Why Ford Mustang is a legend
Europe is looking forward to the appearance of the model
This year Ford Mustang – one of the icons of American cars, marks two very important events.
It celebrates its 50th anniversary and will be presented to the European market for the first time.
The history of the car is filled with interesting facts, we chose those Mustang became a legend.
The assembly line – the screen
Just a year after it came into production, the first Ford Mustang debuted in cinema.
The car involved in the famous “Goldfinger” from the series about the legendary spy James Bond.
It quickly became a star for 50 years and has photographed over 500 film productions.
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In the U.S., car prices have always been perfectly acceptable – in this version, they start at 24,000 dollars.
A first generation model was sold for just 2368 dollars, which quickly gives it an advantage in the market.
One of the “fathers” of the model – Lee Lacocca invented ingenious marketing ploy.
He invites potential customers to see the first prototype of the Mustang, which has not yet been shown to the press. And causes them to set their own price.
Most say the amount of $ 1,000 above that Ford are appointed, are adamant that the car is too small in size and too expensive.
When, however, understand how much they will cost, immediately change their minds, as are a variety of reasons.
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.