Mustang 4 door?!?!?! WTF?

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They have had bad ideas like that before.
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I never thought I'd have a reason to completely seperate myself from anything "Mustang", but this certainly qualifies. If this happens, the name is tarnished and I'm selling.

It's a horrible idea naming it that. I thought they'd be smarter, but then again....
 
Yeah no way should they do this!! Bring the Falcon from Australia over and give it a decent engine and I would be tempted to buy one. Put the Mustang logo on a four door or wagon and you bastardize the Mustang name and forget me ever buying one. The simple fact that a concept may exist is blashemy.

FORD !!!! As one of your biggest supporters!! Don't do it!!!
 
Not sure how making a 4-door or wagon affects anything for us 2-door lovers. Now if they started changing around the powerplant and performance to better fit with a "family" car, then we have a problem, but I don't see Ford doing that. They're spending way too much money and effort now creating a million different versions of the Mustang GT to appeal to mod lovers, I don't see them downgrading to fit a "family" model except for maybe changing the body styling.

I wouldn't buy it as a 4-door or wagon, but I'd still love to have a 05+ stang....and here's why....

They look better, have more power, and kick ass! So flame me now!
 
This must be a joke, Would chevy make a 4 door vette?

No, but it has been done before...

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If Ford produces a 4 door Mustang I will probably just quit.

What a pathetic idea, even if it is just a design study. This is worse than suing the aftermarket.

If Ford so desperately wants a 4 door V8 why not follow GM's Holden Monaro copy paste idea an ship the Falcon XR8 over here...

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5.4 V8 with 4 doors... Sans the Mustang name...



This is not a good idea.

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This is even worse...
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I think Ford should just skip the 4 door idea, and go straight to 6 door!

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Seems like an equally obscene move. :nonono:



Sedans just never look right...

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http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/gossip/pony-sedan-ford-considers-expansion-of-mustang-line-221450.php

Buckster said:
They finally get something right and they just have to **** with it.

danio3834 said:
No NO NO, Wrong wrong wrong, this is bad.

If they wanna make a cool rwd sedan, more power to them, but DON'T call it a Mustang!

gotsmart said:
So Ford looks at Chrysler bastardizing the Charger nameplate and decides they can do the same with Mustang? Bad move. Adding a sedan and wagon would dilute the Mustang brand and make it meaningless, pissing off loyal pony-car fans in the process. Surely they have enough good brands in the vault that they can pull from the archives?

I think using the Falcon name would make more sense, since that was the vehicle the original Mustang was derived from. But if they slap the Mustang badge on anything with more than two doors (a fastback hatch notwithstanding), they're digging their own grave (even deeper).

Miscellanea said:
Did you see that? It's the last speck of light you'll see from this Supergiant about to implode into a blackhole. Ford is so much worse off than I could ever dream of if this is what they have to do to get a decent selling four door sedan. A collapse is imminent.


JRX said:
I think Ford needs more or better drugs...

ledwig said:
In the US market this would only serve to dilute said brand cashet (Charger). It might make sense to do it for export but call it something else here, like how the Jeep Liberty is branded as a Cherokee in Europe.

Fairlane? Falcon?

David Thomas said:
Um...yeah this is just stupid. This was probably one of a hundred such meetings. From what I hear Ford following GM's move of importing their Aussie RWD sedans is much more likely than this.

Calling it a Falcon or Fairlane (since that name is not being used ont eh people mover anymore) would be fine. But why muck it up with the pony? Plus those Gillette Fusion grilles look really good on almost anything.

scotte said:
If they call it Falcon, Fairlane, Galaxie, or Torino (but NOT "Gran Torino") , that might work, IMHO.

But, as someone who's had only Mustangs in his garage the last 20 years, a 4-door "Mustang" will send me running for a Camaro or Challenger ASAP, if not sooner.

It's a wonder that the Enlightened Ones at the Glass House who thought this up didn't call it "Edsel"...beccause that's a 4-door Mustang would be another one of (&, IMO, it would kill The Ford Motor Company ).

Xedos6 said:
Think hard now Ford, don't you remember doing something similar once before? Was it the Thunderbird Sedan? How'd that work out? Let's see, Thunderbird withered away to a gradual death that even the most retro of retro styled rebirths couldn't fix.

Would it be too much trouble for Ford to just build an exciting, RWD performance sedan with Mustang styling cues, but call it something different? How little respect does Ford's marketing department have for the customer's intelligence, if they assume that people won't recognize a competent car unless its got a galloping horse on the grille.

Miscellanea said:
To dilute one of the only marques that is keeping the FORD nameplate alive is foolish. Creating a new sedan based off the underpinnings of the Mustang and giving it a new name is not such a bad idea. Lord knows Ford could use a performance sedan, but the rendering above with 4 doors and a pony is just all wrong...all wrong. As a mustang owner I have visions of a Soccer Dad pulling up next to me with kids in tow and throwing some "look, we both drive a Mustang" revs my way. Only, his is a 4 door.

danio3834 said:
There is no debate. Mustang is either coupe or convertible, fastback or notchback. No 4 doors, it ruins all creditability in by books. If you wanna haul 5 people around in your Mustang, tell them to suck it up and scrunch in or buy a Crown Vic.

4-door Wrangler DID dilute the name, pointless...

silversurfer said:
When I saw this I just could not believe it. Ford, please don't do this. It would be a foolish move. To try to "copy" the Dodge Charger path is simply more evidence that no one at Ford "gets it". How hard could it be to bring back another name and make a kick ass rear wheel drive sedan. How about the Falcon? As for the Mustang sedan, please Ford, for your own good, don't do this.

wohho said:
At some point I should prepare a proper rant towards the idiotocracy that runs Ford, but in the meantime, pointing out that this is grasping at straws in barely sport. To me, this sounds like a rumor born in the autojourno blogotubes. If it's even marginally based in reality, it's indicative of the systemic issues in the Ford world.

TPSreports said:
I think they should come out with a Mustang Minivan, a Mustang SUV, a Mustang crossover, and maybe a Lincoln version called the Lincoln MSG.

ghiaguy said:
Does anyone remember the 4 door Thunderbird? It was a sales hit for one year and then the TBird descended into oblivion. Great Ioacoca's ghost, this is a bad plan.

scurvyman said:
Good luck getting the same kinds of people who like Mustangs to continue to hold that opinion as soon as they hear about the new Ford Mustang mother****ing station wagon.

ledwig said:
The difference is that the Mustang has varied little from its original form for 42 years and has a strong identity as such. The brand has only now fully recovered from the Mustang II, and it wasn't even a 4-door.

Make a sedan from the same platform - great. Make it nearly identical to the Mustang to play off of its brand recognition - fine. But putting the Mustang "running horse" on a sedan is gambling with the only thing of real value that they still have.

detroit9000 said:
Forgive me as I parlay into stereotypes (as you must when you're dealing with brands). You see, it's all about chicks. These are boy cars, and you have to register them with chicks. A Jeep is a Jeep to a chick. It's a Jeep, or it's a Jeep SUV. A mustang is a mustang. A mustang four door? Houston, we have shrinkage. Girls will not care to remember that there are four door mustangs and two door mustangs. There will only be Mustangs, and the brand cache will deplete once they register mustang under the "four door" column. It will be too confusing. It will lose punch. It's like selling Fendi bags at Sam's Club.

Give it a different name. Market it as "inspired by Mustang". Call it a brother. Hell, give it a horse name.

But DON'T dilute the brand.

daga said:
This is one of those articles where even if you only read the title, you immediately think "oh god, no"