My question is can Ford deliver on what they are promising. I remember the promises made in past that didn't pan out, how will this be different.

But for every potential buyer that wants retro styling there is at least one that wants modern.   You can’t please everyone.   Personally I love the 930 but I don’t want a modern 911 that looks like that.  I would just buy a 930.  I feel most retro Mustang fans would do the same.   The one area I agree with is making enough changes to keep repeat buyers, especially lease customers.  Bit that doesn’t mean wholesale changes.

Just wait for the additional doors to join the pack.   Also heard the “New Edge” styling of the 1999-2004 Mustang might make a subtle reappearance at some point.

Three reasons - Price, Price and a continued market shift away from coupes.  Current design is not bad enough to turn away serious buyers especially with almost no competition.  

I don’t think Ford needs to be overly concerned about specific competitors.  They need to focus on keeping costs as low as possible with appealing designs similar to what they did with Maverick and Bronco Sport.  What works for one company may not work as well for another due to differences in infrastructure costs, intellectual property, factory capacity and market appeal.   I’m ok with skunkworks taking longer IF the end result is as good as Ford has touted in cost, design and performance.  If it ends up just being average in any of those areas it will be a swing and a miss - again.

Even though it's an entirely different price point, this is a great example of what I have in mind. Having something that still looks like a 60s muscle car with a blocky shape, but more exotic proportions.    Something like this with more pronounced hips and dynamic rear end like that original pic I showed. I basically want the mustang to be the best looking front engine coupe on sale. 

Three reasons why the new Mustang is not selling. One, the front of the car is to cluttered looking. Two, the dash i pad look doesn't cut it. Three, the price is just way to much. JMHO

Thanks my friend. While my wife and I like the EV6 and Ioniq 5 a lot, as you know we ended gettin' a MME GT instead. My concerns are:  Ford's big shots ain't sufficiently concerned that Hyundai/Kia E-GMP models, already among the best in class when introduced in 2022, keep getting better. Better in many ways, not just charging speed The lack of new EV in Ford's U.S. vehicle lineup between the time I bought my F-150 Lightning in 2022 and my wife's MME GT last month More talk than tangible products or processes comin' out of Ford's skunkworks and the new low cost EV platform at this point 

Prefer cleaner lines of Top Gun: Maverick’s classic 1973 Porsche 911 S.  If Ford did a complete redesign of Mustang, my vote would be to make it simpler and aesthetically less “cluttered”.  Not sure what the right term or description is, but present Mustang looks too busy to me, in a similar manner that Porsches posted above by akirby look overdone compared to original 911 from movie.  Functionality aside, Mustang inspiration should indeed come from 60s IMO.  

You may be 100% correct, but just because two events occur sequentially doesn’t necessarily mean there is causality.  Companies spin information every which way they think will benefit them best, so it’s hard to know for sure.  Obviously Hyundai at some point in time must have thought there was demand or they wouldn’t have committed the necessary investment.  On the other hand it’s likely that shifting production to US took some time, so even if sales suddenly dropped 50% for unrelated reasons, reversing direction may have not been an option.  I hope you’re right and that sales bounce back in second half.  My concern is that general EV ownership sentiments have been shifting.