Cars classics

Cars classics

1964 Ford Mustang

Ford / Mustang

This happened April 17, 1964. Powerful midsize cars with large engines gradually forced out of full-brothers from the market. Lee Iacocca, senior manager of Ford, foresaw that the small sports cars will be the next weapon in the Serious road wars and wars for the market. Ford has decided that, rather than to develop one of their previous models, it is better to create a new direction and a new class of machines - the pony-car. Initially the car was conceived as a double, in the best European traditions, but eventually turned four. To reduce costs, Mustang was based on the issued already Ford Falcon. But the twist in the Mustang was a huge number of additional options that could order the client and which brought additional revenue. Company Plymouth thought they would be able to knock out his Mustang with the market model Barracuda two weeks, but history has shown that for the first day sales of 22,000 Mustangs were sold, and the first two years, sales exceeded $ 2 million, which saturated the American market for those years is a huge figure. People turned their attention to a new class of pony cars and this is the only class of powerful cars, which still exists today.