Norm Peterson
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Corvette and T-bird are really further up-market than any of the small sedans that evolved into ponycars.I'm not forgetting Norm, but really the 260 CID was nothing to brag about either. And as far as the competition what about the Corvette, the Corvair, and , of course, Ford's own Thunderbird. And let's not forget the actual first Pony car, the Barracuda.
By the early 1960s the T-bird was already settled into its role as the personal-luxury Ford. Corvair never was a ponycar, and earned itself a lot of baggage (not all of which was deserved).
I'm not ignoring the Barracuda, but on the other hand the matter of it beating the Mustang to market - by a couple of weeks - never meant much.
The only thing that's revolutionary about the Mach E is its powertrain. Otherwise it's just another SUV (or CUV, depending on how one wishes to define those categories).Of course everything changed pretty quickly but I never thought of the Mustang as revolutionary. At least not in an engineering point of view. On the other hand, like it or not, for Ford the Mach-E is revolutionary.
Norm
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