Next Gen Mustang Mega Thread

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Originally Posted by DaBears

Are you blind? Are you aware that the basic design of Mustang on average only changes every 10 years. Look at a 2005 Mustang and look at a brand new one, its all the same platform and basic design.

Other cars like the Fusion stay the same for on average 5 years, then change.

This is basically how its done for all car companies.

bingo, isn't that actually just the Evos concept car that previewed the Fusion?

[nUcLeArEnVoY]

Originally Posted by Rock36

I personally don't mind cars that look similar from one generation to the next i.e. Porsche 911, Corvettes. The retro look is part of what drew me to buy a Mustang GT back in 2005 (that and no new T/A WS6s).

I suppose I will wait until the actual car comes out. If it brought back some of the cues of the SN95 new edges, then I probably would like it... but that would probably be considered retro too

Anyway I don't know ha ha, maybe it is because depending on which "expert" is talking I'm either Gen X or Gen Y... I guess I'm trans-gendered... err I mean trans-generational.

I agree. What's wrong with evolving a car's style with each generation? Why does it constantly need to be reinvented? Corvettes and Porsche 911's have timeless styling that, despite having been similar for decades, still submit to modern styling trends and implement them seamlessly.

That Evos car doesn't look like a Mustang in any way, shape, or form. Taking styling cues from it will detract from the Mustang's heritage. Worst of all, the rest of cars in its class (including ours) will PROBABLY follow suit.

Somehow I think this has to do with the fact that the Mustang is going global and will have to appeal to a larger audience.

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Originally Posted by iHasCamaro

Fugly space ship styling. Looks like a Taurus.

Beat me to it!

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Originally Posted by nester7929

Friggin' marketers, right?

I grew up in a generation that began embracing metrosexual wussbags like the Backstreet Boys and the cast of Jersey Shore. Screw that, I want my car to look like it belongs to a guy who got done with a double shift at the steel mill and is going to end the night being tossed out of a bar.

Oh god, you just brought back a horrible memory of my brother's Michael Jackson Moonwalker jacket and the white gloves. And....the Halloween he dressed up like a girl. I'll take my legit blue collar muscle please, as a previous Mustang owner keep the Mustang a muscle car. This concept looks like a Ford Probe, I hate it.

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Originally Posted by BowtieBelle

That design for a Mustang? NO! Please, Ford, don't do that to an American Icon ... you just don't DO that to a muscle car...

They can do that look to my Fiesta though.

[AZCamaroFan]

Ford, call the next mustang Mustang III, and base it on the Focus.
and bring back that Ranger 6 cyl you were using until two years ago, as the top choice.
oh yeah and call the top line model King Cobra .

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Originally Posted by AZCamaroFan

Ford, call the next mustang Mustang III, and base it on the Focus.
and bring back that Ranger 6 cyl you were using until two years ago, as the top choice.
oh yeah and call the top line model King Cobra .

At least the Mustang II looked like a Mustang.

[fielderLS3]

Originally Posted by AZCamaroFan

Ford, call the next mustang Mustang III, and base it on the Focus.
and bring back that Ranger 6 cyl you were using until two years ago, as the top choice.
oh yeah and call the top line model King Cobra .

Ranger 6-cyl > Iron Duke.

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Originally Posted by fielderLS3

Ranger 6-cyl > Iron Duke.

True, true, but don't forget you didn't have a choice of V8 with the Mustang II when it came out.

[fielderLS3]

Originally Posted by TOMS1SS

True, true, but don't forget you didn't have a choice of V8 with the Mustang II when it came out.

True. At least for that one year.

And as it turned out, the 2.8L Cologne V6 in the 1974 also could only be pushed full-throttle once....as my dad found out when he was driving my mother's 74 back in the day.

[AZCamaroFan]

ford failing, and then apparently trying to copy ....the Trans Am?!

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Originally Posted by fielderLS3

True. At least for that one year.

And as it turned out, the 2.8L Cologne V6 in the 1974 also could only be pushed full-throttle once....as my dad found out when he was driving my mother's 74 back in the day.

Blew up?

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Originally Posted by AZCamaroFan

ford failing, and then apparently trying to copy ....the Trans Am?!

For mid-70s cars I didn't think the Mustang II was that bad a looker. Almost everything was bloated beyond recognition back then.....and underpowered.

[AZCamaroFan]

well the nonhatchback, it could have been alright if they hadn't overdone the feminine details. like you said, it did basically look like a mustang. they just went overboard.

of course it's competition was the Awesome 2nd gen Camaro and Firebird's.