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A Mustang wagon?!? Say it ain't so
CNN ^
| 12/14/2006
Posted on 12/14/2006 9:50:42 AM PST by lainie
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Would Mustang Sally drive a station wagon? Maybe she'll get the chance.
The next generation of the Ford Mustang could include some previously unthinkable variants including a four-door sedan and a station wagon, according to a report in the magazine AutoWeek.
"To a Mustang purist, this is blasphemy," said Bob Gritzinger, AutoWeek's senior editor for news.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auto; autoindustry; ford; mustang
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse
61
posted on
12/14/2006 10:27:08 AM PST
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: HEY4QDEMS
62
posted on
12/14/2006 10:27:32 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: eraser2005
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.
63
posted on
12/14/2006 10:30:11 AM PST
by
lainie
To: spinestein
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.
64
posted on
12/14/2006 10:31:44 AM PST
by
lainie
To: Hatteras
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".
65
posted on
12/14/2006 10:35:02 AM PST
by
uglybiker
(A bunch of radical Unitarians left a flaming question mark on my lawn!)
To: lainie
To: lainie
A sure sign that the Apocalypse is upon us
To: Red Badger
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!
68
posted on
12/14/2006 10:39:21 AM PST
by
Charles Martel
(Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
To: lainie
69
posted on
12/14/2006 10:41:00 AM PST
by
MissEdie
(Liberalscostlives)
To: HEY4QDEMS
70
posted on
12/14/2006 10:41:18 AM PST
by
Hatteras
To: MissEdie
71
posted on
12/14/2006 10:45:00 AM PST
by
lainie
To: Leisler
The Germans have got the rare knack for creating cool looking four-door cars.
To: Rb ver. 2.0
Looks like the rear of a Sable/Taurus wagon. Does everything Ford make have to go through a "Blanding Committee"?
73
posted on
12/14/2006 11:05:49 AM PST
by
Leisler
To: Leisler; Yardstick
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.
74
posted on
12/14/2006 11:31:46 AM PST
by
lainie
To: Charles Martel
They did a Cougar variant a couple years ago. Didn't sell well, so it got canned.......
75
posted on
12/14/2006 11:36:55 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
To: Abathar
I think the Magnum's sharp. I saw one all tricked out and I would have been happy to drive it.
76
posted on
12/14/2006 11:40:55 AM PST
by
linn37
(Love your Phlebotomist)
To: Mac1
We had a '55 Chevy station wagon in '55. Is that 'proper' enough?
77
posted on
12/14/2006 11:43:09 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: PBRSTREETGANG
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. :)
78
posted on
12/14/2006 11:43:15 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: CertainInalienableRights
Our neighbors had a Nomad, which was just the same as our station wagon except with even more chrome.
79
posted on
12/14/2006 11:45:00 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(RTRA DLQS GSCW)
To: linn37
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.
80
posted on
12/14/2006 11:45:48 AM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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