Some dipshit from the American Spectator blames President Obama for changes to Mustang by Ford.

[stevedeshazer]

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The Ford Motor Company is giving its Mustang a unique 50th birthday present: death.

Detroit will still market an automobile called the Mustang. It just won't bear much of a resemblance to the iconic roadster driven by the likes of Lt. Frank Bullitt and James Bond.

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The Environmental Protection Agency may prefer Obamamobile Chevy Volts to the high-performance, low-mileage sports cars. But the American public exhibits a clear preference for the latter. Zero-to-sixty in five seconds just feels realer than global warming.

The classic American sports car survived the Pontiac Firebird, OPEC's oil embargo, and Ford's '70s-era Mustang II Pinto-like redesign. The Mustang won't survive Obama.

The Environmental Protection Agency may prefer Obamamobile Chevy Volts to the high-performance, low-mileage sports cars. But the American public exhibits a clear preference for the latter. Zero-to-sixty in five seconds just feels realer than global warming.

The classic American sports car survived the Pontiac Firebird, OPEC's oil embargo, and Ford's '70s-era Mustang II Pinto-like redesign. The Mustang won't survive Obama.

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God forbid that the Mustang be made more fuel efficient. This dope thinks it is more important to go 0-60 in five seconds than get decent mileage as gas prices keep going up.

Not to mention that the modern Mustang is already a piece of crap.

I'm sick of these guys who wish that it was still 1970 and still listen to 'classic rock'.

He's the guy who tailgates me and gives me the finger and passes me in a no-passing zone.

Nobody likes that guy.

Oops! edited to add link: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/04/20/the-mustang-becomes-an-obamam

[ingac70]

1. I preferred my 1992 4 cylinder Mustang...

can't even get a 4 cylinder one anymore.....

[2ndAmForComputers]

2. Wait, listening to classic rock is a right-wing thing?

[stevedeshazer]

5. Okay, I listened to plenty of it back in the day.

No offense, but I've moved on.

[yellowcanine]

37. No and neither is driving a Mustang. This is so much piffle.

[DonCoquixote]

3. Hey

Not everyone whol likes Classic Rock is a right winge dipshit. Many of us still like our old rock, especially for the left wing lyrics that the idiots ignore.

Find a better anti war song than "warpigs" or a better anti gun song than "Saturday Night special" by of all people, Lynyrd Skynrd.

[stevedeshazer]

7. Saw Skynyrd twice.

Love Sabbath.

Most folks who are progressive that I know have moved on.

[Fumesucker]

18. Bieber bless you...

[dionysus]

4. how bizarre that you think classic Rock is right wing.....

[stevedeshazer]

10. A partial list of the bands I saw back then

Journey
Bachman-Turner Overdrive
Foghat
ZZ Top
Aerosmith
Styx
REO Speedwagon
Kiss

If it is still your primary music when you are tailgating me in your Mustang in 2012, may I suggest that you listen to a wider variety of music.

Just sayin'. No offense. I still crank up Golden earring in my Civic once in a while, going 5 mph over the speed limit and minding my own business.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Hmmmm...

Someone needs to point out to this idiot that the electric Tesla roadster can do 0-60 in 3.7 seconds.

[madokie]

8. Dipshit for sure

I'd love to have a new mustang but the 1000 miles a year I might drive just wouldn't justify it.

[Canuckistanian]

9. If you want to go fast, there are plenty of other cars

Why does a car's name have to be synonymous with speed?

The car engineers and designers aren't in the business of making cars few will buy.

These So-called "Fast cars" have died every decade, along with the companies that produced them.

At least Obama saved THIS company from extinction.

[Fumesucker]

20. Ever notice that cars marketed to lower middle to middle class folks are identified by a name often?

While those marketed to the upper class usually have a number/letter combination as a designation?

Ford Mustang

Mercedes Benz SLK500

Chevy Impala

Audi A8

Dodge Stratus

BMW 750i

And so on...

[ProdigalJunkMail]

25. one of the biggest 'non-points' ever made on this board

congrats...

sP

[Fumesucker]

27. I love you too..

[hughee99]

30. I never noticed that, can I play?

Ferrari California

Scion XB

Lamborghini Aventador

Mazda 2.

Wait, I don't think I'm doing something right here.

[Fumesucker]

31. "Often" and "usually" have specific meanings, they are qualifiers..

Qualifiers that mean "not always"..

Lamborghini Diablo.

DeLorean

Fiberfab Valkyrie

Rolls Silver Cloud..

Ferrari Testarossa

....

Chevy Camaro.

Chevette

Chevelle

Corvette

Impala

Caprice

Bel Air

Biscayne

Cruze

Chevy II (half name half number)

Nova (doesn't go in Spanish)

Suburban

Volt

Tahoe

Traverse

Colorado

Silverado

Avalanche

Aveo

Sonic

HHR (just letters no numbers)

[hughee99]

32. Okay then,

Did you notice that your 3 "named" cars are all from american manufacturers and your three "numbered" cars were from European manufacturers?

You'd have a valid argument if Ford was making the "Ford asskicker" for the lower range market and the "Ford 2XPNSv4U" for the high end market, but otherwise you're mixing apples and oranges.

