Posted on 11/29/2006 10:12:26 AM PST by taildragger
And the ad copy will read (as it always should) "Mustang -- America's favorite make-believe sports car!"
Looks like a loser to me too. Why would anybody want one, especially that color?
Original Paint Too!
Not to mention:
Or my Favorite of all Mustangs:
1969 GT500 Convertible: This car originally came form down here in NC!! Only 335 of these ever built! That's right 428 CuI automatic 4 brll.
I heard it is GLT friendly and comes with two stick shifts...
Don't like the tailights but everything else is a go.
Great looking Mustang. I thik the "chop" is a little too radical and the doors are too futuristic for the general public. With some slight modification, they've got a real winner.
I'm a long time Mustang fan. My first new car was a 1966 Mustang. Just sold my last one - a 1964 1/2. Now in the market for another one. A new one this time.
The new retro Mustangs have been one of the few things FMC is doing right.
"Holy cr*p, the entire top is one piece of glass!
I'm sure that item would never make it to production, but the lines are clean and sexy, definately sweet."
2007 Ford Edge has a glass top.
Or as Chevy calls it "sunset metallic."
Not a one piece seamless looking thing from windshield all the way back. Actually, that may not be one piece, sure looks that way though.
My word, that car was a ground-pounding, torque monster! I wonder what the real HP was on that motor?
It was never billed as a 'sports car' anyway. In fact, it was originally meant to be an economical, fun car.
It was a new class of car that came to be known as the 'ponycar' which gave birth to copycats like the camaro/firebird 2.5 years later.
Sports cars have seating for 2, like your namesake, the corvette.
Of course if you wanted some REAL horsepower in 1965, in a sports car platform, you would've needed to buy a Cobra.
Looks pretty much all glass to me.
http://media.freep.com/autoshow/2006/07ford_edge/0107ford_edge.jpg
Saflex(R) Interlayer Provides Heat Reduction And SPF 50 Benefits
LOS ANGELES, and ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The
Giugiaro Mustang, a concept created by Fabrizio Giugiaro, Italdesign
Giugiaro Styling Area Director, debuted at the Los Angeles Auto Show today
with a spectacular and unique glass roof system that incorporates the
vehicle's front window, panoramic roof and rear window as one solid glass
unit. To achieve this dramatic look, Italdesign Giugiaro approached Saflex,
a unit of Solutia Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: SOLUQ), to develop a special
glass roof for the Mustang by Giugiaro....
If it really is one piece there would be know way to open the hatch. There's no room for a trunk lid. Appears to be just a show car mock up. Two piece glass, like the Edge, would be more likely if the car is ever actually produced.
I agree, the one piece glass would never make it into production. I was surprised when I first saw it.
OOH. Thanks for the education. (Saving all those back issues of Motor Trend sure comes in handy, huh?) However, some of your "facts" require correction.
1. "In fact" the Mustang was "meant to be" a way to get suckers to buy a piece of junk Falcon by putting a "sporty" body on top.
2. The ponycar breed didn't begin to improve until Chevy/Pontiac jumped in and forced the blue oval guys to evolve the Mustang into some semblance of a performance car.
3. Every Mustang guy I run into considers his car a sports car (hence, make-believe sports car).
4. I guess the Porsche 911 (4 seats) and McLaren F1 (3 seats) aren't sports cars. (Please, let's not get into the whole "GT Car" nonsense either.)
5. Cobras were powered by Ford, but they certainly weren't Fords. You certainly couldn't just go to your local Ford dealer and buy one off the floor. And the engine got a lot of help from Carroll and the boys before it went in.
6. If you want to talk about REAL HORSEPOWER, the street version of the Cobra's small block 289 had 271 horsepower while the big block 427 had 425. The '65 Vette had several engine options, but the big block 396 also put out 425 bhp and the top of the line small block 327 put out an amazing 360 horses.
GAME OVER
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