2010 Ford Mustang Revealed

After what seems like an endless run of teaser pictures, Ford has finally announced the Mustang for 2010 (have a look at the Ford Mustang Micro Site), as both a Coupe and Convertible But it wasn’t on purpose. Oh, no. They cocked-up by revealing a real image on one of their micro-sites and, quite sensibly, decided they may as well get on with, and release the images officially.

The new Mustang is very clearly a Mustang, but with more than a passing resemblance to the more modern American Muscle cars, like the Camaro.

One of the big let-downs of Yank-Tanks has always been the poor interior. With dashboards that look (and feel) as if they’ve been made out of recycled Fairy Liquid bottles, and more shake, rattle and roll than Bill Haley, the interiors were always one of the main reasons us Brits just couldn’t live with the cars. But Ford has promised to change all that, and is boasting ‘World Class Materials and execution’. The pictures look pretty good, but we’ll reserve judgement until we see the car.

Shame is that Ford hasn’t made much effort with the underpinnings, which are pretty much carried over from the old Mustang. Still, I suppose they’re running shy of the Eco-mentalists, and are keeping their heads down by limiting the output.

This does look more like a facelift than a new model, but if the decent interior is as good as it seems then this car could sell well here.

No news yet on whether it will come to the UK. I suppose that rather depends on whether Barack Obama bails Ford out. Otherwise, there may not be a Ford, never mind a Mustang.

Would you buy the Mustang in the UK?