May 26th, 2008
The Ford Mustang is a car manufactured by the Ford Motor Company. Based on the contemporary Ford Falcon compact car in the beginning, production began in Dearborn, Michigan, USA, on 9 March 1964 and it was introduced to the public on 17 April 1964 at the New York World’s Fair. Media exposure included being televised nationally by all three American television networks existing on 19 April 1964. It also appeared as a character’s auto in the famous James Bond film Goldfinger in September of 1964.

The Mustang had the most successful car launching in automobile history, selling, in its first eighteen months, more than one million cars (yes, 1,000,000 cars). The Mustang created the “pony car” model of automobiles — the sports car’s “long hood, short deck” design. It spawned competitors, the Camaro, inspired imported coupés, the Toyota Celica and Ford Capri. The Mustang car remains in production after four decades-worth of stylistic and technologic revisions.
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