Although Ford withdraws one model after another from the market in the United States and South America, among others, some model names will live on forever. Although Ford is now also using the Mustang name for an electric SUV, the brand simply comes up with yet another successor to its legendary pony car. In this set of spy photos, the new generation Mustang gives a first sign of life.
The current sixth-generation Ford Mustang has been around for quite some years now. This Mustang was presented to the world at the end of 2013 and went under the knife in 2017. There is now just another new Mustang in the barrel, a car where the testing work seems to have already started. Why does the test specimen visible in these photos resemble the current model so much? We are dealing here with a test mule. Ford uses the current-generation carriage (S550) of the Mustang to test the technology of its successor.
The partially packed Mustang appears to be a mishmash of various Mustang versions. There are not only external details of the Mustang Mach 1, see for example the side skirts, but also of the GT and regular Ecoboost variants. At the rear we see completely new brakes with the claw on the right side of the brake disc. With this copy, the caliper is on the left. According to our spy photographer, this indicates the presence of four-wheel drive, although we do not dare to put our hand in the fire for that. Interesting detail: the driver of the test Mustang is kind enough to greet our spy photographer with a raised middle finger as we pass.
Ford is likely to supply the next-generation Mustang with an eight-cylinder, a further development of the 5.0 ‘Coyote’ V8 used in the current Mustang GT. The offer will undoubtedly be supplemented with four and six cylinders. This will probably also include one or more electrified variants.