Mercury’s Mustang
It would seem to be an impossible ask - take the Mustang, Ford’s hot new genre-defining, all-American pony car, and kick it upmarket to make it a Mercury. It had to have the Thunderbird luxury-car feel on a Mustang-size platform; it had to elevate itself above the street-racing fray with added class and poise; it needed what Americans hilariously thought was a European feel; it had to be a sporty car the whole family could enjoy… and it
