Please stop trolling here and go back to the Mustang II Boards with your questionsble aesthetics and warped view of history. I was polite before, but Mike is right. You need to get a better grasp on what was available elsewhere in 79, because without the Fox Mustangs and SN-95, Ford would not be making 400+ hp 5.0 Mustangs today. There would be no need for Hemis, Hellcats, Camaros or Vette’s either. Things were grim in the industry, and even the 2.3 and a manual was fun compared to most junk econoboxes.
No, no no dude..they're not trolling..theyre trying to convince me that I'm wrong.
A nearly impossible feat.
Firstly, unless you at least 55,...you cannot speak with authority on the current subject... ( whatever that is in this thread).
The mid 70’s was a terrible time in the decade, that only got worse as the years went on. Disco started, almost everybody looked like ass,.. Bell bottom pants, platform shoes, leisure suits made out of polyester, long stupid feathered hair, Mike and greg Brady getting afros even though they were as white as a piece of paper, Long lines to get gas, a 55 mph national interstate speed limits, CJ Mc Call singing songs about truckers, and CB radios...Kiss was popular, and there was even talk about renaming a high school in the midwest Kiss high..Cocaine was just starting to make the rounds as “ the” drug in the clubs...
The Ford engineers,....While Listening to Donna Summer, all sporting their recently added Afro-Perms, wearing 2” platform shoes in their green polyester leisure suits, Stoned Bat sht crazy on Coke after having been up for 3 days straight penned the first rendition of the rehashed Pinto they called the 1974 Mustang II.
Who can blame them for building such a flaming piece of sht? They didn’t know what they were doing....
By the time the late 70’s came along, these guys were so hagged out, all the creative talent they had left had dwindled to rehashing long dead 60’s era namesakes....Since they were hobbled by the “energy crisis” and couldn’t possibly get anything resembling a muscle car from the days gone by, the solution was to cover the car in decals......Mach 1, Cobra II,....the more decals, the faster it looked....ending in the ultimate Joke of the late 70’s....the 1978 King Cobra.
Now...How can you blame those Coked up, Disco dancing, fake Afro headed engineers at ford for coming up with a turd like a Mustang II?
It took a guy Ford had pidgeon holed to Ford Europe to save ford USA from just disco dancing themselves to death. Jack Telnack came up with the Fox Platform and brought Ford back from the brink....the longest running version of any mustang to this date.