he world’s best-selling sports car, the Mustang has been an integral part of the motoring landscape since its big reveal at the New York World’s Fair in 1964. Indeed, the story of the ’Stang is a pretty incredible one: still available as a new model today, it’s America’s best-selling sports car of the last fifty years, and in late 2018 the 10,000,000th Mustang rolled off the production line at the Flat Rock Assembly Plant in Michigan. It’s undeniable that the Mustang is part of the cultural bedrock of America, and the original pony car has always been a pretty diverse offering too; right from its early days you could specify it as a saloon or a convertible, with a racy fastback arriving in the line-up to really tap into teenage drag-race dreams. The model’s fortunes have been a little up-anddown over the generations, with the Fox-body Mustangs of the 1980s and the polarising Mustang II dividing opinion, but on the whole it’s been a
