Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2014 9:52 am
You guys saying it doesn't look like a Mustang are cracking me up. Have you not seen the '13 model? This car is like a slightly more smoothed and aerodynamic version of the '13, which is just a more aerodynamic version of the '05, which is where the whole retro style came from. This new car looks so much like it could be a futuristic version of a '69 fastback, you'd have to be blind to not know it looks like a Mustang. It's still loaded with retro styling.
'05
2010, which to me looks even more retro than the '05. I always thought the '05 was too sedate looking and way too vanilla. It was a car full of "styling cues" but had no real identity of its own. The '10 styling change had more attitude and looked more aggressive. The Mustang has always had that "pissed off" look, and the '05 never had that, so the '10 to me was a huge improvement.
Now, the '15, I will say I feel they went way overboard with the front end and those giant scoops, though I do like it, I feel it's a bit too outgoing for a "base model" front end. Something that outgoing should be a Cobra front end or something like that, and it was too much of a leap forward from the '10 front end. The rest though, if you can't see how it's a natural progression from the previous models, you need your eyes checked.
Now, lets look at a '69 GT. Obviously it's not going to look just like a '69, and it shouldn't, it's 45 years newer, but if you look at the '69 and then look at what they did with the '05 and look at each year progression, there is still a lot of '69 in the new '15. There's a few things I don't like and a few things I would have done differently, but overall I'm impressed with how fresh and modern this new car looks, while somehow still having so much retro styling to it and keeping that pony car style. Just wait till Ford throws some big fog lights in the grill, which you know they or the aftermarket will do, and it'll be even more retro looking.
The one thing I think they really screwed up on, was doing away with the B pillar that made reference to the '65/Shelby quarter glass. That gives the whole side window area one big opening, which I think really throws you off from what you're used to seeing in the previous models and is a big part of the Mustang styling. I think that's one of the big reasons people keep comparing this car to Aston Martin (aside from the obvious grill shape similarity).
LOL, sorry to go off on a tangent. Mustangs are one of the few things I'm even more passionate about than my knives :D
'05
2010, which to me looks even more retro than the '05. I always thought the '05 was too sedate looking and way too vanilla. It was a car full of "styling cues" but had no real identity of its own. The '10 styling change had more attitude and looked more aggressive. The Mustang has always had that "pissed off" look, and the '05 never had that, so the '10 to me was a huge improvement.
Now, the '15, I will say I feel they went way overboard with the front end and those giant scoops, though I do like it, I feel it's a bit too outgoing for a "base model" front end. Something that outgoing should be a Cobra front end or something like that, and it was too much of a leap forward from the '10 front end. The rest though, if you can't see how it's a natural progression from the previous models, you need your eyes checked.
Now, lets look at a '69 GT. Obviously it's not going to look just like a '69, and it shouldn't, it's 45 years newer, but if you look at the '69 and then look at what they did with the '05 and look at each year progression, there is still a lot of '69 in the new '15. There's a few things I don't like and a few things I would have done differently, but overall I'm impressed with how fresh and modern this new car looks, while somehow still having so much retro styling to it and keeping that pony car style. Just wait till Ford throws some big fog lights in the grill, which you know they or the aftermarket will do, and it'll be even more retro looking.
The one thing I think they really screwed up on, was doing away with the B pillar that made reference to the '65/Shelby quarter glass. That gives the whole side window area one big opening, which I think really throws you off from what you're used to seeing in the previous models and is a big part of the Mustang styling. I think that's one of the big reasons people keep comparing this car to Aston Martin (aside from the obvious grill shape similarity).
LOL, sorry to go off on a tangent. Mustangs are one of the few things I'm even more passionate about than my knives :D
