My guess is that the current Ecoboost is going the way of the old V6. They did the same thing with reducing the options in its last year. Could 2026 be the year if the hybrid?
Not as many as you might think. I say this as a past owner of a ’15 EB. There have been some but there were many good reasons to buy the four banger. Except the sound, of course.
It was a thing. Like Sofa King said, they won't move. Probably end up a hybrid. (Probably a 4 door). The V8 mustang will sell not like they used to, but they will until they don't exist.
I highly doubt anyone has ever said that the EB was a muscle car. But if you want to be totally accurate, the Mustang, in any guise, was never a "muscle" car. It was always considered a "pony" car, as was the Camaro, Cougar, Challenger, and Barracuda. The first muscle car was the GTO, followed by many others.
The GTO was not the first muscle car I believe it was Rambler who first started putting full size car engines in smaller mid size cars and the big three followed. Yes Wikipedia says GTO is now recognized as the first muscle car but it was not. Because now this generation thinks anything is a muscle car even EV's. You could say a 32 ford with the new flathead was a muscle car it was a new big engine in a mid sized car. However with the internet and the younger generation thinking nothing existed before them now a muscle car can be anything so sad.
I should have said first recognized muscle car. There were others like the 1949 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and the 1955 Chrysler C-300. And then, as you so correctly stated, the 1957 Rambler Rebel.
