2010 Ford Mustang to look smaller

Posted: Jun 02, 2008
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With the market moving over to smaller cars, anyone seen driving a large car may be seen as a gas-guzzling hog. As a result FoMoCo will do its best to make the next-generation Ford Mustang to look smaller.

“We have a car which I think is more suitable for the times than the Challenger and the Camaro,” said Ford Motor’s North American design director, Peter Horbury. “Especially the Challenger “” it is a huge car when you see it on the road.”

Horbury said that size wise, the 2010 Ford Mustang remains the same in overall length and width as the 2008 model. However, cleverness in design will give off an illusion of a smaller car.

Ford is even rumored to add its 3.5 liter EcoBoost twin-turbo V6 to the 2010 Mustang.

The redesigned and re-engineered model is expected to go on sale early next year.

 

Source: Automotive News (Subscription Required)


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  • bobmarley

    Smart move by focomo, if this were a few years ago i would say its stupid to put a 4 or 6 cylander in a legendary muscle car but with gas prices so high it will easily counter the desired modern old school mucle car, and the power they can squeez out of a twin turbo V6 should do fine especially if its lighter and smaller. BUT this kind of change can ruin a cars image, maybe they should look into creating a new smaller sport car rather than messing with the mustang image

  • justmatt

    This will most likely work very well for Ford. People can laugh, but the Mustang II in the 70's sold very well, and the Fox platform Mustang kept tighter deminsions than Camaro and outsold it just about every year. Ford knows they can always up the ante with bigger engines if the times dictate the need.

  • Nic

    look an awful lot like a crossfire

  • Nic

    look an awful lot like a crossfire