The color of passion
Palette of the Ford Mustang has always been very diverse.
One of the colors, however, attracts more than others and it’s red.
In the same painted cars Ford, making a furor on the race track.
Not surprisingly, more than 20% of cars sold in the history of the model are exactly red.
Name
It got its name even before he was born. Lee Lacocca says that one of the hardest things in the design of the car is to come up with his name.
Case of the Mustang is even more dramatic, as in the choice of name also involved himself Henry Ford III.
One option is the car to say Torino, but just before it exits the grandson of the company founder married a beautiful Italian woman later dump him. So any Italian associations are prohibited.
Ultimately, Ford sent one of its employees in the Public Library of Detroit, where he has to dig up the names of all known animals in different languages. Proposed thousands of options such as Iacocca stops at five of them – Bronco, Puma, Cheetah, and finally …. Stallion Mustang.
The pilot unit
As a rule, the first production cars of each model do not go to the store and a garage, museum or corporate park the manufacturer.
In this case, however, is a mistake and the first Ford Mustang was owned pilot Stanley Tucker.
So the machine twice a ‘pilot’. When you learn about the mistake in Ford insist Tucker to return the car, but he flatly refused.
Only two years later, the pilot agrees, swapped first produced for Mustang million milestone, descended from the conveyor.
The sixth is the price of the fifth
The new-generation Mustang is quite changed, mainly to meet the requirements of European consumers.
The machine has got aggressive styling of the concept Evos, independent rear suspension and a new four-cylinder EcoBoost.
It is lighter, faster and more economical than its predecessor, but will be sold at the price.
In Europe, things are different, because the Mustang builds for the first time in this market.
Depending on the equipment, which includes SYNC multimedia system with 8-inch display and a number of different systems for monitoring the behavior of the road price of the model will start at € 36,000.