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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: auto; autoindustry; ford; mustang
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To: HEY4QDEMS
Wasn't there once a wagon variation of the corvette? I think it was called the Nomad.

Not the 'Vette. Chevy Belaire.


81 posted on 12/14/2006 11:46:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
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To: Abathar

I have the Durango the 01 model,it has a blind spot in the front, when you need to turn left the support bar on the front drivers side can block your view at times. You have to lean to the right to see around it.


82 posted on 12/14/2006 11:50:40 AM PST by linn37 (Love your Phlebotomist)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG
Dodge Magnum was the first thing that came to my mind..

sw

83 posted on 12/14/2006 11:51:26 AM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: linn37
Now that I am older with kids I will take a car that is designed to be practical and safe over style any day of the week. My Suburban has a blind spot so bad on the drivers side back corner I had to buy a fisheye mirror and glue it to my outside mirror to keep from running other people off the road when I merge left.
84 posted on 12/14/2006 11:54:01 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Abathar

So thats why you burban drivers keep cutting me off......j/k


85 posted on 12/14/2006 11:57:36 AM PST by linn37 (Love your Phlebotomist)
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To: linn37

Yep, that and we feel we own the road anyway... :-)


86 posted on 12/14/2006 11:58:31 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Abathar

You have to get in front of me to own it,good luck!


87 posted on 12/14/2006 12:02:15 PM PST by linn37 (Love your Phlebotomist)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Ahhh. The Vega wagon. Imagine the one in that picture, only a lovely tan color. Now imagine it after a Mack dump truck has hit it at a 30 degree angle just behind the driver's seat at about 30 mph. Nobody was hurt as my brother was the only one in the car, but that's what happened to my family's Vega wagon. Squished like a bug.


88 posted on 12/14/2006 12:18:23 PM PST by Ol' Sox
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To: lainie

Remember back in the 70's, when the Mustang and the Pinto were the same car with different sheet metal?


89 posted on 12/14/2006 12:22:10 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: lainie

I'd say there would be a likelihood of a variant to compete with the new Dodge Magnum.... I don't know if it should be badged as a mustang, but to share the basic underlying platform, and only change the sheetmetal and layout might not be a bad move.

Magnum seems to have done well for dodge, and cross over is in... why not a Ford sporty version of one?


90 posted on 12/14/2006 12:27:27 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: RightWhale
I always had a soft spot for the Buick Caballero wagons. I think they were only available for two years - either '56/'57 or '57/'58. They were four-doors, but pillarless, like the four-door hardtop sedans. Buicks were sweet machines back then.
91 posted on 12/14/2006 12:40:13 PM PST by CertainInalienableRights
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To: CertainInalienableRights

That roof style was the height of car fashion. The only problem with pillarless: one less place to put chrome.


92 posted on 12/14/2006 12:45:34 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: Red Badger
They did a Cougar variant a couple years ago. Didn't sell well, so it got canned.......

Yeah, that was the fate of the most recent T-Bird as well.

The one that's being discussed now holds a bit more promise:

The Cougar, with its cushier interior and more "refined" sheetmetal, riding on a slightly retuned Mustang chassis, should be an even bigger success this time around than it was in the '60s. Of course, Ford's solvency wasn't dangling by a thread in '67, either. If stupidity truly reigns in Dearborn, they'll kill the Cougar project and green-light the Mustang Wagon - probably with a "Sport Package", complete with Shelby-like LeMans stripes (gak!!).

93 posted on 12/14/2006 12:48:58 PM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: RightWhale

Wasn't there also a 2-door Pontiac wagon in '55 or '56, as well? I think it had the chrome trim strips on the tailgate, just like the Nomad.


94 posted on 12/14/2006 12:52:57 PM PST by Charles Martel (Liberals are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: newheart
Eeeeewww. It'll look like a Dodge Magnum with an overbite and shoulder pads. Of course the Magnum is nothing but a station wagon on testosterone.


95 posted on 12/14/2006 12:56:45 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama - Ted Kennedy's Left-Hand Man.)
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To: Charles Martel

There probably was. I used to be able to identify model in the dark in those years simply from headlight reflections. Taillights were too easy, anybody could do that. Now I am fortunate to spot my own car in the parking lot in broad daylight.


96 posted on 12/14/2006 12:59:25 PM PST by RightWhale (RTRA DLQS GSCW)
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To: Charles Martel

That is one Cool Cougar!......Probably never see the streets, tho......too logical!......Hope they incorporate the "Sequential Turn Signals" of the original!......


97 posted on 12/14/2006 1:01:34 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: linn37

Hehehe, you do have me beat in that department...


98 posted on 12/14/2006 1:03:18 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly catching hell for posting without reading the article since 2004)
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To: Charles Martel

99 posted on 12/14/2006 1:06:32 PM PST by CertainInalienableRights
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To: Charles Martel

100 posted on 12/14/2006 1:07:16 PM PST by CertainInalienableRights
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