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I heard that they will be making the 04' body style for 2005 along w/ the new retro body style..
can anyone confirm this?
can anyone confirm this?
RedFireGT05 said:I heard that they will be making the 04' body style for 2005 along w/ the new retro body style..
can anyone confirm this?
RICKS said:What 351CJ said is absolutely correct, which means that even though Ford has a track record with the trucks building old and new concurrently, it WON'T happen with Mustang. Another bit of trivia: I toured the old River Rouge plant last June during the 100th anniversary celebration, and the factory worker who was our tour guide stated that the tooling used to produce the floorpan was the SAME tool they had been flogging since the introduction of the Fox platform in 1977!!! He said it was flat wore out, that they could not produce another year's worth of Mustangs if they wanted to, with that tool. As it was, he said that the tool was so worn out, and so far out of typical production tolerence, That each floor had to be hand-fitted and welded-in mostly by hand for the last couple years due to huge variances from floor to floor to floor, causing major headaches down the line trying to maintain tight tolerences and measurements, making it a bitch to get the cars to go together and line-up well as a whole. I thought that was interesting, considering I had a couple pals who had just bought new Machs, and were complaining about how the character lines in the passenger side door didn't line up with the fender worth a $hit, and wondered if that couldn't be attributed to the snowball effect of having a subframe and floor that was "cobbled" together at the start of the production line.
Ah yes, Grashopper, the Fox Mustang WAS introduced in 1979, but you forget my young kung fu master, that the Ford FAIRMONT was introduced in the fall of 1977 as a '78 model. The Fairmont/Futura was the first application of the Fox platform. That's why the running joke on most bowtie websites is that we're all ga-ga over a gussied-up Fairmont. Other Ford cars that were built on the Fox platform? It may shock you how many Ford tanks shared underpinning with Mustang:Interesting info, Ricks, although the Fox Mustang was introduced in 1979 (although they could have been making prototypes as early as late 1977).
RICKS said:Ah yes, Grashopper, the Fox Mustang WAS introduced in 1979, but you forget my young kung fu master, that the Ford FAIRMONT was introduced in the fall of 1977 as a '78 model. The Fairmont/Futura was the first application of the Fox platform. That's why the running joke on most bowtie websites is that we're all ga-ga over a gussied-up Fairmont. Other Ford cars that were built on the Fox platform? It may shock you how many Ford tanks shared underpinning with Mustang:
FORD FAIRMONT 1978-83 (105.5" wheelbase; 2-door coupe, 2-door sedan, 4-door, station wagon)
MERCURY ZEPHYR 1978-83 (105.5" wheelbase; Z-7 coupe, Villager wagon)
FORD MUSTANG 1979-93 (100.4" wheelbase; 3-door hatchback, 2-door coupe)
MERCURY CAPRI 1979-86 (100.4" wheelbase; 3-door hatchback, 2-door coupe)
FORD GRANADA 1980-82 (105.5" wheelbase; 2-door, 4-door, station wagon)
MERCURY COUGAR 1980-82 (108.2" wheelbase; 2-door, 4-door, station wagon)
FORD THUNDERBIRD 1980-82 (108.2" wheelbase; 2-door only)
FORD LTD 1983-86 (105.6" wheelbase; 4-door, station wagon)
MERCURY MARQUIS 1983-86 (105.6" wheelbase; 4-door, station wagon)
LINCOLN CONTINENTAL 1982-87 (112.0" wheelbase; 4-door only)
MERCURY COUGAR 1983-86 (103.8" wheelbase; 2-door only)
FORD THUNDERBIRD 1983-86 (103.8" wheelbase; 2-door only)
LINCOLN MARK VII 1984-92 (112.0" wheelbase; 2-door only)
MERCURY COUGAR 1987-88 (104.2" wheelbase; 2-door only)
FORD THUNDERBIRD 1987-88 (104.2" wheelbase; 2-door only)
In 1994, the fox platform was highly modified and enhanced, renamed "SN-95", but the same old fox floor remained virtually unchanged.