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The Ford Mustang is an automobile produced by the Ford Motor Company, originally based on the Ford Falcon compact.

The first production Ford Mustang rolled off the assembly line in Dearborn, Michigan on 9 March 1964, and was introduced to the public at the New York World's Fair on 17 April 1964, and via all three American television networks on 19 April.


At the 2004 North American International Auto Show, Ford introduced a completely redesigned Mustang, codenamed "S-197," that was based on an all-new D2C platform for the 2005 model year. Developed under the direction of Chief Engineer Hau Thai-Tang and exterior styling designer Sid Ramnarace, the fifth-generation Mustang's styling echoes the fastback Mustangs of the late 1960s. Ford's senior vice president of design, J Mays, called it "retro-futurism."

The fifth-generation Mustang is manufactured at the AutoAlliance International plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. The base model is powered by a 210 hp (157 kW) cast-iron block 4.0 L SOHC V6, which replaces the 3.8 L pushrod V6 used previously. The Mustang GT features an aluminum block 4.6 L SOHC 3-valve Modular V8 with variable camshaft timing (VCT) that produces 300 hp (224 kW). The 2005 Mustang GT has an approximate weight to power ratio of 11.5 lb/bhp. The base Mustang comes with a standard Tremec T-5 5-speed manual transmission while Ford's own 5R55S 5-speed automatic, a Mustang first, is optional. Though the Mustang GT features the same automatic transmission as the V6 model, the Tremec T-5 manual is substituted with the heavier duty Tremec TR-3650 5-speed manual transmission to better handle the GT's extra power.

The revised 2010 model year Mustang, launching in April 2009, was unveiled on the internet ahead of the 2008 Los Angeles International Auto Show.

The new Mustang's more "muscular" look, comprising mostly new exterior sheetmetal (except for the roof),[29] is designed to look smaller than its predecessor even though the actual dimensions are essentially unchanged, according to Ford's North American design director Peter Horbury.

he 2007 edition of Ford's pony car still offers a variety of trim levels, from mild (the 210-horsepower base car) to wild (the fire-breathing Shelby GT500 with a 500-horsepower V8). FORD FUEL ECONOMY

Ford will also reveal the next-generation Mustang Bullitt GT with design cues that hold true to form with the Mustang late actor Steve McQueen drove in the 1968 movie "Bullitt."

The 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 is equipped with the durable Tremec TR-6060 transmission.

A 2007 GT will perform a quarter-mile test in 13.9 seconds at 103 mph with a 0-60 mph acceleration test in 5.3 seconds. This is more than likely due to the slightly increased weight of the 2007 model. The front suspension had been revised to improve steering response while the rear suspension added a three-linked system to control the vertical and lateral movements of the axle. Unlike the GT, the V6 version lacks a rear sway bar that caused severe oversteer on hard cornering.

Driving a car with a legitimate 1,000 hp on the street is nearly impossible without killing yourself and every innocent bystander around, but oh boy is it a lot of fun. Fifteen years ago, making that kind of power meant a 2,000-rpm idle, horrible street manners, and 4-mpg fuel economy. Thanks to the wonders of turbochargers and EFI technology, it's now fairly easy to make four-digit power

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Ford Improves In J.D. Power and Associates Study

In today's auto market, customers are getting more and more focused on getting a reliable vehicle. It would seem that the days of getting a new car every three to five years are gone (at least for the majority of the population), so quality studies and surveys about different vehicles are proving to be crucial in buyers' decisions. And that's good news for Ford because a recent study by J.D. Power and Associates marks the current lineup of Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury vehicles as one of the best ever.
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Publ.Date : Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:08:48 -0500

2010 Roush Mustang Made In America

In celebration of the Fourth of July, Roush Performance released some figures about just where the parts for their 2010 Roush Mustang come from. The Mustang isn't entirely American made, but it does clock in at 86%, which, if you consider the growing trend towards globalization in the past few decades, is an incredibly high number. And, that 86% includes all of the stock Ford Mustang parts and the modifications made by Roush.
2010 Roush Mustang 427R  read more »


Publ.Date : Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:28:43 -0500

2010 Chevrolet Camaro Outsells Mustang In June

It's the first of July and that means that sales numbers are starting to be tallied for the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and 2010 Ford Mustang for the month of June, and it doesn't look good for the Blue Oval. Initial reports indicate that Chevy sold 9,320 Camaros this past month, while Ford only managed to move 7,632 Mustangs off the lot. The other big Detroit muscle car, the 2009 Dodge Challenger, finished in a distant third with only 1,369 units sold.
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Publ.Date : Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:20:08 -0500

Ford's Social Media Experiment

Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other such websites are seen as the future of online social interaction. After all, why engage in a prolonged, deep conversation when you can just hop on Twitter, type out a 140 character message. (That previous sentence was 123 characters). Okay, I'm showing my bias now, but anyway, the online social media phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by Ford, and they've launched the Fiesta Movement, a way to promote their new Fiesta model through these media. And it's working pretty well; over the course of the past three months, they've racked up 1.8 million views on YouTube, over 270,000 photo views on Flickr (one of those was me, finding the pictures below), and 1.8 million Twitter impressions.
One of the "Fiesta Movement Agents" from Seattle  read more »


Publ.Date : Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:28:50 -0500

New 2010 Unleashed Video

The Ford Motor Company has been running a promotion called '10 Unleashed over the past few months as a way to give Mustang fans a way to live out some of their muscle car dreams behind the wheel of a brand new Mustang. The first one featured a celebrity, drifter Vaughn Gittin while he was visiting Japan, but the new one which has just been released focuses on a blind man who hasn't been behind the wheel of a car in years.  read more »


Publ.Date : Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:56:16 -0500

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