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Written by Tom Harrison
You"ll have heard this factoid before, but we"ll say it again back in the mid-Sixties it took Ford less than two years to sell a million Mustangs. It wasn"t especially advanced, but it was good-looking, fast, cheap and practical enough to capture middle America"s imagination.Ford quite rightly deduced that such a car would do well in across the pond too, so just a few months after the Mustang"s April 1964 launch it greenlit Project Colt kick-starting the development of a proper two-door coupe tailored to the most peculiar tastes of us Europeans. Images: Mark Fagelson
Date written: 18 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5853
You"ll have heard this factoid before, but we"ll say it again back in the mid-Sixties it took Ford less than two years to sell a million Mustangs. It wasn"t especially advanced, but it was good-looking, fast, cheap and practical enough to capture middle America"s imagination.Ford quite rightly deduced that such a car would do well in across the pond too, so just a few months after the Mustang"s April 1964 launch it greenlit Project Colt kick-starting the development of a proper two-door coupe tailored to the most peculiar tastes of us Europeans. Images: Mark Fagelson
Date written: 18 Nov 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5853
