Old Time Cars Are Not Forgotten

Way to go, @Ford. Blow up your iconic brand by releasing what is essentially a grocery-getter midscale crossover electric SUV.

This is the New Coke of Mustangs.

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— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) November 18, 2019

Eh, it's not that bad.  Most of the complaints are over this, which is a fair complaint, indeed:

Just gonna take awhile to get used to electric cars, is all.  ("OK, Boomer!")

As far as I'm concerned the Mustang brand has been dead since 1969, although I did own a late '70's Mustang (Full disclosure).  That was after the Mustang morphed into the hideous Mach I (surely the stuff of nightmares):

Which was so bad Ford resurrected the Mustang as the "Mustang II" before dropping the Roman numerals and restyling the Mustang to the size and style more familiar today.  Mine was, like Bullitt's, a fastback.  But it had an automatic transmission and, IIRC, a big six, not a V8.  Gas prices were up, muscle cars were down.  

Still, none of them are the original Mustang.  The Lovely Wife, when we married, had the true original:  1964 1/2 (look it up!).  Complete with three speed and a Hurst floor shifter (the "Hurst on the floor" Springsteen sings about.  Another Boomer thing, now.)  Sadly, it was a straight six, not the 298 V8.  Knew a guy in high school with that one (his was a '65 or '66).  Saw him smoke the tires right off of it once, at a stop light.  Eh, he was a "trust fund baby," and he got new tires painlessly.  Still a good guy, a good friend; and the Mustang was a good car.

Once upon a time.  Now?  As I say, after the Mach I, Ford can't do any more harm to the label.