Mustang1987
Well-Known Member
I want higher sales too, but if they had invested tens of millions more, then they would be more likely to discontine. It's not just mustang sales dropping, it's all muscle cars and sports cars dropping. Corvette, challenger, charger, Camaro... None are selling well. When people don't have money, they can't buy toys. The solution isn't to invest more and raise the price even more.Now look who’s making stuff up.
My point wasn’t for the mustang to be the corvette. It was to take a cue from it in terms of how hard that car tries to stand out and prove that it’s something special in the modern market moving forward. The mustang needs to do the same. Carrying forward a decade old platform and the same performance without really pushing it for the next however many years isn’t the formula - as the numbers are showing.
as a Mustang fan since I first learned what a car was, it’s concerning. What sucks is watching ford try to navigate the present and future with mustang SUVs, talk about it being a “family of vehicles” etc. while letting the real thing languish is frustrating. These kinds of numbers could see the car discontinued or deprioritized further as the board misreads the sales numbers as people don’t want pony cars anymore instead of owning up to their failure to push the envelope with America’s most beloved nameplate.
We’ve seen the Camaro in its death throes, the challenger die, the charger get turned into a 6 banger-only car and that’s something we’d prefer to see the mustang avoid.
the s650 as a platform has a lot of s550 baggage.
now, we will see a new gt500/cobra tier car that’s likely to inject some enthusiasm, but it’s still an s550+, limited by the platform itself.
I’m not unrealistic. I know ford has put the mustang in the cheap budget to get past some uncertain seasons in terms of vehicle trends. But lackadaisical advancements isn’t going to help dismal sales numbers.
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