Here’s an actual photo of the car that was revealed by TIME Magazine today, most likely because Ford was freaked at the craptastic quality of the cell-phone shots of a copy of Autoweek that leaked out yesterday. So, seeing the actual car in the flesh may change your opinion….or not. What do you think? We dig it more, seeing the actual thing and not an image of an image. Being able to see the real wheelbase got us a little more onboard.
We’ve already gotten our hooks into the Ford people for a drive….stay tuned.
Needs to be about 1-2″ lower. Other than that, not bad. Not stunning, but at least they didn’t repeat the atrocities of 1974.
The 7.5% of Aston Martin Ford still owns must include the garbage cans from the design department containing old DB9 sketches…
There are far worse cars from which to crib (i.e. the earth-crushing bumble-bee-bunker Camaro; every Toyota ever built . . . . )
I’m not sure how I feel yet. I think I see a hint of the Dodge Charger there. I need to see more. Maybe it will grow on me once there are more pictures, different angles!! Hopefully!! I’ve always liked Mustangs! I’m sure once it has been around a lil it will grow on me. Once I see the things that Ford and the aftermarket do and can do with it!!! I’m sure it will Rock!!
Just when they got it right . They mess it up again . Remember that 70’s mustang . This looks like a new improved version . Yuck .
Looks like EuroTrash to me.
Already was in Car & Driver a month ago . . . on the cover. YAWN. Zzzzzz.
It better appeal to the EU and Aussies, though, or “Dearborn, we’ve got a problem . . . .”
It probably won’t cause any of the Camaro-philes to give up their bloated cartoon cars, but maybe, just maybe it will attract enough of the fickle, trend-following style lemmings to pump up the “business case” for future RWD V8s.
If not, the future is going to stink even more than I already expect.
As for the hard-core stang bangers . . . I’m not seeing anything yet that makes ’em want to immediately rush out and trade . . . no breakthroughs (and certainly nothing worth losing the drag-friendly beam axle and the smashmouth 662-h.p. GT500 for) . . . Problem?
Meh, I’ll keep my 2008.
“I have an idea! Let’s take the roofline of a Nissan, the grille of a Fusion, and the headlights off a Focus and stuff them on the same old lower body we’ve been making. The rear? Oh, we’ll just tilt it a little. It will look brand new!”
Larry Shinoda just rolled over and kicked Henry Ford II in the grave.
amen!
Shinoda and the Deuce are buried in a common grave? That’s a scoop.
Who knew times were that hard in the Motor City.
Seriously, is trying to integrate a common design “language” across products really that horrible?. At least it’s not a leaden origami prop lifted from “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” as is Mustang’s main nemesis — the ridiculous “bumble[d]bee” from Down Under (courtesy of “Government Motors”).
And besides as long as it’s got a modern (not a wheezing Kettering 2-valve OHV) 420+ horsepower V8 and RIGHT WHEEL DRIVE, are looks really all that important? Really?
So are we to assume that you don’t entirely love the Camaro?
Quote ” Seriously, is trying to integrate a common design “language” across products really that horrible?.” Quote.
YES! It is. Building car that all look alike and have the same shape and the same grille, just in different scales is BORING!! . Not to mention it deludes the model into the rest of the brand. But, now that is the business mantra. Build the brand, at the expense of individualism. Following after BMW’s uni-styling brand. They can keep it.
Seriously, Scott, you’re a vintage GM guy . . . you were never going for it anyway, however they styled it.
My point is that if you want to build an entirely new Mustang, make it look like a new Mustang. This is just adding Fusion and Focus styling cues to the existing car. It may be the best thing since sliced bread, but the hype they’ve been pushing leads one to believe that a new direction in styling was coming. This isn’t a new direction but an update on the existing style. Not like the jump from the first body style to the 71 body style, or to the Mustang II, or to the Fox, or to the late 90’s style, or to the current body.
Actually the basic platform of the current car is very GOOD. And other than the sad Mustang II debacle, the way Mustang has been kept affordable is by recycling the “under the skin” bits for long periods of time.
Falcon architecture: 1964-1973
Fox architecture: 1979-1993
Fox-4 architecture: 1994-2004
And Mustang’s competitors are re-bodied oldies as well (Challenger — old Mercedes E-class . . . Chevy’s chubby folded-metal bunker-mobile — Old Holden Commode . . . .)
The new ‘Stang shaves pounds and inches for forced CAFE compliance, so while familiar, there will be more new bits than may meet the eye.
I might be tempted when they have an EcoBoost Coyote V8 . . . .
The Mustang has always been a sporty conglomeration of whatever was in Ford’s stable at the time:
Gen 1: Falcon with cues from Torino later on
Gen 2: Pinto
Gen 3: Fairmont, LTD, and a ton of concepts
Gen 4: Taurus and Contour
Gen 5: See Gen 4, but set a clay model next to someone with a knife and a history of seizures for “re-imagining”.
Gen 6: Gen 1 made politically correct.
This front end is on a lot of makes and models this year but the grill is still basic 2010 mustang just not pushed in. I am a mustang owner as well as a 2013 Fusion owner. Looks like a rear wheel drive 2 door Fusion. But the More I look at the side and front view of This car I kind of like it have to wait to see one to say for sure
Need some tech data on the rear end. Is it an 8.8 and will it take a beating?
still looks better than that camaro thing
Y u ck I m joing the fry man and scrawling my name into to sides of gt 500. I’d rather drive an out datef slant six fith ave station wagon. Yea sure put hp in bla bla bla custum grill and expesailly ne headlamps bla bla bla. I’d rather drive front a wheel drive.
