I believe I found the missing link as to why the 2010 Mustangs Rear End looks the way it does, among other things. I believe it is the Introduction of Fords Kinetic Design Language, incorporated with Traditional Mustang Design. I stumbled across these Design Sketches for the Ford Iosis Concept that were done back in 2004, about the time that the 2010 Mustang was being designed. What Do You Think?









I also noticed a few Designer Genes carried over from the Very Successful Ford Interceptor Concept. Which was Designed On a Mustang Chassis.

The Power Dome Hood



Beveled Rear Corners and Tail Lights



As Well As The Taughtly Stretched Wheel Arches



All Design Elements Incorporated Into The 2010 Mustang.

 

interesting find. good job!

 

It still doesn't explain the lumpy, oversized, black plastic extension they're calling a "diffuser"

 

Good catch! Just as the 1999 model was shaped by "New Edge" design language, the 2010 is influenced by the "Kinetic" design language. Will it be referred to as the Kinetic Mustang?

 

As usual, there's always a reason these details are done the way they are. Designers rarely do anything "just because."

Nice find, Shawn.

 

Man, I just don't get the tucking in of the sides. Mustangs aren't meant to be tucked like that.

More I look at it, the more I wanna

 

good find, the first sketch's rear really does look like the new stang's

 

Good find. The '10 does come off as a somewhat ham-handed pastiche of various FoMoCo styling idioms that together, come off as a bit incongruous and clumsy, certainly lacking the design clarity of the '05.

Many of the elements, the hood bulge for example, look fine on their original platform (Intercepter Concept), but kind of gratuitous and too large. The rear end seems like the bastard child of the Iosis Concept and the Mustang Giugiaro Concept after a bit too much thalilomide.

None of it is horrible, not even the black diaper, that appears in need of a changing, drooping from the back end, but the overall effect seems to say design by committee rather than reflecting a clearer and more cohesive vision of a single designer.

 

Ford needs to read this but,I don't think they could handle the truth.

 

you've got real good insight into this stuff

 

Hear, hear. My first impression on seeing the entire car was design-by-committee. As though too many people pushed for their own favorite design elements with insufficient integration to make a cohesive whole.

The '05 was bashed for being too "plain", which just made it a great starting point for customization and personalization. The '10 looks like it's already been over-customized.

 

Kinetic. Sounds good to me. K Stang for short.

 

K Car!

 

Thanks AGBULLIT, I Like That! I Would Be Proud to be the One That Makes the 2010 Known as The Kinetic Mustang. Even it's New Logo follows that Kinetic Theme, with it's Skin Taughtly Streched Over It's Muscle And Bone. That's what I see in the 2010.


And as usual, Thanks for the positive comments, zzcoop, MBK, stangrider98, SuperSugeKnight, and classix_stang289

 

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Originally Posted by zzcoop

K Car!

OH HELL NO! I Don't Think So.....LOL

 

I Don't Understand What You Mean By the tucking in of the sides? Please Elaborate.

 

I think he means the beveled rear corners.

 

I Kinda Thought that but I wasn't Sure the way he said "the tucking in of the sides" In my mind when you say tucking in the sides Implies the sides of the car.

 

Tuck the tucking tuckers.

 

Tuck You!