We could wonder if Ford tried to test the waters with a more affordable personnal luxury coupe below the Thunderbird? Or even to move slightly the 'Stang to the personnal luxury market O_o (Ford tried this later when the introduced the Gran Torino Elite for '74, simply named Elite for 1975-76 who was dropped then the…

I guess the reality might reach the fiction. In the 2006 movie "Click" in a scene set around 2015-20, Adam Sandler driver a future Cadillac Sixteen. Picture from IMCDB [www.imcdb.org]

Image of the day :-)

Off-topic and more food on the table, I spotted this article from the Economic Times who mentionned then Toyota might fall to 3rd behind GM and VW. [economictimes.indiatimes.com]

It depends if the economic conditions go worse, maybe we might see the sub-10000$ back despite the CAFE and safety standards, like the Dacia (Renault) Logan aka Nissan Aprio in Mexico.

However, some folks in Quebec thought then "zoom-zoom" wasn't French enough and substitue it with "vroum-vroum" as shown in this old ad.

For some nostalgy ;-)

+1, Fairlane, Falcon, Galaxie, add also LTD and Torino to the list.

The former Chrysler B-bodies (Coronet, Belvedere/Satellite/1975-78 "small Fury") and C-bodies (Polara/Monaco/Royal Monaco/Fury I-II-III/1975-78 Gran Fury) was unibodies.

We got some good French-Canadian ads here once but the actor Martin Matte is a little bit "smug".

Don't forget an optionnal AWD system as well ;-)

What about the 1967 model, especially in Shelby GT-500 incarnation? Picture from [www.imcdb.org]

You're welcome :-) Also Bronco was another name suggested for the 'Stang but both Bronco and Torino find their way to other vehicules. Too bad then they dropped the Torino name for the 1977 model year when the Torino became the "LTD II" especially when the Torino became cool again thanks to its cameo in the tv series…

The original codename was Cougar (and there was some earlier sketches and PR photo showing "Cougar" moniker but they also studied the possibility to name it Torino as well.

Also some earlier PR photos, got a Cougar instead of a horse, picture from [auto.howstuffworks.com] I guess that's close as the "cat-car" or "feline-car" we would get.

I spotted a interesting picture of an earlier Mustang design at [www.motors24.com] Jack Telnack penned an earlier 'Stang sketch with the Cougar moniker.

It could also be interesting to imagine some "what if" scenarios:

+1, The T-Type are overshawdowed by their big brother Grand National.

Comment of the day. :-)

On the other hand, to see what the others (VW, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault) have in their European offerings compared to Honda...