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2010 Ford Mustang Convertible First Video

Ben Wojdyla — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:45:00 EST

Up on the internet; It's bird, it's a plane, it's total 2010 Ford Mustang day! In marketing parlance, we believe this is called a media blitz, and the latest component following the first images and official details and the video of the Mustang GT hard top is this video of the Mustang GT Convertible. Chop the GT badge off and replace the snorting V8 with a non-Ecoboost V6 and you'll be seeing this car driven ad nauseum by cheerleader types in the not too distant future. This GT version of course just lets the tire smoke blow gently through your hair. Demonstration foolishly not provided in video.

[Youtube.de]

Financiapocalpyse Kills One Drop Top Muscle Car, Delays Another

Wes Siler — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:45:00 EST

Bad news for fans of drop top muscle cars: according to multiple sources, the Dodge Challenger Convertible has been canceled and the Chevy Camaro Convertible delayed for at least a year. Luckily Ford will be showing a 2010 Ford Mustang Convertible at next week’s LA Auto Show, with sales scheduled to start in Spring ’09.

Chrysler and GM’s decisions to respectively kill and delay the ultimate ~~poser’s cars~~, convertible muscle cars were made for the same reason: money. The unibody Challenger is, unbelievably, not originally engineered to lose its top. So engineering a model capable of retaining its rigidity is, due to the financiapocalypse, now considered wayyy to expensive. Speaking to Motor Trend, a company insider described the Challenger convertible as, “dead as a doornail.”

Bankruptcy-imminent GM simply can’t afford to roll out its 2010 Chevy Camaro convertible, even though plans for it were built in from the beginning. It’ll need to wait until the company either secures a massive loan, gets bought by the Chinese or sees significant profits from other products that have already been postponed before it can afford to put the Camaro convertible into production.

All this leaves the 2010 Ford Mustang sitting pretty. In addition to the convertible, they’ll show glass roof and coupe versions in LA, all of which go on sale next year. [via MotorTrend]

2010 Ford Mustang Convoy Caught, Top Dropped

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:00:00 EDT

Seems reader Christine stumbled into a stable of ponies as a group of 2010 Ford Mustangs traveled down what looks to us like Detroit's I-94 freeway. Though these are pretty poor quality camera phone pictures, we did notice three things about the new 'Stang. First, the coupe is wearing some cool wheels which, though distorted, remind us of the same ones the General Lee sports. Second, Ford guys in convertible Mustangs that get caught with the top down on a camera phone give a mean stink-eye. Third, apparently Bill Gates' 20-year-old clone is driving the hard top.

2010 Ford Mustang Spotted Wearing Window Stickers

Ben Wojdyla — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 20:40:00 EDT

Why these 2010 Ford Mustangs are sporting Monroney stickers is beyond us, perhaps they're looking for a little extra attention and want to use the mules as rolling advertisements, but hey, there it is, window sticker. Up front the lights have been slimmed down a bit with a new turn signal treatment and the bumper in the back gets some curves in favor of the current cars more geometric approach. We're not sure if the sticker is accurate, but the convertible is touting an EPA estimated 18 MPG combined cycle and a five star roll over crash rating. We're tempted to call these engineers a bunch of dorks for the window stickers, but that would kind of be like the pot calling the kettle black. Spy reportage below.

We snapped a couple more Mustang prototypes, showing more and more details. Among today's quarry was a blue V6 Coupe, a nicely badged-out V6 convertible, and a close-up of a monroney sticker (which have been attached to several of the latest Mustang prototypes.