The Mustang is the greatest speciality/niche car made today and they will have the entire sub-$30,000 American-made RWD v6/v8 Pony car market to themselves.

The 2005 Mustang is going to be so superior to the existing Mustang in every way (looks are subjective of course) and its going to be way more expensive to produce.

The only reason why Ford is keeping the price increase down on the new 2004 F150 is because of all the truck competion from GM, Dodge, Toyota and etc. Ford is going to offset the increased cost of Manufacturing the F150 by equipping them all with highly profitable options anyway. If Ford didnt have so much competition in the truck sector of the business Im sure the base price of the 2004 F150 would be significanlty higher.

 

150,000+ is sad.

The original Mustang sold 1,200,000 in the first two years of production. Yes, more than the Camry. Yes, more than the Accord.

Nobody has any vision anymore. Give people an entry-level Mustang for $15,995 and you could sell like that again by positioning it against everything from the Civic on up.

But no. Play it safe. Play it boring. Lose market share. Fine.

 

 

Isn't the current base mustang around $15-16k right now? I don't see it selling 1 million cars right now...

i just can't see that many mustangs being sold in this present market..

How many Camry's and Accords get sold now each year? 500k each?

 

You didn't look under their "future cars" section, did you???

 

Is anyone gunna answer me?

 

I believe you need a dealer to order the car, and you can pick it up from the factory (union contract still says you have to pay destination, though).

We do have at least 2 resident car dealers on this site who can answer your question. Make a separate thread with your question as a heading.

That will get their attention.

 

It was a different market then. There are FAR more makes and models and vehicle types splitting up the marketplace now. Those types of volumes are simply not possible anymore. Didn't the best sellers go 500,000 to 1,000,000 units a year back then?

Even the Mustang had dropped to ~479,000 units a year by 1967 and dropped again to 320,000 by 1968. The car was fundamentally the same, even restyled to be better looking and handle big block engines - but suddenly there was competition - barracuda, challenger, camaro, firebird, etc. AMC joined in 1969..mustang volumes dropped that year and continued to drop until the Mustang II due to increasing competition.

And just think - back then Ford didn't have to contend with Nissan, Honda, Toyota, Mazda, Hyundai, Mitsubishi, Subaru, Kia, Daewoo, Acura, Infiniti, Lexus, Mercedes, BMW, Hummer, Saturn, Izuzu, Saab, Porsche, Mini and other companies that either didn't exist then or sold microscopic amounts of cars each year. Nor were there SUV's, SUT's, Minivans, Crossovers, Sport Compacts, and hatchbacks crowding the mix.

....but I do think $22,000 is too much for a base mustang.

 

Ford is planing on producing 200k for 2005.But you know what will happen,
:::NEWS FLASH!!:::

The 2005 Mustang is a FLOP!!!Yes you heard me right,The car "ONLY" sold 100K units,WAY under the 200K target!

Catch my drift?Nothing is certain.

 

I've heard that 200,000 figure from a couple of sources. Once from a Ford rep and just recently from the UAW website. Ford is a relatively conservative company, (like GM)....I don't think they'd be tossing that figure around unless they really believed it.


If the '05 ONLY sells 100,000 units....then something has gone terribly wrong.

 

I can agree with that!1 to 10 how much do u like the 05 Stang?You seem to be searching for info daily.You thinking about it?

 

I'll have to see what the production car looks like....but I'll give the concept an 8.75.

Am I thinking about one? Sure!

But I'd rather have a Camaro. It all depends on how much Red Planet wants me to buy one.

 

:chuckles: I know what you mean about having a Camaro out there for u to buy.Even though I am a Ford man @ heart I still think of this whole Stang/Maro war as this-You cant have a good guy without the bad guy.

 

I'm sure we're gonna get a Camaro....I'm just hoping it's what I want to buy.

 

Yep. And if they price the base model out of reach of it's intended audience and they buy the Focus, what does that do to Mustang sales? They go into the toilet. I remember other companies out pricing their target market (the RX-7 comes to mind) and even though their cars were superior to their former selves, they were dropped like a hot potato. In this economy it will be very risky to sell the base car for $22,000 IMHO.