Just saw my first 2005 muzy in the flesh at Glasgow airport, Scotland this morning...dark blue metalic ,good looking car...I would swop my '66 coupe for that !...which is more than I would say for the '74 to '94 versions......what a waste of 20years...looks just as easy to design a good looking car as a bad one.....
And thats why your family never left the 'old world' I imagine? taste? :)
My personal fav Mustang of 71+ would be a 85 GT with T-Tops, in red, with grey interior (red piping). There are so few nice four-eye examples around these days... Sigh... I saw a 85 GT convertible (same color scheme) when I went for groceries the other nite. Now thats a fairly rare car these days. It was in real nice shape too.
Nearly ! did my Grandfather went over worked in Newark NJ just before the war in '38 told his wife to sell up and come over but then changed his mind and came home.... shame...
I visted you lot in '79 '84 '02....things appear to be going down hill at every visit....never mind...
My family lived with your lot in 59-61 - Troon... right next door to St Andrews... and Prestwick.... Good people but the cars were kinda sucky... : ) Ford Anglia, Vauxhall, etc....
I do believe that it is a real challenge to actually design and produce an ugly car.... I'm reminded of the Edsel, Aztec, and a few others through the intervening years.... considering all the people who have to be convinced that the public will scoop them up, and the company is not going to lose any money on them.
people with no taste will buy anything !......one of my checks is to ask people if they think the Jaguar XJ-S was a good looking car....if they say yes they have no taste...simple......
I know I said 2005 and older than '74 were the best looking Mustangs ...but I have to say the '71/ '73 coupe (back window) and the '67/'68 fastbacks (slope shouldn't have gone all the way to the tail) were not very pleasing....from some angles.....
"No taste" simply means "doesn't agree with me." It's irrelevant what anyone thinks of a car's design, other than those who choose to buy one.
The VW Thing was sold to quite a few folks who had no taste. The current Scion box is absolutely horrid, but that's only MY opinion - they seem to sell well enough.
Frankly, some of the classic designs that are held up as automotive sculpture do little for me. That's what opinions are for. How boring, if we all thought alike.
Come to think of it, if we all thought the same about beauty, there would have been far too much competition over the woman who eventually became my wife...
So, you say you have a '66. That style must have pleased your eye. And between '66 and 2005, you haven't met a Mustang you liked... All well and fine. Frankly, I saw the '66 as a huge disappointment, and a styling faux pas that Ford didn't fix until the release of the Fox-body in 1979. The penultimate design styling, the year in which Ford finally got the Mustang perfected, was 1993.
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