Only 1/3 un-American
A quick look at all three new Mustangs reveals that ford only deleted red white and blue from one model, the rest were obviously already un-American.
Come on, really.......
Things that make the Mustang recognizable at a glance. Side "C" scoop, deck lid ornament, unique styling of front end (not matching other Ford products), roofline (the 2015+ models did a great job of resurrecting the original). Its pretty obvious that the Car & Driver cover image must be spot...
It seems to me that Ford is stripping a lot of legacy Mustang bits from this newest version, which otherwise still retains much of the retro body shape. I just hope this bland-ization of style doesn't take the Mustang back to it's "malaise" era status again.
I believe what people are perceiving as a gap, is really just a dark area in the inside curve of an outward lip at the bottom.
(Darn, I didn't see TampaBear67's post as I was trying to draw an illustration to go along with this, but he is saying exactly what I think the image shows. However...