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Bloodshed Motors dropped two electric motors into a 1968 Ford Mustang shell and built Zombie 222 — a car that hits 60 mph in 2.4 seconds and finishes the quarter mile in 10.7, outrunning nearly every gas-powered muscle car ever built. Not everyone in the comments is convinced electric conversions belong in classic bodies. The debate is as much a part of the story as the numbers.
Every August, one stretch of Pennsylvania drag strip pavement hosts what has grown into the World’s Largest One-Day Mustang Show, drawing more than 1,400 cars and thousands of spectators for a single day of racing, showing, and charity fundraising. Six decades of Mustang history share the same show field. Read on to find out what it takes to pull off a gathering this size without it collapsing into gridlock.
Ford expected the new Mustang to sell 100,000 units in its first year — buyers blew past that mark in under three months. This gallery traces the first-generation Mustang from its record-breaking 1964 debut through the Boss 302 era, with a surprising twist: the launch year wasn’t even the Mustang’s best-selling one. See which model year actually topped the charts.
US Mustang sales have been sliding as American buyers shift toward SUVs, yet the same car has become the best-selling sports coupe on the planet once global markets are counted. Ford’s decision to engineer the Mustang for right-hand-drive and international emissions standards opened dozens of new markets that had never had legal factory access before. Read on to see how one sales chart can miss the bigger picture entirely.
Ford’s fifth-generation Mustang solved a problem the company had struggled with for years: how to modernize an icon without losing what made it iconic in the first place. Built on an all-new platform but styled after the fastback Mustangs of the late 1960s, the 2005 redesign set the template every American pony car would follow for the next decade. Read on for the engineering decisions behind the comeback.
Most self-described Mustang fans can name the car on sight, but can they name the fighter plane it’s named after, or the year its horsepower hit an all-time low? This look at pony car trivia digs into the prototype badges, supercharger conversions, and Hollywood cameos that built the Mustang legend, ahead of a quick IQ test to see how much of it you actually knew.
Plymouth’s answer to the Ford Mustang did not just need to look sporty; it needed to earn the title, and the 1965 Formula S package was how it happened. A 235 horsepower Commando V8 paired with upgraded suspension and a factory tachometer turned an ordinary Barracuda into a genuine performer. Fewer than three thousand buyers ordered it that year, so why did the option that made the car worth having stay so rare?
For 23 months straight, the Ford Mustang outsold the Chevrolet Camaro every single month — until one September, when Chevrolet edged ahead by just 148 units, 6,577 to 6,429. The swing came right as Ford halted Mustang production over a sales slide, while new 2017 Camaro ZL1s were posting 554 rear-wheel horsepower on customer dynos. Read on to see how one of America’s oldest rivalries flipped in a single month.
Ford built this Boss 302 Mustang to satisfy SCCA Trans-Am homologation rules, which required at least 6,500 production copies before the race car could compete. Ford ended up building 7,014 for 1970, exceeding the quota by 514 cars, each carrying a fortified 302-cubic-inch V8 making 290 horsepower and a suspension tuned for road-course duty. Period road tests clocked the quarter mile in 14.9 seconds at 93.4 mph. Ford dropped the model after just two years on the market.
Two nearly identical turbocharged Mustangs, two well-known names from the online street racing scene, and a Houston backstreet that had hosted plenty of grudge matches before this one. Chris Hamilton’s BoostedGT went up against a car nicknamed Black Jesus in a race that came down to a margin thin enough to guarantee a rematch.
For the third January in a row, the Mustang outsold both the Camaro and the Challenger — even as all three pony cars posted some of their worst monthly numbers in years. The gap between first and third widened, not narrowed, during the slump. Here’s what the January 2017 numbers actually showed, and why a soft month didn’t tell the whole story.
Scottie Dyer picked this 1966 Mustang convertible for his Dirty Dozen lineup completely sight unseen, betting on Classic Restorations Of Southern Indiana’s reputation before ever laying eyes on the finished car. What showed up at the 2017 Pigeon Forge Rod Run backs up the gamble — a stance and wheel combination viewers immediately praised, paired with an engine bay built to look deceptively stock. Small shop, big test, national audience. Watch to see if the build holds up.
In January 2017, Ford promised a hybrid Mustang with more low-end torque than the standard V8, backed by a canceled $1.6 billion Mexican plant and $700 million in Flat Rock upgrades. The 2020 target came and went without the car ever showing up. Read on for where that money and engineering effort actually went, and why Ford’s CEO says the idea isn’t dead yet.
Ford spent five decades selling the Mustang on noise, torque, and attitude, then quietly engineered in independent rear suspension, magnetic dampers, and an exhaust system with a mode designed to avoid annoying the neighbors. The result was a better car in almost every measurable way, and it started an argument that has not ended. Read on for what changed, why it changed, and what Ford refused to give up.
Ford’s Mustang beat the Camaro and Challenger for a fifth straight month in March 2017, extending a streak to 27 wins in 29 months, but the raw sales totals hid a steep year-over-year decline. This piece unpacks the numbers behind that streak, why Camaro and Challenger were actually closing the gap underneath it, and what a winning streak built on a shrinking base actually signals.