A Mustang wagon?!? Say it ain't so

CNN ^ | 12/14/2006

[Yo-Yo]

[Red Badger]

http://www.mustangclubsweden.com/

[lainie]

Yes, except that I don't have 100% faith that Ford won't be dumb enough than to market it as a Mustang for the family set. Honestly.

[lainie]

Holy crap, you're right. I owned a '79 Fairmont sedan once. What a complete piece of you-know-what. The '83 Mustang I had wasn't much better, but looked slightly hipper.

[uglybiker]

Will it have a fold-down seat facing out the back? Maybe a compass mounted on the dash? Trailer hitch to pull that Nimrod pop-top camper? Little decals in the window of all the places you've been?

Don't forget the chrome luggage rack!

Oh yeah. And the high-grain vinyl seat coverings 'with the look of hand-tooled leather'.

Next they'll be resurrecting such phrases as "Smart European styling" and "sparkling performance".

[BurbankKarl]

[PurpleMan]

A sure sign that the Apocalypse is upon us

[Charles Martel]

I'd love to hear Carroll Shelby's opinion of this engineering exercise. IMO, they'd have better luck with that concept if they first spun off a Cougar variant (I've already seen one such artist's conception - not bad at all). Lincoln/Mercury has had a lot of experience with very eccentric vehicle designs... witness the Lincoln Blackwood. Bottom line - make the Cougar look "different enough" first, then base the wagon on that model.

More likely, this one will be a stillborn design idea. Ford already has the Escape and Freestyle to cover the small, sporty or "crossover" SUV/wagon market. All this proposal will do is piss-off legions of Mustang fans. But then, the Ford Probe *almost* replaced the RWD platform and became the Mustang back in the '80s. This elicits the same response: Blech!

[MissEdie]

Found On Road Dead

[Hatteras]

[lainie]

Fix Or Repair Daily

[Yardstick]

The Germans have got the rare knack for creating cool looking four-door cars.

[Leisler]

Looks like the rear of a Sable/Taurus wagon. Does everything Ford make have to go through a "Blanding Committee"?

[lainie]

It's all true. I, as a matter of fact, now drive a Passat, which is engineered properly, behaves as it should, and looks pretty cool doing it. Guess that makes me a car lover, because I'm not wealthy. But the thing is, you don't have to pay through the nose for some bitchen Flueven Hueven Farfegnugen.

[Red Badger]

They did a Cougar variant a couple years ago. Didn't sell well, so it got canned.......

[linn37]

I think the Magnum's sharp. I saw one all tricked out and I would have been happy to drive it.

[RightWhale]

We had a '55 Chevy station wagon in '55. Is that 'proper' enough?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That's not so horrible, but I wouldn't pick yellow.

I've always driven POS cars. I'm saving up for a really great car for my late Mid-Life Crisis. :)

[RightWhale]

Our neighbors had a Nomad, which was just the same as our station wagon except with even more chrome.

[Abathar]

They are really nice, but the windows are tiny, and when I test drove one I couldn't back the thing up and see anything. Another thing I didn't like was if you were the first person at a light you have to lay over the dash to see it. Looked and drove great though, but the styling really cut down on visibility.