In 2010, Ford is giving it's 'new' Mustang a makeover. The new-new Chevy Camaro is on the way, and Ford doesn't want us to forget that it never killed our favorite pony car like Chevy did in 2002. Unless you remember when they almost did in the Mustang 1973-74 (the Pinto was going to be the next big thing). They almost did it again in 1986-87 (the Probe was the Mustang--it was front-wheel-drive and got better milage...). Anyway...
I love these spy photos. When I was in college, I would go hang out at the McStop on I-94 in St. CLoud all the time between classes. You would see the weirdest stuff there. Once I saw a fleet of Mercedes, all decked out in the same black car cover stuff held together with duct tape, with Euro lisense plates. They all pulled into the truck stop there, got diesel, wrote a few notes on their laptops, checked the fluids, and were back on the freeway. It was the middle of winter, and I guess they were doing some cold weather testing.
After that, it was one of this and two of those, three of something else. I would get to close to the car in the parking lot or at the pumps, and someone would hop in it and pull around the building while they are waiting. I never had a camera on me, but they looked a lot like what would pop up in the Motor Trend Spy photo section each and every month.
Below is an official spy pic of the '10 Stang. In the upper right of the pic, you can see a '99-'04 Mustang. They called this the New Edge body style. The '94 Mustang was the first new chassis for over ten years, and in '99 it was given new sheet metal. Underneath it was still the same, for the most part, but it ran the new modular engines exclusively. In '05, the chassis was all new again and given the name S-197. This is what is driving in the upper left. I'm not sure what it means, but it must be important.
These two pics are right from Ford, so they should be the closest as far as what it will really look like. If you ask me, the side prifile seems to have been tightened up a bit giving it a sharper, mose muscular look. I've seen the '05-'08 Steeda's and Saleen's, and they do about the same thing with their body kits. I'm liking this look.
The front end is starting to have more of a '71-'73 Mach 1 look. The honeycomb grill and the smaller running lights divided from the rest of the front with those grey vertical bars. The front also l has a little of the new GT-500 look with the clear covers over the headlings.
Here is a new GT-500 KR. Any similarities here?
Here is a 1971 Mustang Mach 1. Do you see the similarities here?
It's getting colder out there. I hope your winter projects are off to a strong start. Mine aren't, but I'm not going to make any excuses.
Not yet, anyway.
