The announcement came straight from the lips of Jim Farley, CEO of the Ford Group: the Mustang, i.e. the coupé that has filled the American collective imagination of the everyday but at the same time high-performance car for 60 years, could also become a four-door, sedan-style one in the not too distant future.
4-door Mustang: never electric
Fans of the famous Blue Oval coupe can, however, rest easy. Interviewed by the British magazine Autocar during the 81st edition of the Goodwood Members Meeting, the Ford’s number one specified that the company will never make “a Mustang that isn’t a Mustang”. Production of the V8 engine will continue into the future and “there is no risk of anyone else in the company deciding to make a Mustang without the correct credentials,”
4-door Mustang: the passion of Henry Ford’s great-grandson
The reason is simple: The executive chairman of the company, Bill Ford (Henry Ford’s great-grandson) would never allow it. “He’s a Mustang fanatic,” says Jim Farley, “he owns a 1964 one, the one Jim Clark drove at the start of that year’s Indianapolis 500. He was a little boy sitting next to his father who was driving. If I told the executive chairman of Ford that we were looking at an all-electric Mustang coupe, he would tell me that he is looking at a new CEO, instead of me.”
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