How the 1990s saved the Ford Mustang—and what it means for its future.
than the fans. This might sound like platitudinal BS, but it's also true. At every turn when Ford could've either killed the famous pony car or made it worse, the Mustang's wildly vocal and passionate fan base stepped in to save it from ruin . Everyone likes to wax nostalgic about the original, but the truth is the two cars most responsible for keeping the model vital and setting it up for success into the 21st century are '90s babies.
The following summer, we reported the rebellion had begun to have an effect. The rear-drive Mustang GT received"a stay of execution," we wrote in July '87, and Ford planned on selling the Fox Body as the"Mustang Classic" alongside the new Mazda-based"Mustang IV," before phasing out the older version.
, even while a skunkworks popped up to develop what would become the SN95 Mustang. That's not to say Team Mustang, as it was called, was given much to work with—it had $700 million and three years to save the car. For comparison, the team across the hall working onand more than six years for its efforts. Some corners would need to be cut.For starters, the aging Fox platform was heavily modified to be more forgiving and livable than the rough-and-ready third-gen model.
The"Schwarzenegger" design study for the 1994 Mustang balanced classic design cues with modern styling and interior packaging that afforded good passenger space. It was ultimately chosen as the basis for the SN95.
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