Ford Mustang

The Ford Mustang, basically a Falcon modified into a sporty coupe, set the pace for a new genre of what came to be known as “pony cars.” A similar exercise in “market engineering” at General Motors created the “muscle car,” an intermediate-size car with a large…

…failure, but two others, the Mustang and the Thunderbird, were immensely popular and are widely considered to be classics. By the mid-1950s Henry II had restored the company to financial health, and subsequently he greatly expanded Ford’s operations in overseas markets.

…the Buick Roadmaster and the Ford Mustang. He described features such as steering wheels whose design could easily impale a driver in a crash, poor exhaust systems, and the unnecessary pollution produced by badly engineered cars.

…was a dark green 1968 Ford Mustang GT fastback, and it helped make the Mustang one of the most popular sports cars in the 1960s and ’70s.