C&D dreams up future Mustangs they haven't made yet
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We hear it from the peanut gallery every time we post about another new Mustang variation. It doesn't matter if the car comes from a small niche manufacturer, SALEEN, ROUSH or even Ford itself – people have gotten sick of Mustang mania. CARandDRIVER.com decided that beyond the Bullit, Warriors in Pink, Black Jack, Parnelli Jones and Dan Gurney Special Editions, as well as various examples from Hertz, there are a few more Mustang models that have yet to be explored. According to C&D, the market's ripe for a return of the four-cylinder Mustang, and there are plenty of other worthy causes around which you could market a Mustang besides breast cancer. Plus, if KITT could go from being a Trans Am to a Mustang, why can't Smokey's famous winged muscle car do the same? If you couldn't tell by now, the C&D folk are just exercising their funny bone here. There's a couple more we haven't mentioned, so check 'em out in the gallery below and click the source link to read their funny background stories.
Gallery: Five Future Ford Mustangs
[Source: CARandDRIVER.com]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Aetius 8:05PM (8/19/2008)
Shhhhh. No one give Ford any ideas. They need little excuse to come up with another variant.
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Randy 12:35PM (8/20/2008)
No kidding... I'm a Mustang guy at heart and even I think this is a riot! :)
Christian 12:37PM (8/20/2008)
Uh Ford sells a V6, a GT, GT/CS, Bullitt, GT500, GT500KR. 6 models only, all for different target demos, and they had only two models for the first two MYs.
Good try though...
How many models of the 911 are there? 8 or 9, not including convertibles? What's their target demo? Rich guys only.
Alexander 8:06PM (8/19/2008)
wtf? c&d ran out of cars to test so they are wasting their time on this nonsense?
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SPG 8:28PM (8/19/2008)
Gee I kinda thought it was fun.
Perhaps you'd be happier in a book store that only sells shop manuals.
There's lots of fun, I mean nonsense on the internet.
Benfolio 8:17PM (8/19/2008)
Malaria Edition FTW!
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paul34 8:20PM (8/19/2008)
I found the Mustang Mustang edition slightly lol-worthy.
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Torrent 8:27PM (8/19/2008)
ROFL@ Mustang II II
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geo.stewart 9:04PM (8/19/2008)
the only one I thought worthy.
the others were junk
SPG 8:28PM (8/19/2008)
The Mustang Foal edition was kinda cool.
It's like the emerging markets edition.
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The Talking Hamburger 9:44PM (8/19/2008)
For you younger whippersnappers, the "Mustang Foal" is a send up referencing the old Ford Escort "Pony" stripper model.
At the risk of ponycar blasphemy, the idea of a V6 (or perhaps a four cylinder) stripper Mustang isn't that horrible an idea if it gets younger folks into buying them and customizing them.
catgirlshyla 9:59PM (8/19/2008)
Wouldn't the Euro Ford Focus ST be the "gateway" car for that purpose?
Jason 8:38PM (8/19/2008)
The Mustang Mustang edition would've been funnier if they had, in fact, used mustangs, not clydesdales.
Maybe that could be the Mustang Budweiser edition? Appearing at a NASCAR race near you soon!
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paul34 9:28PM (8/19/2008)
Would it make to the race, though? Looks like it only has 4 horsepower.
*rimshot*
*gets boo'd off stage*
Go5Go 1:46PM (8/20/2008)
Maybe a Nascar Race, but the Clydesdales would need to be wearing clogs.
Biomech 8:47PM (8/19/2008)
These are some of the worse Photoshop jobs I've ever seen...
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Reader 1:57AM (8/20/2008)
You haven't seen many photoshop jobs then...
And anyway, it's humor, not conceptual car design.
Jared 8:56PM (8/19/2008)
this is soo damn old.
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AMcA 9:28PM (8/19/2008)
I would SO be into a 4 cylinder Mustang if it weighed, maybe 3200 lbs, and was the size of the original Mustang.
What would be wrong with scaling it down to its original size? I mean, one of the things that did in the Mustang was that it got too big.
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catgirlshyla 9:41PM (8/19/2008)
LAWSUITS, LAWSUITS, LOL!!