Ford Mustang - predatory "charm" of America

2024 Author: Erin Ralphs | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-19 11:42

Probably, there is not a single person who would not watch a remake of the creation of the Polish director and racer Henry Galicki "Gone in 60 Seconds", which was shot by Dominik Sena in 2000, leaving the plot and the title the same. In all its splendor, we see the game of famous actors and fantastic, predatory and super-powerful machines. It is here that the thread of the difficult relationship between Memphis, in the role of which Nicolas Cage harmoniously got used to, and the passionate Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500, nicknamed "Eleanor", runs through the entire film. It was from that time that many fans of "muscle cars", or, as they say in America, muscle car, began a love fever in relation to this predatory and at the same time attractive car. An army of thousands of fans wanted, like Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, to reach out to this aggressive apparatus and say: “My charm!”.

The Ford Mustang was created on the platform of the Ford Falcone family sedan. The motivation of the Ford Corporation is simple and understandable - to keep up with the competitors who released the Chevrolet Camaro series to the world. The birth of the first generation of Mustangs in 1964 was surrounded by a huge marketing campaign that allowed the sale of the Ford Mustang, the characteristics of whichfully met the requirements of sports cars of the pony car class, more than a million hands. Later, this "pony car", equipped with all the necessary sports "gadgets", but not a very powerful engine, will move into the category of "muscle cars", combining hundreds of horses under its hood.

When purchasing this car, the client could choose not only a sedan or coupe body, but also additional equipment to his taste. It is thanks to an individual approach to working with a client that the popularity of the Ford Mustang car has reached unprecedented heights. At the same time, one should not belittle the characteristics of this sports car: a low landing and a predatory long hood, under which a six- or eight-cylinder engine was hidden, and a sharply felled rear end - this is what the Americans fell into euphoria from. And if you consider that since 1965 it was possible to design a car in one of 34 colors, then it becomes clear why the Ford Mustang was much more popular at that time than the Camaro.

After some time together with Caroll Shelby concern Ford releases a new Mustang model - Shelby GT350. The hood of this handsome man hid under him the power of 306 horses. And after installing the supercharger, the agility of the car increased to 430 hp. It was this model that became the mother of Eleanor, which was released in 1967. Having played with the engine, the manufacturers launched the Ford Mustang Shelby GT 500 off the assembly line with 8 different types of engines, the power of which varied from 110 hp. up to 355 hp It was then that a hydromechanical transmission appeared, which made it possible to change gears.both mechanically and automatically.

A year later, this formidable machine is replaced by its brother, which has a Cobra engine under the hood with a special air intake system. It was this model that gained immense popularity and was remembered by connoisseurs as the Ford Mustang Cobra.

The legendary car that turned history on the Forbes list, the "pony car", which later became one of the best "muscle cars" in the world, is the Ford Mustang, which captivates the hearts of millions to this day.