(Photo: Ford Motor Company) After fifty years of being a mostly American-only piece of forbidden fruit for the rest of the world…gray market exports and the Ford T-5 nonwithstanding…in 2014 Ford made the call to make the Mustang a globally-accessible vehicle. Three years later, almost 400,000 vehicles later, and 98,000 Mustangs shipped off to the corners of the Earth, and the world has spoken: the Mustang has ranked as the best-selling sports car in the world, according to IHS Markit new vehicle registration data. Where did the Mustang do well? China and Germany ate them up, Australia has been getting their fair share, and places like Gibraltar, New Caledonia and Bonaire have seen the iconic coupe appear.
Ford isn’t done yet, either. For 2018, Brazil, the Paulu Islands and Côte d’Ivoire, along with three other as-yet-unannounced markets, will see two angry headlights pulling off of a shipping vessel, with either an angry, hissing four-banger or a thumper of a V8 announcing it’s presence. The world wanted Mustang…and we gave it to them.
They have to sell a lot just to replace all the crashed ones at the coffee and curbs events!
Finally something knocks the F150 off its perch. (Many years as best-selling vehicle, not most people’s idea of a sports car but a record breaker anyhow)
Anybody know how many countries it was sold in before they made the RHD versions?