From Jalopnik:

 

heres a better pic:


I was hoping when I saw this that it wouldnt be huge but sadly it looks like it is from those pics u posted brad

 

Ford could have been a lot more creative and whipped up something more special than this. I had a 1999 Mustang and all it had was the 35th Aniversary badge as well.

 

I just noticed something...is that a glassback roof?

 

Yessir it is...

And I like the 45th badge ... its better than the 35th and 40th.
Nice horseshoe integration

 

I'm not sure about that horseshoe, it seems a bit busy to me but I do like it.

 

just an updated version of the 20th anniversary badge:

 

i think it looks decent.

 

The pony is running the wrong way in the new emblem.

 

It should be HUGE in Indy.

 

Duh! It is a RH fender emblem and ponies are supposed to run facing forward in the direction it would run counter clockwise on a race track. The only other place the pony emblem would have the head facing right is if it were ever used on the inside drivers door panel. Every other aspect or use on a Mustang, the head of the pony should always face left when viewed.

The only exception to the pony not running forward on the RH side of the Mustang is if it being used on wheel center caps.

 

As a emblem design I think it looks good ! but the fact is Mustangs are wild horses and are not shoed....

 

It's cool to study the use of the horses Ford used to use on it's family of ponies...

The Pinto had a little baby bucking pony... The Bronco was a fierce bucking pony... The Mustang II was slowed down to a trot compared to it's fast stampeding look of classic and current Mustangs.









Oh yeah didn't you used to love that woodgrain finish you could make out strange images from.

 

Who told you this? My pony headrest have them facing each other. I dare to be different.

 

ford issued a TSB on ponies that face each other

 

It's well documented in Mustang history books... You know those archaic factual books written long ago by people who were involved in development of the cars, not fanboys on the internet who post heresay on Wikipedia... Ever since the internet took over its a challenge to find anything historically accurate so you can never rely on the internet for historical facts.

However if it makes you happy for your ponies to face each othen then so be it!

Long ago during the development of the Mustang, Lee Iacocca had to set a limit on how many ponies could be put on a Mustang. What prompted that was designers getting carried away creating emblems with multiple horses and placing too many pony emblems in the cars. There was also lengthy discussion about which way ponies should run when positioned on different views of the car.

Anyway, the logic is the head of the pony should always be positioned going in the direction it would be running on a race track from a spectator's view. The head of the horse is always facing left unless you are viewing the horse from the spectator stands from the right side. If you can see the back of the car at a race track, the the horse head would be in the correct direction if it were going through the first turn on the track which is the only time you can see the back of the car, that is the first 1/4 of the track.

 

What about all the ponies on the GT cloth seats all sniffing each other's butts?

 

Someone's really over analyzing this.
The REAL story is when the pony emblem was first designed they didn't notice it was running to the left. Eventually they figured out it was the opposite direction a race horse runs on the track. Whether it was too late to change it or they decided to leave it that way since the Mustang is a wild horse, who knows.

Either way, it always runs to the left unless that direction would have it running to the rear of the car... such as the passenger side fender.

Oh, and that 45th emblem is WAY too big.

 

When are the 2009s supposed to come out...I always hate this part of buying a car, when it comes to the next year model and it has stuff I want like that glassback roof...

 

I lost count of all the running horses on my cloth seats...