The F150 is largely the reason the Coyote exists at all, the Mustang is a niche product in comparison....
True but the mustang made ford and now the f150 and fleet vehicles keep them alive.
That simply put, is bullshit. How do we know? They made the GT350, the GT500, the Bullitt, the Mach1, and they keep on coming. Ford DOES care about the Mustang (the car, and the brand), or we wouldn't have even what we have now.
No, the Model T made Ford. The Model A made Ford bigger. The Mustang was just one other car that helped Ford keep the Ford nameplate.
Whilst they've not mentioned how many model year the Mach 1 will run for, with S650 coming as a '23MY, we can expect Mach 1 for both the '21 and '22MY.
If you're only looking at sales numbers, the Galaxy 500 carried Ford's water in the 60's and the Granada / Pinto / Maverick triumvirate in the 70's. Taurus and Escort in the '80s and '90s, along with the Explorer when it first appeared. And the F-150 has just always been there. Mustang has always been a low to mid-level volume "me" car in a portfolio of "we" cars that sold hundreds of thousands of copies each.
The way Owens described it, they will not be responding to customer orders, but would be filling dealer allocations. So it sounds like the same approach as Shelby models, where if you want one, you have to find a dealer with allocation. GT350 survived 5 years in that mode. GT500 will likely go through the rest of S550 in that mode, so no reason Mach I wouldn't also ride through the rest of S550.
Grrrrrrr. I have been working towards one damn goal for many many years, and every lined up, despite floods, and unexpected kids, and medical emergencies, and many many other issues that point to some piss poor luck. If I cannot get my hands on a 2021 without some stupid ADM I'll be rather pissed. In the config I want. I can't buy local because our dealers are shit, they sell GTs with ADM (mustangs, not the GT GT).
Exactly.
Never saw that reply to my post; lol. Thank you for posting it. And to avoid having to click on that, here they are:
. They'll make as many as they can sell. The only good news I see is they should avoid the Bullitt fiasco, making A LOT more than the demand. They need to make just enough to avoid ADMs, and to avoid them sitting in dealer lots. Of course COVID exacerbated the problem, but they still made more than they should IMO. The good news is I wouldn't have justified paying near sticker, so the only reason I own one was because of that, so I don't mind in my case. Ha ha.