There’s nothing quite like the first. The Ford Mustang made its debut at the World’s Fair in New York on April 17, 1964 to enormous fanfare by the driving public. Because of its mid-year launch, the very first Ford Mustang is commonly referred to as the 1964 ½. According to My Classic Garage, Ford executives
If you’re a fan of the #3 Mustang on our list of all-time greats, you can thank…Mopar??? *Gasp* Truth is there is plenty of credit to go around for the 1969 Boss 429 Mustang, but the impetus for the legendary “Boss 9” was Chrysler’s 426 HEMI engine. Ford was looking to develop a hemispherical engine
We’re all suckers for the gorgeous old bodies of the 1960s and 70s, but you can’t ignore what the 2013 Shelby GT500 delivered under the hood. Chew on these numbers, Ford haters: 662 horsepower. 631 foot-pounds of torque. 200-plus miles-per-hour top speed. Ford SVT’s 5.8L supercharged V8 engine introduced in this car added 112 horsepower
There certainly have been more powerful Mustangs. There have been better looking ones, too. But you can’t underplay the role of the 1987 Mustang 5.0L in getting Ford’s legendary pony car back on track as a desirable performance vehicle. After a lackluster period from the Mustang II era of the mid-1970s to early Fox-bodies of the
America loves Mustangs. Maybe you don’t. Maybe you’re a Chevy guy. Or a Mopar guy. Or someone who just doesn’t like a good success story. But America-at-large loves the Ford Mustang. Because it pretty much launched the American pony car movement. Because it helped make performance vehicles affordable for a younger generation of car owners in the 1960s. And because
We started with 16 muscle cars and today we’re left with one shining star—literally. After three weeks of head-to-head voting, the Nova still burns brightly above all others in our 2014 Muscle Car Match-Ups competition. You voted the 1969 Chevrolet Yenko Nova as this year’s muscle car champion. And for some reason, we’re a little
It’s a Mopar versus Chevy final. Just one year removed from an all-Ford championship in last year’s Muscle Car Match-Ups tournament, you’ve voted the 1969 Chevrolet Yenko 427 Nova into the finals where it will face the 1970 Plymouth HEMI ‘Cuda for the 2014 crown. Vote now for your champion. Here is the finals match-up:
The star of what is widely considered the best car-chase scene in movie history is back. Photographers at KGP Photography spotted what they believe to be the 2015 Ford Bullitt Mustang in Dearborn, MI, and shared the images with SEMA. You can read the SEMA post here. The original Steve McQueen-driven 1968 Mustang GT 390
You complained about the Shelby Cobra not being a muscle car. It’s gone. You called the Camaro Z/28 a pony car. It’s also gone. You voiced your displeasure at the AMC being, well–an AMC. It too is gone. One-by-one, you’ve weeded out the also-rans and pretenders to whittle our field of 16 down to four–the Final
Remember when cars used to have personality? Chances are if you’re less than 50 years of age, you don’t. With a few exceptions, you have to travel back to a time before the early-1970s to the heyday of the American performance movement. This era—from post World War II through the early-70s—is where you find cars with character. From
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