51/100-2
Demand durability20% of total
74/100+8
Liquidity15% of total
70/100+18
Risk resilience10% of total
34/100-2
Sub-scores run 0-100 before weighting; the weighted total is 62/100. Medians are computed live from the 94 cars currently in the $30k to $100k band, so this picture moves when the library does.
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
Ownership economics30% weight
67/100
Baseline84 pts
− 9.1% of value a year to run-23 pts
+ Below its Australian list price+6 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)67 pts
Scarcity25% weight
51/100
Baseline20 pts
+ 690 survivors estimated in Australia+31 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)51 pts
Demand durability20% weight
74/100
Baseline58 pts
+ Seven hundred cars, and every one sold before a showroom saw one+16 pts
+ A new base GT now lists above what this car cost+10 pts
− A five-year-old Mustang is not yet anybody's classic-10 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)74 pts
Liquidity15% weight
70/100
Baseline12 pts
+ 45 days on market+42 pts
+ 60 sales a year+16 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)70 pts
Risk resilience10% weight
34/100
Baseline66 pts
− The volume car is the automatic and the collector car is not-8 pts
− Ford Australia has issued Mustang recalls, so the VIN needs checking-6 pts
− No Australian transaction behind the value-18 pts
Sub-score (baseline plus drivers, clamped 0-100)34 pts
Model output, not advice or a valuation. Verify independently before acting.

What it costs to own · about 6,250 km a year

Annual cost of access, excl. fuel
$7,180a year
Share of value per year
9.1%
Scheduled servicing$1,62023%
Tyres, annualised$1,10015%
Registration and CTP$86012%
Insurance$2,05029%
Sinking fund (failure table)$1,55022%
All-in annualised (a different number)
Purchase (model value plus duty)$81,640
Running costs × 5 years$35,900
Median exit, net of selling cost$80,810
All-in annualised over 5 years$7,346/yr
Share of value per year9.4%
Cost of access is what the car costs to run. All-in annualised adds depreciation, duty and selling costs across a five year hold. They answer different questions and are labelled separately for that reason.
Break-even appreciation, 5 year hold
9.0%a year, only to get the money back
This library projects
+1.1%a year
The projection falls 7.9 points a year short of the hurdle. On these assumptions this car is a cost, not an asset, which can be an entirely rational thing to buy but should be bought knowing it.
Purchase$78,500
Stamp duty$3,140
Running costs x 5 years$35,900
Selling cost at exit, 2.6% of the salescales with price
Sale price needed at +5 years$120,676
Storage
Bought at
No forecast is used to compute the hurdle. It is the purchase, the duty, any premium and 5 years of running cost, grossed up for the cost of selling and spread back over the hold. The projection it is measured against is the weakest number in this product and is drawn that way in the chart above. Transport, finance and any restoration spend sit outside it.

Specification

Engine5.0L NA V8 (Coyote)
Power / torque345 kW / 556 Nm
0-100 km/h4.4 s
Transmission6sp manual or 10sp auto
DriveRWD
Kerb weight1,750 kg
Built worldwideNot established
Delivered to Australia700
Effective AU survivors690
Australian sales / year60
Typical days on market45 days
Launch price$83,365

What moves the price on this model

Colour hierarchy
Original paint, unresprayed+6%
Factory bonnet stripes present and undamaged+4%
Resprayed after a front-end repair-7%
Options
Tremec six-speed manual rather than the ten-speed automatic+18%
No track history, on original brakes and tyres+8%
Undamaged bonnet stripes and front splitter+5%
Odometer sensitivity±1.8% per 10,000 km vs 25,000 km
Applied on top of these

Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.

Projected value in five years

Projected value at five years
$82,850
+5.5% on today
The model's figure. Today it is $78,500.
Even odds it lands between $69,678 and $96,697.
$57,809 lowhigh $109,176
The shaded range is even money and 39% wide; the outer figures bound eight outcomes in ten. Band width follows the evidence - a model with a tight measured record carries a tight band.
A weaker five year outlook than 51% of the library.
-26.6% weakest projected move in the librarystrongest +73.1%
Five-year cost of ownership
Value change alone: +$4,350 across five years.
Running costs over the same period: $35,900.
Duty and expected selling costs: $5,180.
Net cost of five years of ownership: $36,730, or $7,346 a year.
The projected value rise offsets part of the running cost. It does not make the car free to own.

The case for and against

The case for

Seven hundred cars was the entire Australian allocation and all of them sold before a single one reached a showroom floor. New Mustang list prices have risen about $6,000 since mid-2025, putting a base GT above the $83,365 this launched at, and a capped car that costs less than the ordinary new one is the shape appreciation starts in.

The case against

It is a five-year-old Mustang with 690 survivors, and nothing has transacted in public here at any price. The figure on this page is the ten-speed automatic, which is the volume car rather than the one collectors want, and a good manual sits $6,500 to $21,500 above it.

Known faults and risks

Risk 1No published Australian result exists; the value is placed, not measured
Risk 2The ten-speed automatic and the Tremec manual are different markets
Risk 3Check the specific VIN against Ford Australia's recall register
Track-use brakes and tyres$9,000
Bonnet stripe paint and front splitter damage from driveways$6,000
Ford Australia has issued Mustang recalls; check the specific VIN against the recall registerdocumentation
MT82/TR-3160 shift quality complaints on manualsdocumentation

Similar cars, and what they cost to run

Evidence behind this valueResearched · 0 recorded sales
Carried value
$78,500
Historical price
2021 · $83,3652026 · $78,500
Researched
An external source, but no itemised transactions. Indicative only.
Seven hundred cars, all sold before one reached a showroom floor

That is the central valuation fact on this page and it is a fact rather than an inference: the entire Australian Mach 1 allocation was spoken for pre-launch, at $83,365 before on-road costs. No worldwide production figure appears here because none was found. Seven hundred is the Australian number and it is the only one that matters locally.

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The support under the price is the price of the new car

Mustang list prices have risen about $6,000 since mid-2025, and a base GT now lists above what the capped Mach 1 cost new. When the ordinary car costs more than the limited one, the limited one stops depreciating, and this model had barely depreciated before that happened.

There is no Australian transaction behind the figure

Not one, at any price. The model postdates the published Shannons archive, which for this segment stops in March 2022 and ended for good when Shannons left the auction business in November 2023, and nothing public has replaced it. The value is placed on the mechanism above rather than fitted to sales, and this page says so.

Two cars trade under one name

The $78,500 here is the ten-speed automatic, which is the volume car. A good honest Tremec six-speed is $85,000 to $100,000 and is the collector specification. Reading one price across both is the most likely way to misprice this model in Australia.

The drive-side question does not arise, and that is worth money

This is a factory right-hand-drive car delivered new by Ford Australia. Every left-hand-drive American car in this tranche carries either a conversion cost or a conversion discount; this one carries neither, and no conversion premium appears in its options for that reason.

The Kerb weight field is empty on purpose

The published Australian figure is a gross vehicle mass of 2,023 to 2,150 kilograms, which is not kerb weight, and this library will not print one as the other.

What we will not sell you
We will not price a Ford Mustang against an advertisement.

No Australian transaction stands behind this value. A spec-adjusted figure built on it would look precise and would not be, so the report is refused instead of sold with a caveat. That goes for this car and 87 others. Everything above is free and stays free.

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