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Kit Sullivan
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I kind of see your point with Grande, but I think your view of the entire Mustang line is a liitle biased towards the performance side of things. All Mustangs were not considered, marketed or viewed as "muscle cars", although that is its enduring image these days.
The base Mustsng was really just kind of considered a personal and economical coupe, no sporting pretensions inferred. The psrformance image was added to the base model.
Now, to be fair, while I disagree with your saying that making a "luxury" sports car is schizophrenic...I will say that for the 71-73 body style I actually agree with you, but for a diffetent reason.
The original 65 Mustang was designed as a coupe and a convert', and looked great as both. When the fastback came later, it also looked great.
That is because the designers started with a coupe and got that right. Almost any coupe will look good with a fastback added to it.
But, for the 71-73s they did it reverse. Owing to the increadi.g popularity of muscle cars, the 71 car was designed as a pure fastback first, then the coupe version was cobbled up afterwards.
Coupe to fastback almost always works well.
Fadtback to coupe hardly ever works as well.
My apologies as well to any coupe or Grande owners...its just an opinion, nothing important.
The base Mustsng was really just kind of considered a personal and economical coupe, no sporting pretensions inferred. The psrformance image was added to the base model.
Now, to be fair, while I disagree with your saying that making a "luxury" sports car is schizophrenic...I will say that for the 71-73 body style I actually agree with you, but for a diffetent reason.
The original 65 Mustang was designed as a coupe and a convert', and looked great as both. When the fastback came later, it also looked great.
That is because the designers started with a coupe and got that right. Almost any coupe will look good with a fastback added to it.
But, for the 71-73s they did it reverse. Owing to the increadi.g popularity of muscle cars, the 71 car was designed as a pure fastback first, then the coupe version was cobbled up afterwards.
Coupe to fastback almost always works well.
Fadtback to coupe hardly ever works as well.
My apologies as well to any coupe or Grande owners...its just an opinion, nothing important.