2015 Mustang Articles
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If true Ford is going the wrong direction. Ford should think and move Mustang forward, not back. . Not saying it shouldn't have distinct Mustang cues but enough of this retro stuff. What once was cool is not more, is lazy design. If what people want is the look of early Mustang design then just go buy the real thing. There is actually now a company that is licensed to make the original chassis.
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I've said it before. The '05 was the much needed reset. Now Ford needs to properly evolve the Mustang rather than take the slash and burn approach the 71 and later Fox bodies were. Imagine the 65-70 evolution continuing honouring the car much as Porsche, the 911 to today. That's where the new Mustangs needs to be. Modern but very much a Mustang. So ditch retro stuff like round lights and SRA and give me a pony car for the future.
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I think they are talking more broadly conceptually than what we typically think of as a "retro" approach, ala the current Mustang.
The latter implies basically trying to recycle specific design elements and ques, often rather slavishly, from some particular design(s) of the past, to basically recreate that car for today. This is inherently a rather backwards looking perspective, implicitly yearning for some bygone day to recapture.
The former I think is, ironically, a more forward looking perspective: what was the Mustang's concept in the context of its day when it first came out, as distinct from any specific design elements of that original car. In that regard, the Mustang might be thought of as a smaller, more compact, somewhat cosmopolitan and very modern car, certainly in terms of style (for the production model) or even design and engineering (for the Mustang concept car).
I am quite comfortable with the latter conceptual approach and I think that better gybes with what else Ford and other have been intimating about the 2015 -- that like the Mustang Concept and 1965 Mustang, it will, from the perspective of their times, will be very modern, advanced and more worldly in approach.
The latter implies basically trying to recycle specific design elements and ques, often rather slavishly, from some particular design(s) of the past, to basically recreate that car for today. This is inherently a rather backwards looking perspective, implicitly yearning for some bygone day to recapture.
The former I think is, ironically, a more forward looking perspective: what was the Mustang's concept in the context of its day when it first came out, as distinct from any specific design elements of that original car. In that regard, the Mustang might be thought of as a smaller, more compact, somewhat cosmopolitan and very modern car, certainly in terms of style (for the production model) or even design and engineering (for the Mustang concept car).
I am quite comfortable with the latter conceptual approach and I think that better gybes with what else Ford and other have been intimating about the 2015 -- that like the Mustang Concept and 1965 Mustang, it will, from the perspective of their times, will be very modern, advanced and more worldly in approach.
In many ways, I think, conceptually, the '79 Foxstang was truer to the original '65 Stang than was the stylistically retro '05 Stang.
I suspect the '15 may sort of split the difference in the approaches of the aforementioned two, being much more modern and forward looking than the '05 yet not totally forsaking the now iconic stylistic cues as did the '79.
I suspect the '15 may sort of split the difference in the approaches of the aforementioned two, being much more modern and forward looking than the '05 yet not totally forsaking the now iconic stylistic cues as did the '79.
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Not that I want a modern fox body but the car itself was true to the original. It's hard to quantify in words though other than dimensions, affordability, flexibility of platform, and so on.
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What Ford's 2015 Mustang Could Look Like
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From a recent Edmunds article:
Designer Stewart Reed told Edmunds that many of his colleagues are anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the redesigned Mustang. Reed is chair of the undergraduate transportation design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
"I have heard some great words like 'stunning,'" Reed said. "This is coming from designers that are not even part of the team. They have seen the car from a distance and they are careful to not say what it is, exactly. To have a designer call someone else's design 'stunning' is pretty exciting."
Clearly they weren't talking about a Fusion coupe
Designer Stewart Reed told Edmunds that many of his colleagues are anxiously awaiting the unveiling of the redesigned Mustang. Reed is chair of the undergraduate transportation design program at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
"I have heard some great words like 'stunning,'" Reed said. "This is coming from designers that are not even part of the team. They have seen the car from a distance and they are careful to not say what it is, exactly. To have a designer call someone else's design 'stunning' is pretty exciting."
Clearly they weren't talking about a Fusion coupe
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