Et tu, Ford?
Like the Tbird, going, going, gone.
This stupid article is based entirely on speculation, not facts. The Spectator can’t even get politics right. Why believe anything it says about cars?
I’m going to get one of those 600hp ones as an investment then.
miraculously, it came back to life.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan and the '80's.
Mustang III.
Coming soon to a taxpayer near you.
Ford's thinking (from the WSJ):
The Mustang, which has had a strong retro look since 2005, is losing steam, too. Last year Ford sold 70,438, down 4.4% from 2010 and less than half the 166,530 it sold in 2006.
The average Mustang buyer today is 51 years old.
The change is part of a bid to make the Mustang appeal to Generation Y, the roughly 80 million people who were born between 1980 and 1999. This demographic group is entering its peak car-buying years. Cars that their parents drive—and hark back to the days of Woodstock, 20 years before they were born—don't really interest them.
All I’ve read so far on this is that the future Mustang will take styling cues from the Evos ... it won’t be exactly like it. Yes, it will lose the real axle and go independent, and will probably have a shorter wheel base, but it will not be a re-badged Evos.
I guess only time will tell.
Back in the day when I was a yut (late 50’s early 60’s) my group of teenage friends and I prided ourselves on our ability to name the make, model and year of every car that we saw on the streets. Now they all look the same. ;-(
Ain’t gonna work. I would suggest buying a Mustang now, before they destroy it.
I am not buying it, for 2 reasons. Ford isn’t Government Motors. They will build what people will open their wallets and buy. For Mustang, that is horsepower. Who is afraid of IRS? Contrary to the article, the drag race crowd wasnt putting 1000 HP in front of a stock axle. The Ford 9 inch rear end has been the standard for drag racing for 40 years and for that reason, it is one of the cheapest to build and modify. The IRS in a factory horse car will be great. As a road racer with a solid rear axle, trust me the difference is astounding. If Ford keeps the current body, current motor and puts IRS in, I may not need to buy a Corvette (I hate GM, but that thing goes turns and stops like nothing else for the dollar)
Reason 2? Remember the Ford Probe? It was touted as the next Mustang until fans flooded Ford with mail. They will do the same thing. Drown in the adoration of thousands and release this “next Mustang” as a new model. The next Mustang will have a short deck, long hood and a V8. Anything else is economic suicide.
I want my my muscle cars.