Ford's new 2014 Mustang will celebrate Mustang's 50th anniversary 09/21/2011
Ford will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of its iconic Mustang in 2014, and the company will debut a redesigned car for the occasion. The current generation of Mustangs are designed to be reminiscent of past generations, but the 2014 model will be anything but traditional. Ford's design chief, J Mays recently revealed a bit about the new car in an interview with Automotive news.
"The challenge or the opportunity for 2014 with a 50th-anniversary car is to not just look back over your shoulder, but to try to win all of the Mustang faithful yet to bring the brand forward as well," Mays told the publication. "It has to look like a Mustang, but you go down a list of things that might or might not be necessary to make the car look like a Mustang."
The first Mustang rolled off the production line on March 9, 1964 and by the end of the first day that the car went on sale, Ford sold 22,000 of the new car, according to Motor Trend. Nearly 1.3 million cars were built in the first three years of production, and the nationwide love of Mustangs has continued to grow.
Motor Trend also reports that the new 2014 model will be made available in Europe for the first time ever, and the Ford's European and Australian teams will be helping out with the design of the new car. Not only will the 2014 Mustang take the classic American sports car from an old look to a new one, but it will bring the vehicle to a global platform as well.