JBstang
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SWEET!!
Those of you waiting for a 2015 Ford Mustang are one step closer today as production begins at the Flat Rock, Mich., assembly plant. The new ponycar goes on sale this fall.
For the first time, the Mustang will be exported globally to more than 120 countries. A right-hand drive version will be sold in the U.K., Australia and South Africa. Ford has sold 9.2 million Mustangs in the model’s 50-year history.
The Flat Rock Plant underwent a $555-million investment in the last year, part of which went toward tooling up for the new car. It added a flexible body shop that allows multiple models to be produced on the same line, as well as new paint, dirt detection and laser brazing technologies.
The new Mustang will get independent rear suspension, and an optional turbocharged 2.3-liter, four-cylinder engine making 310 hp and 320 lb-ft of torque. That motor will join the returning 435-hp, 5.0-liter V8 and the 300-hp 3.7-liter V6. The Mustang also gets a new perimeter subframe to stiffen the structure while also reducing mass.
“Mustang is and will continue to be an automotive icon,” said Joe Hinrichs, Ford president of The Americas. “Expanding its availability globally affords our customers around the world the opportunity to have a true firsthand Mustang experience -- one unlike any other.”
-- Jake Lingeman
JBStang
Those of you waiting for a 2015 Ford Mustang are one step closer today as production begins at the Flat Rock, Mich., assembly plant. The new ponycar goes on sale this fall.
For the first time, the Mustang will be exported globally to more than 120 countries. A right-hand drive version will be sold in the U.K., Australia and South Africa. Ford has sold 9.2 million Mustangs in the model’s 50-year history.
The Flat Rock Plant underwent a $555-million investment in the last year, part of which went toward tooling up for the new car. It added a flexible body shop that allows multiple models to be produced on the same line, as well as new paint, dirt detection and laser brazing technologies.
The new Mustang will get independent rear suspension, and an optional turbocharged 2.3-liter, four-cylinder engine making 310 hp and 320 lb-ft of torque. That motor will join the returning 435-hp, 5.0-liter V8 and the 300-hp 3.7-liter V6. The Mustang also gets a new perimeter subframe to stiffen the structure while also reducing mass.
“Mustang is and will continue to be an automotive icon,” said Joe Hinrichs, Ford president of The Americas. “Expanding its availability globally affords our customers around the world the opportunity to have a true firsthand Mustang experience -- one unlike any other.”
-- Jake Lingeman
JBStang
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