Ford's CEO Wants the Next Mustang to Be a Poster Car

[because_murica]

Some opinions are objectively wrong. Like thinking Nickelback is a good band, or that McDonald's serves food. One is a band-like substance, fronted by a singing bowl of ramen. The other is a food-like substance, that you be better off substituting with ramen. Dry.

Saying the S197 looks bad is another example.

But............what else else am I going to blast as I wait to order at the McDonald's drive-through?

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[Hi-PO Stang]

I also envision the next Mustang to be a poster car. The new Bronco is by all rights a poster off road vehicle just waiting for a poster , so why not have a poster Mustang.

 

[Hack]

My cynical side says wanting something is not the same as being committed to making it happen. However, most generations of Mustangs have had posters made of them, so I think the odds are good it will happen again.

 

[Firsttexan]

I loved my 92 LX 5.0 Hatch 5 spd. Best car for the money I ever had. $16k loaded

I really liked my 98 GT 4.6 5 Speed. The dash was the coolest since the C2 Corvettes. Was tighter than the Fox body.

But.......

The 4.6 was such a disappointment I sold it after a year and bought a truck.

The 2013 GT500 was my last. My current is great car in almost every way. Very happy with. I would love to see it get lighter. Not going to happen.

Maybe better panel fit and all wheel drive.

 

[Mazman]

In this day and age the next poster car could be an EV

 

[Johnnybee]

I don't think the S197 Mustang was any more plasticky or cheap looking than the Camaro of that time...oh wait, Chevy didn't make Camaros for most of that run. That aside, I'm sure that girl is way too young to remember when cars still had steel panels showing in the dash.

 

[Hack]

I don't think the S197 Mustang was any more plasticky or cheap looking than the Camaro of that time...oh wait, Chevy didn't make Camaros for most of that run. That aside, I'm sure that girl is way too young to remember when cars still had steel panels showing in the dash.

I really liked the exterior styling of the 2011 S197. Yes the interior isn't wonderful, but IMO especially the front end was very beautiful. At the time I also thought the SRA was fine and I didn't want to pay more for an IRS car. Since then Ford educated me on how wrong I was about the stick axle. I absolutely love the IRS by comparison. Body control is much improved - even with a relatively soft suspension that has greater compliance.

 

[Bikeman315]

A car worthy of being on a poster in a kid's bedroom. I'll admit, in the 80's, the posters in my bedroom were of the Lamborghini Countach, the Ferrari 308 GTS and the Ferrari 288 GTO

Here was mine.

 

[Johnnybee]

I really liked the exterior styling of the 2011 S197. Yes the interior isn't wonderful, but IMO especially the front end was very beautiful. At the time I also thought the SRA was fine and I didn't want to pay more for an IRS car. Since then Ford educated me on how wrong I was about the stick axle. I absolutely love the IRS by comparison. Body control is much improved - even with a relatively soft suspension that has greater compliance.

Wholeheartedly agree! I was not particularly a fan of the SN95 but thought the S197 was as good a "retro" styled car as any of the ones that came out in that era. True the interior wasn't great but there were a lot that weren't. It also didn't age well, looking very tired by 2014 and the S550 really made it look even worse. My last stick axle was a '91 Caprice Classic. One of my favourite cars I ever owned over some 40+ years of driving, as good at being a luxo barge as my Mustang is a cruising sports car.

 

[Hack]

Wholeheartedly agree! I was not particularly a fan of the SN95 but thought the S197 was as good a "retro" styled car as any of the ones that came out in that era. True the interior wasn't great but there were a lot that weren't. It also didn't age well, looking very tired by 2014 and the S550 really made it look even worse. My last stick axle was a '91 Caprice Classic. One of my favourite cars I ever owned over some 40+ years of driving, as good at being a luxo barge as my Mustang is a cruising sports car.

I think they still look good.

 

[MountainStang]

I think the 11-14 s197’s are very attractive. Ecspecially the 13-14 gt500’s which some still prefer the style of over s550. I think both are great designs

 

[GT Premi]

I don't think that writer is even in the Mustang demographic. So, her opinion of the matter is worthless.

 

[Johnnybee]

I’d like to clarify that my comment about not aging well was in reference to the interior (and mostly the dash and centre stack), and not the exterior.

 

[LSchicago]

She could've been sitting on a crushed car at a junkyard, and it wouldn't have mattered.

 

[because_murica]

She could've been sitting on a crushed car at a junkyard, and it wouldn't have mattered.

Funny you should say that, since that should have been the fate of every Mustang II ever built.

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