Sherminator98

The Explorer still sold 400K units in 2002 or so...I don't think either the Pilot or Highlander have broken 150K units sold in a year...ever...but I could be wrong.

But neither one of them have sold as well as the Explorer did in its heyday...

First off the Mustang is small enough, chopping off a couple inches isn't going to lose that much weight, take a look at the 1 Series vs the 3 Series, they didn't save that much in weight by making the 1 series smaller. The other thing is that 2014 standards are fleet standards, and not that much higher then they are now, the standards are still figured by the old MPG standards, not to mention only about 20-25% of Mustang sales these days are V8 models and the new V6 gets nearly 4 MPG better highway then the current 4L V6 in it (which gets the same MPG as the 2010 GT)

hey it didn't work for Caddy! LOL I don't think Lincoln needs to be chasing down BMW either, but a nice Performance Sedan that appeals to American consumers would be really nice.

I don't think that a "cheap" Mustang is going to do anything to improve the sales of the Mustang....keeping in mind that the cost of a new car is already around 26K..why should Ford be chasing "low-rent" customers with a cheap Mustang? I don't think pushing the car downmarket is going to fix its sales issues it may or may not have.

Think Focus ST/RS/SVT Then finally I can hear the Focus guys quit complaining that Ford is afraid of losing sales of the Mustang to a performance Focus, even though when a "performance" Focus was sold, it sold at 1/10th of what total Mustang sales for the year.

Wow, the 66 GT350 is my fav Mustang of all time, but this one just leaves me Meh....

Whats the issue, thats just like saying that the Taurus will be a lesser car because it shares its platform with the Fusion. The Platform will be different, at least in size

The thing is that the 2010+ Mustang has EVERYTHING that a fully loaded 2006 Mustang GT had in as an option. Most of the price increases are from options that weren't even avaible when my car was built. IMO that isn't a bad thing, but a 30K Mustang GT with 412 HP is Hellava car for the price and a 22K V6 Mustang with 305 HP is the same..if anything the Mustang performance got Cheaper with the new V6. And a loaded GT convertible with a couple appearance packages and a Auto goes for $46K!!!! But you can get a more basic car much cheaper...so why really complain...I like the idea of having the option of adding options, esp if they aren't really needed, but a base Mustang is very well equiped pre-2010 models

Say what? Do you know how a Turboed engine works? The Intercooler cools off the air coming from the Turbo charger..just adding cooling fins and making out of aluminium isn't going to cut it.

Just like the Flex looks like two Blocks put together The MKT just went on sale this past summer....lets see how it does after being on the market a few years....and I know Ford doesn't have huge expectations for it either.

I think the Looks are fine on it, it works far better in 3D then it does in a 2D picture..I was pleasantly surprised

I don't see a sedan slotting in above Taurus...whats the point? But how about a 4 seat Thunderbird convertible? I can see a good business case for 10-20K of them at 40k+

The current Mustang was done on the cheap, and it doesn't lend itself to really anything else..which is the problem Though I wonder about the 80's Mustang and the Lincoln MK.7, was there really that big of a difference, or where peoples expectations just lower?

Go Figure...wonder if it was because it was launched in Detroit and not Europe and thus viewed as an American car then a world car. Polar opposite of what happened here...

Too bad the vast majority of Korean women have no shape to them what so ever

The other rumor is that they are running the mules at night so its next to impossible to tell if they are mules and or get good shots of them

http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/12/ec...t-20091220.html I meant the current Duratec 3.0L, the Vulcan isn't even around any more AFAIK

I saw something over on Autoweeks twitter feed that some GM exec was scared of the new Sonata too

And this can meet EPA regs for emissions and be massed produced? I don't think so

So this begs the question, is the current S197 going to be the platform that is used to underpin the next gen Falcon and Mustang? It can handle IRS, but can it be stretched out into a Sedan and have the NHV for a Lincoln product? You'd have to figure that Ford would have 80% of the engineering work for the next gen Mustang taken care of doing this and just spend the money on making it into a Sedan.

Um why not? Keep in mind that it seems like whatever the Mustang gets, the F-150 will get also..and I think the opportunity for an Ecoboost application in either one of them is too great. The only reason I can't see it being used is if for some reason the EB 3.5L doesn't get the same MPG numbers...the 3.7L is for fleet work, the 3.5L EB would be more of a consumer option for people who want good power and MPG's though the business case, outside of a limited production (less then 10K units a year) Mustang, a 3.5L EB doesn't make much sense with the new 5.0L...though it would be neat for say a GT350 or the like....

It was SUV's but part of the reason why Ford's MPG avg increased is that they are selling more cars then Trucks now.

http://www.autoblog.com/2010/01/12/report-...nto-2011-f-150/

Not bad at all, but what is this ATS they are talking about? Is it supposed to be RWD or is gonna be a Cruze based car? :P