Cool, first Jeep/Fiat brings back the Eagle and calls it a Cherokee and Ford brings back the Probe and calls it the Mustang. At least it looks better than a Fox Body
A cat fish!!!!!, another Hyundai!!
A redesigned Mustang II maybe? The had it right why did they screw with it?
It’s a nice progression from the retro body. And yes, it definitely helps seeing it as one whole car, not a magazine shot.
As far as those who are lamenting the design, two things to remember:
1) No matter how much you hate the Mustang II, if it didn’t exist, neither would pretty much any Mustang since. That generation’s sales pushed it through the ’70s very well.
2) Mustang had to evolve. The retro body, while a looker, had to go before it got stale, everyone knew that. The big question was how. This is doing a pretty decent job. I’m still not loving the roofline, but overall is a nice progression that blends some elements of Evos, Mach III, and the current gen car.
As for those who are hell-bent against the car entirely and are bitching about progress, my suggestion:
http://www.dynacornclassicbodies.com/images/68FB_collage.jpg
Spend the money and do it yourself if you can’t stomach new cars.
I’d say they are going with how Porsche redesigns their 911 . Just a little at a time . If it isn’t broke don’t fix it. Just improve the mechanicals
I’m not buying the ‘leaked photo’ hype — if Ford wants to keep a secret they have the means to do so. Pics of this thing have been out for a month.
More likely a strategy to to convince potential Mustang buyers who are anxious about the new design to jump on a current model ASAP. And let the always faithful know that the new model is not such a radical departure that they need to switch to one of those other two super-sized pony cars.
The “retro” look is gone? Bulls**t, even without badges, I would recognize it as a Stang.
Some would say that’s a measure of success. It looks different without losing its basic “design D.N.A.”
I like the current generation of Mustangs, not this one.
too beaky
Looks like Ford bolted a focus front on it
With 50+ m.p.g. CAFE standards looming, just be glad it’s not a Ford Focus platform with a “Mustang” body welded to it (which that cost-cutting ex-Boeing doofus Mulally and the clueless Billy Ford might have been dumb enough to sign off on . . . ProbeStang II . .. YIKES!)
RWD V8 fans dodged a major bullet with this one.
I like it. I was hoping for a more radical changes but I like what they did. That said it doesn’t really matter what I think as I won’t be one of the ones that can afford to buy one.
Leave it to Ford to fuck up a good design, Again.
Am I the only one that looks at that nose and is reminded of the stereotypical picture of a gypsie fortune teller? The shnawzz on that thing is less than flattering, some emergency rhinoplasty please…
I really liked the design changes for 1974 and for 2005. This one? Not so much.
Chicks (and Nancy boys) are going to dig it.
Just like skanky meth chicks, hosers who live in mommy’s basements, and blind-eyed GM fanboys LUV the thunder-thigh Camaro . . . .
still looks like a tuner to me.
Maybe that’s what Ford wants. The Camaro guys will think it’s a shitbox tuner (about the only things they can beat) and get their asses handed to them.
I think it looks ok.
Why are people always so freaked out whenever something new comes out? ‘Fraid of change?
I like it..I,m a Ford guy and think the progression was done well as it still looks like a Mustang. Hopefully the color selection will be enlarged and wheel choices improved.
grille looks better than the ’13 I think. I likey.
Were there any survivors in that wreck ? That thing stinks like the shit house on a Tuna Boat.
Remember,it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak and remove all doubt……………………………
Anywho, I dig it too. Can’t wait to see it down over a couple
of 14 x 32’s cranking out some mid 8’s. Flash out
LOOKS great ,and it took no government bail out
I’m not doubting that it will be a good car. I just don’t think it is the radical redesign that is long overdue.
I just cant get past the Catfish Mouth Front.
And despite all the hate this car is already bringing it will sell faster than Budweiser at a sweaty summer Nascar event! I’m not crazy about it, but I don’t hate it. I’ll just keep driving my ’68!
ugly ass piece of shit!
Much better pics: http://www.speedhunters.com/2013/12/sixth-appeal-2015-mustang-revealed/
I know its a crash regulation requirerment,but it needs to loose about 3-4″ in “thickness” below the “green house” just remove the space between the top of the fender lip and line that is the top of the fender. But dont raise the fenders then require 24’s to save the look.
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The Camaro has the same problem.
I know as we get older we get thicker in the middle but I dont want my cars to do that too.
I like it.
Yawn……
“Brian Cooper
“I have an idea! Let’s take the roofline of a Nissan, the grille of a Fusion, and the headlights off a Focus and stuff them on the same old lower body we’ve been making. The rear? Oh, we’ll just tilt it a little. It will look brand new!” ”
Nailed it.
” HO – HUM “
Booorrringggggg……
Being someone who liked the 64 Falcon Sprint better than the original Mustang,I think it’s a georgous car,it does look like a fish in the front,but I like it.Can’t wait to see the Cobra Jet
Been a chevy guy my whole life, and have definitely never liked mustangs until the last rendition. But this has only pushed me back to my roots as a chevy guy. I think they really missed with this design. It just doesnt flow right. The 2013 was the best looking mustang ever made in my opinion.