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    1 BAD ASS BOWTIE StangKiller615's Avatar
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    4-Door Mustang Wagon??

    Link: http://www.cnn.com/2006/AUTOS/12/14/...ons/index.html



    NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Would Mustang Sally drive a station wagon? Maybe she'll get the chance.

    The next generation of the Ford Mustang could include some previously unthinkable variants including a four-door sedan and a station wagon, according to a report in the magazine AutoWeek.

    "To a Mustang purist, this is blasphemy," said Bob Gritzinger, AutoWeek's senior editor for news.

    Mustang has become a strong brand name, perhaps even stronger than Ford's famous Blue Oval, the magazine story says.

    Key Fords of the future

    You can measure that by price. Introduced for the 2005 model year, the current version of the Mustang still sells for close to full sticker price, according to Kelley Blue Book's KBB.com Website.

    AutoWeek attributes its story to a "prominent automotive industry consultant familiar with the Ford plan."

    "It's a case of reaching out to the men or women who keenly identify with the Mustang, but for various reasons - whether it be family, recreational or other - need a more versatile car than a coupe," the source is quoted as saying.

    The planned 4-door Mustang may be foreshadowed by a Lincoln sedan to be shown at the upcoming Detroit Auto Show.

    The 4-door Lincoln uses much of the current Mustang's engineering, according to the magazine. The Lincoln car will have independent rear suspension originally developed for the Mustang but scrapped as too expensive.

    The current Mustang has a solid rear axle. But Ford plans for the next-generation Mustang to have a sophisticated independent rear suspension.

    The next-generation Mustang is due to come 2011, according to AutoWeek. It could come out as early as 2009, however, Gritzinger said in an interview.

    That would allow the Mustang to compete more effectively against the new Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger coupes, expected to arrive in late 2008 as 2009 models.

    "It's going to be muscle car heaven in 2008," said Gritzinger.

    The story, including illustrations of what the Mustang sedan might look like, is in the Dec. 18 issue of AutoWeek and on-line at AutoWeek.com.

    Ford executives were not available for comment on the report.

    Other performance coupes have successfully spun off four-door variants despite fans' protests.

    Most recently, the Dodge division of DaimlerChrysler reintroduced the Charger name on a four-door sedan in 2005. Despite grumbling from fans of the original 1960s and '70s muscle car, the Charger sedan has sold well.

    The next generation of General Motors' Chevrolet Impala sedan will share its engineering and some design cues with the new Chevrolet Camaro, various industry news media have reported. That would allow the Impala to benefit from the "family relationship" without actually taking the Camaro name.

    In this case, the two-door coupe and convertible Mustang would continue to be produced, according to the report.

    Brad Bowling, a Mustang expert who has written several books on the car including the Standard Catalog of Mustang, told CNNMoney.com he was not particularly bothered by the idea.

    "For years people have occasionally made their own custom Mustang wagons and that sort of thing," he said.

    Bowling himself recently parted with one of his Mustangs, a 2001 model, because he needed something with more room, he said. He bought a Hemi-powered Dodge Magnum wagon.

    He recognized that not everyone would share his attitude toward the idea of four-door Mustangs.

    "There are going to be two really strong-minded schools of thought on this," Bowling said.

    In the past, attempts to fundamentally alter the Mustang, an iconic American performance car, have been blocked because of outrage by Mustang owners.

    In the 1980s, a plan to bring out a front-wheel-drive Mustang met with so much resistance that the company instead introduced the car as the Ford Probe while keeping the Mustang rear-wheel-drive.

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    looks like the dodge magnum

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    If they do produce this, I wonder how much it will weigh??

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    by far the ugliest car i ve ever seen

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    would that still be a chick magnet, since for whatever reason all mustangs seem to be chick magnets?

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    na not that one

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    i'd take a 600 hp cobra one or something sick like that

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    That will ruin the Mustang heritage forever, and it doesn't bother me a bit!!! LOL

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    Take THAT mustang owners

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    Chevy will read this, move the new camaro date back five years, and release it only as a station wagon model.

    And it will be front wheel drive.

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    Wasn't that called the VEGA???


    it will NEVER happen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by joerockhead View Post
    Wasn't that called the VEGA???


    it will NEVER happen.
    nah, only thing that i think could be considered close would be the chevy nomad, actually pretty cool in its own way, i'd love to see a street driven single digit nomad lol i thought rumor had it too that the nomad was going to go back in to production?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StangKiller615 View Post
    If they do produce this, I wonder how much it will weigh??
    one M I L L I O N Lbs

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    damn, it still looks like shit. still. wow.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 94z28l View Post
    nah, only thing that i think could be considered close would be the chevy nomad, actually pretty cool in its own way, i'd love to see a street driven single digit nomad lol i thought rumor had it too that the nomad was going to go back in to production?

    Nomad was based on the Chevy Sedan, not a sport coupe.
    And yes, it was a sweet looking ride

    And to me, today's Nomad is the Dodge Magnum.
    And I own a Magnum, cuz I like the look.

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    I think Lawdog has the first one ever built. They dropped an '03 Cobra motor in it and use it as a paddy wagon in OK.

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    Quote Originally Posted by joerockhead View Post
    Nomad was based on the Chevy Sedan, not a sport coupe.
    And yes, it was a sweet looking ride

    And to me, today's Nomad is the Dodge Magnum.
    And I own a Magnum, cuz I like the look.
    good call, and yeah the magnum pretty much is todays nomad, i'd like to see the nomad come back in a good looking sport wagon

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