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Mustang Roars to Another Year of Global and U.S. Sales Dominance

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On April 17, 1964, Ford introduced the Mustang® and established a legacy that has endured for decades. As it begins its 61st year, the Mustang continues to excel on the track. In 2025, it captured a win at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and multiple NASCAR and Australian Supercar victories. It is winning on the sales chart, too.

Mustang once again tops the global sports car sales charts1 and continues its reign as America’s best-selling sports car2, according to S&P Global Mobility.

Ford has sold nearly 1 million Mustangs globally over the past decade. The sports car is available to customers in 85 markets. In the U.S., as America’s best-selling sports car, Mustang now represents nearly half the non-luxury sports car segment.

The latest Mustang, the seventh generation, is expanding its reach on both the road and the track. There is a Mustang for every fan, from the economical Mustang EcoBoost® to the Mustang GT and Dark Horse™ and the 815-horsepower Mustang GTD supercar.

Mustang’s success on the road is mirrored on the track. Beyond IMSA endurance racing, NASCAR and Australian Supercars, Ford continues to race with Mustang in series around the world, as well as the one-make Mustang Challenge series.

The spirit of competition has been part of Ford culture since the beginning, and it is clear racing helps make Ford vehicles, including Mustang, better. Whether it is through technology like the Drift Brake or Mustang GTD’s active aerodynamics and carbon-fiber construction or smaller details that improve performance, efficiency or driver confidence, Mustang’s motorsports participation and racing-inspired engineering has been part of its character for 61 years.

Brandon Turkus is a member of the Ford Communications team.

1 S&P Global Mobility global vehicle registrations are compiled from government and other sources and capture 95 per cent of global new vehicle volumes in more than 80 countries as reported in March 2025. Sports car as defined by S&P Global Mobility, includes two-door coupe and convertible models.

2 Based on S&P Global Mobility total U.S. new vehicle registrations across all sports car segments CYE 2024.

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Happy National Mustang Day!

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Happy Birthday Mustang! I was 9 years old when my Grandpa bought his blue 65 Mustang. I thought it was the coolest car I'd ever seen.
 

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Happy birthday!
Cheers to something a little more exciting to drive than a boring family SUV.


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Yep! My user name Lucky13Cat is because I still feel lucky to have and drive a mustang! Always wanted one since high school in the 80’s. No more accords for me!🤘🏻
 

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Damn I forgot about its birthday but sure I partied with my mustang because I could finally drive again the 17th, after my fractured foot finally healed!!!
Edit: I checked the window sticker and my mustang was actually build april 17th 2018!! What a coincidence!!

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Photo taken on September 1st 2024 at Bolsena Lake, centre Italy
 
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Happy Birthday Mustang. My father used to work for Bill Boyer Ford in Mpls. MN. And I was 13 in 1964 when he took me to work with him and I got to polish the new cars for the car show. I remember seeing the Mustang fastback for the first time. I thought it was the coolest car in the world. I still think so. I have owned 4 of them two 1967s one fastback and one coup and I now own a 2011 cyclone and a 2015 5.0 GT pp premium coyote. Love them both.
 

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Happy Birthday Mustang. I was 8 years old when me and my dad walked into Kelly Ford in Melbourne, FL where he bought our brand new 64 1/2 burnt orange 289 V8 mustang.

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As an Australian, I am so grateful Ford made the Mustang a global car in 2015. Apart from a few batches of right-hand-drive converted Mustang's in the 60's and early 2000's, we never had access to the Mustang. That all changed in 2015 with the S550, and continues today with the S650. In a way, it replaced "our" Falcon, both on the road and on the race track.

I've been lucky enough to drive a first gen Mustang, a left-hand-drive GT convertible in Springtime Yellow. The first Mustang I drove, and the first time driving a convertible. Actually, its the oldest car I have ever driven. Yes, the brakes were nonexistent, the steering vague and handled like a boat............................but what an experience!

The second Mustang I drove was when the S550 arrived. I had just placed an order for a GT Hardtop and was thrown the keys to their demonstrator. At the time, Mustang was in such high demand that orders were a 12+ month turn around, in particular the V8 GT's. As such, the only demo's available were EcoBoost's (we never got the V6), in this case a Guard Green Automatic. I was hooked with the LOW driving position looking down that lovely long hood.

A year later, my Race Red GT arrived! This would be third Mustang I had driven, and the first time I had driven the classic V8 + manual combination..............................I never understood why people would gush over driving a V8 with a manual transmission.....................until this car.

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I then went on to drive multiple S550's, Ford at one point had them on their service loan car program, which was a nice touch. I ended up with two Race Red's parked in my driveway on multiple occasions. The Orange Fury was the dealers demo car when the 2018+ model launched. This one was a 10-speed with Recaro's and the factory stripe pack.

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Then late last year, my two year wait for a S650 came to end. It broke my heart to say goodby to the S550, it was simply perfect.

The S550 returned to the very same showroom in which I took delivery of it all those years ago, having both side by side was so special.

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Having both side by side, its amazing how dated the S550 suddenly looked.........................................but, I still think the early S550 was the better looking design, surely a highpoint in Mustang design only bettered by the original.

So yes, Happy Birthday Mustang.
 

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If Honda headlights, a Hyundai deck lid, Camaro bumper, and Camaro doors mean the S550 looks "dated", then I will take dated all day. About the only exterior change I like on S650 is the hood...even that is Camaro-esque but it looks good. Guess most people agree with me because it is selling like crap. I won't even rehash the interior.
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