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Donebrokeit Reader
10/4/12 1:57 p.m.

Anymore info on this? What model and year (Please)

Paul B

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Like this Musta... whoops Aston Martin?

bravenrace PowerDork
10/4/12 2:00 p.m.

oldsaw wrote: Except for the hideously huge wheels and sketchy headlight design, I like this artist concept. If an Ecoboost four-banger helps shave off a few hundred pounds, count me as a fan. I'd seriously consider buying one - if it was in the budget.

Unless there's new technology, I can't see those slit style headlights making it into production, but who knows. All along I've heard that this car was NOT going to be retro, and although this concept isn't maybe as retro as the current car, it still has a lot of older mustang design elements. I think it's important to keep in mind that this isn't an official Ford image, and the end result may look very different...or not.

ransom GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
10/4/12 2:00 p.m.

alfadriver wrote: In reply to ransom: For that Vantate, the Mustang pre-dated it by some time. That looks like the late 60's version, and not the original. Aston didn't come out with it until 1977, well into the Mustang II styling. Odd to see a late '60's car come out in the late 70's like that, and last the better part of another decade.

Whoops! There was a crucial typo in my last post, that was supposed to be "now the Mustang looks like an Aston", not "not the Mustang looks like an Aston"...

bravenrace PowerDork
10/4/12 2:04 p.m.

In reply to Donebrokeit:

It's a '77 Aston Martin Vantage V8

Ian F PowerDork
10/4/12 2:16 p.m.

bravenrace wrote: In reply to Donebrokeit: It's a '77 Aston Martin Vantage V8

The Lotus dealer I pass by every morning is also Steel Wings - an Aston Martin restoration and modification shop, so I see these with some regularity (it's kinda funny passign the place in the winter and seeing $100K+ cars covered with snow). This is one they sold recently:

http://www.princetonlotus.com/ViewClassic.aspx?id=394

IIRC, the asking price was ~$135K.

LainfordExpress Reader
10/4/12 5:06 p.m.

It seems preposterous to me that Ford has 15M Mustangs running around without camo this far from production start.

Javelin GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
10/4/12 5:29 p.m.

bravenrace wrote: All along I've heard that this car was NOT going to be retro, and although this concept isn't maybe as retro as the current car, it still has a lot of older mustang design elements.

Very true, but even Ford has admitted that there are some Mustang "elements" that will always remain. IIRC, it was the pony in the upper grill, the tri-bar taillights, and some sort of side scoop. They can really move forward with design but still have it be easily identifiable as a "Mustang" without going retro.

TeamEvil Reader
10/5/12 2:04 p.m.

The side profile of that 2013/4 Mustang concept looks WAY too much like the crappy 2003/4 to ever make it into production with anything NEAR that look.

Take a bad design and make it worse. I think that Chevy has that already covered.

bravenrace PowerDork
10/5/12 3:55 p.m.

In reply to LainfordExpress:

They don't.

bravenrace PowerDork
10/5/12 3:58 p.m.

TeamEvil wrote: The side profile of that 2013/4 Mustang concept looks WAY too much like the crappy 2003/4 to ever make it into production with anything NEAR that look. Take a bad design and make it worse. I think that Chevy has that already covered.

That was my point. There's way too much retro there for a car they said wasn't going to be retro. I understand that it still needs to look like a Mustang, but there's not much there that is new.