[Fumesucker]

34. Ferrari is American?

Rolls Royce?

Ford GT40 is the highest of high end in Ford.

[hughee99]

36. I was referring to the ones you named initially.

Audi, BMW and Mercedes.

And if I understand correctly, the GT40 hasn't been produced in more than 40 years, and the GT hasn't been produced since 2008.

[Fumesucker]

38. Didn't realize we were only talking about current models..

Sorry for bothering you..

[Make7]

11. Glass-Steagall had NOTHING to do with the 2015 Ford Mustang design. ( n/t )

[freshwest]

14. It's been proven that Glass-Steagall never existed. Put down the pipe!

[DCKit]

12. Fuck that, he just made it look more Black, and cooler.

OUR President can do anything.

[Lost-in-FL]

13. You mean that serious car enthusiasts still buy Mustangs?

Teehee...

This article is more a swipe at the Obama administration than about Mustangs. I am sure he was one of those hoping that the whole car industry "dies", not just the mustangs.

[frylock]

17. mustangs are very tuneable..

so yeah, enthusiasts still buy and build up mustangs. that being said, the article is a crock o shite.

[freshwest]

15. What do you mean *some* dipshit at American Spectator? The entire staff is nothing but dipshits.

[Politicalboi]

16. This will go over like

New Coke.

[HooptieWagon]

19. The original muscle cars

Were killed off more by insurance rates than they were pollution controls or gas prices. I suspect much the same now.

[Silver Swan]

21. I probably had too much beer with my pizza to answer

But our Mustang is much more fuel efficient than our Explorer.

The only reason we bought the Explorer, is that I was frightened of all the idiots who threatened us because they thought we weren't driving the Mustang fast enough. The idiots in this area are pretty scary.

Why is everyone is such a hurry?

I will buy an itty-bitty fuel efficient car when the idiots also drive itty-bitty fuel efficient cars.

I don't even drive, but I am a frightened passenger, who doesn't want to be at the mercy of all the idiot drivers out there.

[Fumesucker]

22. Dodging idiot drivers is much more easily accomplished in a small car than a large one..

Smaller target for one thing and better handling overall in order to engage in evasive maneuvers.

The safest car is the one that does not collide with other vehicles, not the biggest/strongest.

[JVS]

23. Has this guy not been noticing the horsepower war between the Mustang and Camaro in recent years?

Since 2008 both the 6 and 8 cylinder versions of the mustang have gained about 100 hp, with the v-6 going from 210 to 305 and the v-8 going from 300 to 412.

[gulliver]

24. Republicans need to be called out for putting down American-made products.

This bozo is attacking both the Volt and the Mustang. There is still a recession on and Americans are still looking for work. Why are Republicans putting down our products?

[flvegan]

26. I'm having a tough time telling who is the more ignorant one. n/t

[MattBaggins]

28. He is a dipshit

Americans do not prefer the gas guzzlers anymore.

If a majority of people really wanted muscle cars these days, they would be manufactured and politicians wouldn't make a peep.

[NoGOPZone]

29. Notice this idiot didn't mention who was in office

when that Mustang II that he hates came out?

[former9thward]

33. Whover created the new design it is incredibly ugly.

It is now just another compact car. I have owned five Mustangs in my lifetime but I would never consider buying this one.

[Mopar151]

35. These chumps don't care about facts - just want to bloviate and blame Obama for whatever they can

The new Mustang EcoBoost V-6 makes almost 300 hp (net - not the old, puffed-up gross ratings from the 60's), and gets 29 mpg.
Ford isn't dumping the Mustang anytime soon. Ford has been working at the "stratified charge" technology that underlies EcoBoost since the early 70's

A lot of people view cars of the 60's with great reverence, and attribute performance and refinement that most simply did not have.
I'm not one of them... I own a '72 F-350 with an old school, hot rod 302 - built similar to the Shelby Mustang small-blocks. Power is good (almost as much as the new V-6...) - but compared to the smooth-as-silk driveability of Ford's current EFI V-8's, it's rough as a cob.

[Fastcars]

39. The "Good Old Days" For Cars Is Now.

New cars, including the Mustang are superior to the cars of old in every way. You can go to your local Ford dealer and buy a 400+ horsepower Mustang drive it off the lot and 2000 miles to a racetrack on the other side of the country, race it, and then drive it 2000 miles back home without ever doing anything but putting gas in it.

A 4,000 mile round trip in even the lowest horsepower Mustangs of the 60s and 70s would be an adventure best undertaken only by a very mechanically inclined driver.

[Initech]

40. WTF kind of logic is that?

[Bombero1956]

41. Hey pal

I'm a liberal Democrat and I drive a 2006 Mustang GT. I'm hardly a speed demon. Any car will waste fuel if you have a heavy foot, even a Civic. The vast majority of us buy the Mustang because it is an iconic car that's fun to drive. Talk about painting with a broad brush.

[jmowreader]

42. Ford has fucked up the Mustang more times than you can count, and it's still here

If the Mustang could survive the two years Ford was making them out of Pintos, and the 14 years Ford was making them out of Fairmonts, it can survive anything.