I really don't understand why Ford named his top Mustang Cobra. Mustang is a wild horse. Cobra is a snake.

How can they be together?

Why didn't they call is something horse-related, like maybe Stallion?

 

maybe cause a cobra could kill a horse with its venomous bite? ...I really don't know, but cooooooooooobra sounds cool

 

There's been debate. I think Ford was trying to pick a car from their past, and Cobra was it. it seems like they could have picked a better name for the car. Not that Cobra is a *BAD* name, but it may not have been completely appropriate for the Mustang SVT version.

 

I don't know why they picked Cobra, but I think that the reason they wouldn't have named it "Stallion" was because the Stallion name was on some limited production custom 1967 mustang sold out of a Ford dealership in Canada. Here's a link about it http://people.freenet.de/pony/stallion.htm

 

It was also about the use of the name Cobra, because alot of the kit car companies were using that name on their kits os Ford had to sue them and claim that they had the rights to that name(that started under shelby of course!) and that it was currently being used.

 

Carroll Shelby. Need I say more?

Do your homework and you'll find out why.

 

Cobra was a name that already had credibility. It was already synonomous with speed, power, and handling. It was an obvious choice.