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Ford’s new Mustang has been inching towards us for such a long time…

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That all excitement and anticipation might have evaporated when it finally arrives.

The 50th anniversary of Lee Iacocca’s original Mustang fell in this year, 2014, but Ford have blurred the edges of that key anniversary and are saying that the new car will celebrate 50 years of the Mustang in 2015. Well, if you say so.

After such a long gestation, therefore, the new Mustang had better be good. Which will make a welcome change.

 

The Mustang was always among the least convincing of Detroit’s attempts to emulate European chic. Unlike Harley Earl’s rapturous Chevrolet Corvette or the stonking Z28 Camaro, the Mustang – originally based on the Falcon compact saloon – was usually blockish, ponderous and wibbly-wobbly. The 390 Fastback that Steve McQueen drove in that immortal chase in Bullitt – and which made the car the stuff of automotive dreams – had about as much connection with the standard Mustang as astrophysics has to do with primary school arithmetic. Subsequent iterations have invariably disappointed.

The new Mustang will, apparently, house a new 2.3 litre, four-cylinder EcoBoost engine producing 305 bhp and an entirely new chassis including multilink rear suspension. Styling is chunky, muscly and reminiscent at first sight of the latest Camaro.

Naturally, we wish it well; but remain to be convinced.

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