Lowest month sales ever - September 2025

[Zig]

Awful hard on young kids here...The economy is not good, everything is expensive as hell, and the Mustang is a $50K+ car. When I was in college I was broke as hell all the time, and drove shitboxes that fell apart as I drove......and yes, I worked after school but all that did was buy supplies and gas to get to school. Even out of college it took years of freelancing and interviews in my career path to finally make some money. I worked my ass off to get there.

Young people today are just trying to make due with what they have.

What's a decent job that's available for a 19 year old kid...doctor? Investment broker? C'mon....

That kid working the drive-thru at Wendy's today is making more an hour than I did back in the 80's at a professional level as a gov. contractor. And they are still broke.

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[Big Bird]

What I see young people driving is used up junk. They don't hold down decent jobs so they don't drive decent cars or they drive Mommie's car. They aren't circulating any money because they're still living at home.

Brother, do you do anything else with your free time besides watch Dave Ramsey videos and complain about how other people opt to spend their own money?

We get it, you are incredibly proud of your ability to budget and/or save up those hard earned pennies and now you are the proud owner of your very own Mustang thanks to those actions. Now you should try discussing Mustangs on this forum... dedicated to Mustangs (not personal finance).

 

[Stanzi]

Stop it bro. Stop it. lol...

As someone who was 30 years old in the year 2000 - I can PROMISE you there weren't any 33 cent snickers bars on normal shelves anywhere smh

Look - I can google AI too - and same AI on a different computer gives you a different result...

smh - stop with the AI madness.

Nothing but WRONG answers out there

 

[Starship Enterprise]

It all misses my point anyway...trying to explain why kids today can't afford a $50K car...LMAO

 

[MAT1955]

@mkstang_com ..... so what?

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Brother, do you do anything else with your free time besides watch Dave Ramsey videos and complain about how other people opt to spend their own money?

We get it, you are incredibly proud of your ability to budget and/or save up those hard earned pennies and now you are the proud owner of your very own Mustang thanks to those actions. Now you should try discussing Mustangs on this forum... dedicated to Mustangs (not personal finance).

Man you nailed it. It's every post with this guy. As if inflation and the cost of living haven't changed at all in the last 30 years. I'm surprised he forgot to drop in that he was a tier 1 supplier for Ford again.

 

[mkstang_com]

https://www.motor1.com/news/774486/ford-mustang-september-q3-sales-results-low/

 

[Zig]

Stop it bro. Stop it. lol...

As someone who was 30 years old in the year 2000 - I can PROMISE you there weren't any 33 cent snickers bars on normal shelves anywhere smh

Look - I can google AI too - and same AI on a different computer gives you a different result...

smh - stop with the AI madness.

Nothing but WRONG answers out there

Point was folks complain about the price of a car and yet even technology can’t get the historical price of a candy bar correct.

 

[Upacurb]

600 years ago you could get a horse drawn carriage and a few horses for a few dollars......these S650 Mustangs are a total rip off......

 

[robvas]

Stop it bro. Stop it. lol...

As someone who was 30 years old in the year 2000 - I can PROMISE you there weren't any 33 cent snickers bars on normal shelves anywhere smh

Look - I can google AI too - and same AI on a different computer gives you a different result...

smh - stop with the AI madness.

Nothing but WRONG answers out there

Candy bars were still 50 centsish back then and you could get 3/$1 on sale

 

[MikeyV]

Snickers bars were 50 cents in 1985. I know from experience.

My theory is that once a person learns the value of a dollar - say around the age of ten - his perception of cost and value is locked in for like. For ever after he will say "shit's so expensive these days".

When I was that age in the late 80's, a candy bar and a can of soda was a dollar. A house in CA was $150k. A new GT Mustang was $12.5k.

It was crazy to see a $20K mustang at one time, and crazy to see a $60K one today.

You guys remember teh 49/57/79 cent menu at Taco Bell? Hell yeah - you could feast on money found in your parent's couch.

 

[armyGT]

Keep in mind that there are new hidden prices today that we didn't have 15-20 years ago. Back then, nobody had a cell phone that costs around $100/month to feed. Cable TV can now cost up to $300/month. There are many items added to the monthly bills that we didn't have back then. Wages haven't increased with inflation, but the cost of utilities and groceries are crazy. All of these items are competing for Mustang money. A Mustang isn't a necessity, but food is!
It's just a matter of where you spend your money!

 

[Mustang1987]

This thread is ridiculous.

They had a stop sale on Mustangs for the past month and a half.

Before that, the last four months outsold the same time frame in 2024, and that's after Ford raised the s650s price by thousands and not being in its debut year.

Has to be a troll thread.

 

[R3G]

The 1998 Mustang GT cost $19.5K new. I bought it in 2003 for $9500 with 62,000 miles on it. I put $2000 of my basic training money as down payment and my payment was $218.48 for 48/Mo. It came standard with rear wing spoiler, 5 Speed manual, racing cloth seats and fog lamps. My options were a leather wrapped steering wheel, upgraded rear axel and Mach460 sound system that had both a cassette deck and CD player, with 225HP and 285 Lbs/ft. It was a great car, I kept it almost 9 years and put 200,000 miles on it. My point with the story…the modern mustang GT has Nearly twice the power, plus all sorts of mechanical and quality of life and safety items that werent required back then. Cars are more expensive but its not just inflation…EPA and other gov’t regs driving up the cost… we like external cameras, adaptive cruise and parking sensors and the modern Coyote is one hell of an engine to be in a production GT style car. We are so spoiled now and want cars with vented seats and lane keep assist, radar cruise, driving modes, leather interiors and all those features aren't cheap. Even tho a base mustang gt now costs more than twice what it did 25+ years ago new, you are getting way more for the money at base. Our dollars are weaker, thats for sure. But consumer expectations are also higher across the board on what “base” really means. Power windows used to be luxury items for example.

Buy what you can afford…this all said I think Ford’s prices across the board are too high. But folks keep buying at these prices. So expect prices to increase until people stop buying (looking at you bronco).

 

[Frogdog1]

Brother, do you do anything else with your free time besides watch Dave Ramsey videos and complain about how other people opt to spend their own money?

We get it, you are incredibly proud of your ability to budget and/or save up those hard earned pennies and now you are the proud owner of your very own Mustang thanks to those actions. Now you should try discussing Mustangs on this forum... dedicated to Mustangs (not personal finance).

Get over it dude. I bought and paid cash with my money for my brand new GTO when in college out of high school because I worked offshore summers starting at 17 (yes, illegal in age) making more money than I did for a few years out of college with an engineering degree and later a business degree. Some people just need to fill out paper applications for real work.

Anybody that wants to work that hard at 100 and 105 hour weeks for two weeks on and one week off for five summers in a row knows something about hard work and how to accumulate money and pay cash for things. No, I didn't do anything anybody else can't do today if they're willing to work and get paid well for it, and, no, I don't feel sorry for too many people with shitty jobs. It's called hard, smart work and saving money. THAT is how I buy Mustangs and everything else with cash and that IS about discussing Mustangs that people whine about being too expensive, bro. BTW, Dave Ramsey never worked as hard as I have. He just penny pinched his whole life.

LIke the old Western Company bumper sticker used to say, "If you don't have an oil well, get one". Makes it easier to enjoy Mustangs.

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