Hate Retro Cars, Love Camaro

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Aug 10, 2008 | 06:00 PM

#31

8Banger

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Originally Posted by Pruettfan

The reporter asked about the car being retro and Jay was very clear in his opinion that it was a modern car with design aspects that were complementary to the history of the car. He named the Challanger and Mustang as straightforward retro cars.

Bingo! I dare someone to say Jay doesn't know his cars. Of course I'm sure
there are many up here that think they know way more than him.

Key word being think.

Aug 10, 2008 | 06:30 PM

#32

bossco

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Originally Posted by Pruettfan

Lastly, why do I hate retro cars? Simple what will the next step be in the design? For Mustang I have to wonder are they going to build a Mustang II next? .

You do know when Ford made a significant departure from the tradtional Mustang styling (not talking about the IIs - they did follow the trend) with the Fox body car only a certain subset of Mustang guys prefer the car. Yes Fox cars are popular, but only with the crowd that grew up with them, when Ford went with the S-197 all the commercials that featured the cars history showed the 64-66, 67-68, 69-70, 71-73, 74-70, 94-98, 99-04 Mustangs - fox cars, apprently not a Mustang.

Ask the majority of Mustang guys what a real Mustang is and they will tell you a fox car was more or less just a V8 EXP.

Last edited by bossco; Aug 10, 2008 at 06:32 PM.