Mustang II 'Cobra' complete with fake hood scoop.
To be fair the Pontiac Trans Am got one too.
Mustang II 'Cobra' complete with fake hood scoop.
To be fair the Pontiac Trans Am got one too.
Where’s the car?
RIP Farrah!
Not unusual for the Mustangs to have fake hood and side scoops but the side scoops were functional rear brake coolers during some years. The shaker hood scoop on the Mach 1 model New Edge gen's were functional too. The 90's are commonly referred to as the dark years for Ford Mustangs. It was the end of the Foxbody style then the SN95's with its rounded styling kicked in in 1994 then it changed somewhat in 1999 to the 'New Edge' styling with sharper edges - so to speak. It's like Ford was trying to figure out what direction it wanted to go in with the Mustang. I think they chose wisely.
One complaint is regardless of the model from 94-04; the interior was almost the same in all of them. They were also all built on the Foxbody chassis but the handling and engines did change over time. The 4.6L were generally 2 valve engines but some where 4V like the Cobra, Mach 1, and Bullit if I remember right. The 4.6L 2V had a nice sound but was really power limited while the 32V engines had a lot more potential with blowers and turbos and higher limits on the boost psi. The 4.6L was used in a lot of Ford's including the Police Interceptor Crown Victoria which proved to be quite reliable. I think the Mustangs get abused at the drag races because the owners wanted to see what their improvements (mods) gained them in trap time. The roller dyno's made this more scientific so the engines with the new software could be dialed in better than ever before.
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Then in 2005 they went retro which sparked a return of the Challenger. Both cars were very popular and still are.
Then in 2015 the Mustang had a sleeker more Euro look to it. It started to look more like an Aston Martin and the engine kept getting upgraded. This was nearly a production race car. In 2018 some models truly were street legal race cars with way more power than anyone could possibly "need" on the street but the bragging rights made it very popular and still is. The new 2020 Shelby500 Mustang, which hasn't been made yet, fetched a cool $1.1M for the first one to roll off the line.