Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted August 20, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted August 20, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Ford Mustang variants shown to dealers at a meeting full of potential products This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up April and May lit a few fires in the pony car world, such matters especially of interest now that there’s one pony car left, the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up President Mark Reuss This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to Motor Trend, imagining a fun-to-drive electric four-door priced in the ballpark of the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , which starts at $43,295 with destination. Given a federal tax credit, that would put the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up price below all of its competition, assuming performance to make the entry-level trim worth it. Across the Michigan suburbs at This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , CEO Jim Farley This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up on what might be possible with This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , ruling out a pure electric variant and seeming to rule out an off-road-focused model, while leaving the door(s) open to a sedan-ish model “as long as [it has] the performance and attitude of the original.” Those doors are now officially ajar after Ford’s This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up meetings in Las Vegas. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up dealers were shown a variety of potential future models, including four-door and off-road-ish versions of the Mustang. Unnamed attendees at the meeting said Ford called the family version of the Mustang the Mach 4, shown as a rendering. The second concept, a “rugged” off-road version AN described as a “Baja model,” was shown in a photo. We’re not sure Ford referred to the model as “Baja” or that’s AN’s description, and we also wonder if the fact that the Mach 4 was a rendering and the Baja was a photo means one is closer to potential market launch than the other. Vaughn Gittin Jr’s RTR contributed a third take on the pony car, this one an EcoBoost variant to start in the $40,000 area ( This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up ). The engine choice strays from the Coyote V8 focus RTR’s known for. Such a model would help Ford expand the performance credentials of the turbo four-cylinder, filling in the blank left by Ford This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up for 2025, and at around the same price, too. It’s been reported that RTR is also trying to grow its own range of vehicles and sell them in-house, not just through OEM dealers. The last horse in the corral was a high-performance convertible ‘Stang convertible with a manual transmission, one noted for bearing no Shelby badges. This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up mules and prototypes of what we’d expect to be a new This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up have been testing for about a year, however, Ford might want a new name. The This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up is that the company is mulling an original name it coins — like Dark Horse in the Mustang realm or Raptor and Tremor for the pickup line — instead of continuing to license a badge. Not mentioned in any of this, we must also remember the overhead view of a This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up in April, hinting at even more ideas, perhaps those of the EcoBoost This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up variety. Elsewhere in the range, dealers got a look at a physical mockup of a compact van based on the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up pickup platform. This would effectively return the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up to our market, perhaps under a different name, and could roll out as soon as 2025. Dealers were also given a preview of a coming battery-electric platform to support a variety of models including a sedan, a small SUV, and a pickup. When AN asked Ford about the preview, an automaker spokesperson replied that there are “very exciting plans to expand our portfolio with This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up at all price points.” Dealers seem enthused, one calling it “awesome,” another telling AN, “It was the first good meeting in five years as far as being positive and focusing on the future.” You Might Also Like This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #Ford #Mustang #variants #shown #dealers #meeting #full #potential #products This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/105009-ford-mustang-variants-shown-to-dealers-at-a-meeting-full-of-potential-products/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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