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Wow. This Ford Mustang commercial is just .... awful.
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12-20-2020, 07:07 PM
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Oh, to be so green...in an electric SUV deemed to be a Mustang!! Joy to the planet and all that jazz.
You don't really thing the Mustang hard corps accept this car, do you?
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12-20-2020, 07:56 PM
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I still don’t get it. I don’t see a single positive reason for them to call this thing a Mustang.
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12-21-2020, 12:15 AM
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Call it a falcon, Torino, Maverick, Comet, anything but a Mustang...this is nothing more than identity signaling, and hoping to cash in on 56 years of model name success to the young crowd who has never owned one !
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12-21-2020, 01:36 AM
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Remember when Oldsmobile was slapping the "Cutlass" badge on just about anything?
That move could work just as well for Ford.  Best Les
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12-21-2020, 01:53 AM
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Chevy Chase passed peak "watchability" sometime in the early 90's.
As for the car, looks slightly better than that dismal BMW 535 Gran Turismo thing.
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12-21-2020, 02:21 AM
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That. is so pathetic.
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12-21-2020, 02:37 AM
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That thing is as much a Mustang as my Cub Challenger 550 UTV is. The folks in charge of branding/naming... whatever, should have their ass kicked for calling that thing a Mustang.
If they were going to use an existing Ford name, it should have been given the Fusion name and the Fusion cars rebranded.
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12-21-2020, 03:36 AM
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They shoulda just called that abberation a Pinto for nostalgia reasons... yuck
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12-21-2020, 04:43 AM
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Geeze I may never watch Christmas Vacation or drive a Mustang ever again. and that thing is a Mustang? Looks' like the discontinued Honda Crossover thing from a half dozen years ago with out a grill. Why would they call it a Mustang? They could have made up a hundred of goofy electrical gizmo names.
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I agree with the OP 100%. Yuck.
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12-21-2020, 05:04 AM
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Someone at Ford must think that applying the Mustang label to this very-non-Mustang vehicle will help. Whatever, I guess.
As to using a Chevy to promote a vehicle bearing the most popular name in Ford's history ... _
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12-21-2020, 05:07 AM
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May as well call every vehicle coming out of Ford a Mustang now.
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12-21-2020, 05:39 AM
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On the upside, now ANYONE can mow down pedestrians or have their own ticket to fame with an epic Cars n’ Coffee crash YouTube video with a “Mustang” - whether it really is or not!
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12-21-2020, 05:44 AM
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Cousin Eddy would approve
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12-21-2020, 05:47 AM
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Anyone know how much Ford is planning to charge for this car?
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12-21-2020, 05:56 AM
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I love National Lampoon Christmas. On that basis, Ford got me to watch the commercial. Good marketing.
The car: ugly as sin. There is NOTHING that hearkens to the muscle car heritage of the past. Best line in the commercial: "I used to have a Mustang back when cars made sounds". Unfortunately that is the real message here: get over it, sports cars are now just faster appliances with (IMO) no soul. Even Ford is willing to admit it.
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Beyond lame.
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12-21-2020, 06:42 AM
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