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From a financial standpoint Ford is the most comfortable American auto manufacturer by far. Look at the cash Ford has and the profits it's posting. They are in no way anywhere near being in trouble or, "done for." Mustang sales slipped, but they are also on a platform that sold many thousands for 4-5 years before the Camaro even came back. Considering the next mustang will be on a new platform, will have IRS, a different design, likely a direct injection 5.0 with other drivetrain options to compete with the Camaro, you can't really make any accurate assumptions about what the car will do performance wise or how it will appeal to the market. If there is one thing Ford knows how to do well, it's sell mustang. A few years of less than stellar sales aren't going to make Ford pull the plug on a car they are probably still profiting heartily on. The Mustang has been sold non-stop for nearly 50 years with many years of worse sales than they're seeing now. . . Ford is not even close to dropping the Mustang.
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