stangr5oh
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No, I can not seem to find any archived articles of it as it was printed in a magazine. But here is what the jest of it said as I was able to find an article about how the SN95 came about and the 3 renderings of the sculptor models. But in the article as I recall it, it had a few more renderings that brought forth the current look of the mustang. I will keep looking for the other renderings that brought the idea of the modern mustangs.
The 1994 model year marked the beginning of the fourth generation of Mustangs. After 15 years of the same “Fox”
platform, enthusiasts were ready for an all-new look and feel. And Ford was anxious to give them what they wanted. “It was a
do-or-die situation for Mustang at the time,” recalled William Boddie, then Ford’s program manager for small- and mid-size
cars. “A lot of people at Ford thought we wouldn’t make enough money with the Mustang, and they thought we ought to kill it.
This was going to be our chance to prove them wrong.” Boddie says the team’s vision was clear. “Our goal was to create a
vehicle that would be recognizable as a Mustang, even without the badging,” he said. “It had to have traditional Mustang attributes, such as the three-box design, the long hood and the cockpit-like interior. And it had to symbolize power.”
With little time – 36 months – and limited resources, Boddie organized a team of 200 enthusiasts from various areas within
the company. Since space at Ford was limited at the time, the team met in an off-site warehouse. “We created a competition
within the design studio to see who could come up with a car that best represented the image of the Mustang,” said Boddie.
“The idea was to let the creative people see what they could do to maintain the pony car heritage yet still make the vehicle a bit
more modern.”
The designers came up with three different mock-ups, and they nicknamed them “Bruce Jenner” (after the Olympic athlete),
“Rambo” (after Sylvester Stallone’s movie character) and “Arnold Schwarzenegger” (after the muscular movie star, now
governor of California. “Rambo was the most far out design. It looked like a snorting bull,” checked Boddie. “The ‘Bruce
Jenner’ Mustang was the most refined, and the ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’ model was in between the two. That was the one that
we chose.”
All three included what execs pegged as must haves for the new model: side scoops, triple-element taillights, and the recognizable notchback design.The most pedestrian of the bunch, the Bruce Jenner (below), didn’t do much to excite those included in secret consumer test-clinics nor the higher-ups at the Blue Oval. Project manager Bud Magaldi remembers the design’s critiques as “too smooth, too clean and friendly,” which isn’t exactly a good jumping-off point for a hard-charging muscle car. Remember, this was Ford’s aero age that brought forth the Taurus fishbowl.
This is the Bruce Jenner sculted model:
On the flipside, the Rambo (below), which featured snarling front effects, took the design too far, though we’ve taken a strange liking to it. Magaldi described the car as a “Batmobile-type thing, very aggressive and gutsy and dramatic like a Stealth Bomber.”
This is the Rambo sculted model:
That left it up to the middle-of-the-road Schwarzenegger concept (below) to make the production cut, with only minor changes made. Odd, we don’t think Arnold has ever been thought of as middle-of-the-road.
This is the Scwarzenegger model:
The design they chose was reminiscent of the vintage pony cars, yet modern enough to suit the changing tastes of auto
enthusiasts. Its code name was SN95, and though its platform was a derivative of the Fox introduced in 1979, there was little
resemblance between the two; 1,330 of the vehicle’s 1,850 parts had been changed. The galloping pony emblem returned to the
Bullitt – made its debut in 2001. The vehicle was an instant success, spawning special Bullitt fan clubs across the country.
The 2003 model year was a memorable one for Ford performance fans, as the Mach 1 nameplate returned to the Mustang
lineup, complete with a hot V-8 and functional “Shaker” hood scoop. But the era’s benchmark car was SVT’s newest Mustang
Cobra. Nicknamed “The Terminator,” this new Mustang performance flagship featured a beefed-up twin-cam 4.6-liter V-8
topped with a supercharger to produce a torque-laden 390 horsepower. It left an exclamation point on the fourth-generation
Mustang, ensuring that the SN95 platform would go out in a blaze of glory.
84Ttop, I did not mean to interupt your thread with this stuff.
The 1994 model year marked the beginning of the fourth generation of Mustangs. After 15 years of the same “Fox”
platform, enthusiasts were ready for an all-new look and feel. And Ford was anxious to give them what they wanted. “It was a
do-or-die situation for Mustang at the time,” recalled William Boddie, then Ford’s program manager for small- and mid-size
cars. “A lot of people at Ford thought we wouldn’t make enough money with the Mustang, and they thought we ought to kill it.
This was going to be our chance to prove them wrong.” Boddie says the team’s vision was clear. “Our goal was to create a
vehicle that would be recognizable as a Mustang, even without the badging,” he said. “It had to have traditional Mustang attributes, such as the three-box design, the long hood and the cockpit-like interior. And it had to symbolize power.”
With little time – 36 months – and limited resources, Boddie organized a team of 200 enthusiasts from various areas within
the company. Since space at Ford was limited at the time, the team met in an off-site warehouse. “We created a competition
within the design studio to see who could come up with a car that best represented the image of the Mustang,” said Boddie.
“The idea was to let the creative people see what they could do to maintain the pony car heritage yet still make the vehicle a bit
more modern.”
The designers came up with three different mock-ups, and they nicknamed them “Bruce Jenner” (after the Olympic athlete),
“Rambo” (after Sylvester Stallone’s movie character) and “Arnold Schwarzenegger” (after the muscular movie star, now
governor of California. “Rambo was the most far out design. It looked like a snorting bull,” checked Boddie. “The ‘Bruce
Jenner’ Mustang was the most refined, and the ‘Arnold Schwarzenegger’ model was in between the two. That was the one that
we chose.”
All three included what execs pegged as must haves for the new model: side scoops, triple-element taillights, and the recognizable notchback design.The most pedestrian of the bunch, the Bruce Jenner (below), didn’t do much to excite those included in secret consumer test-clinics nor the higher-ups at the Blue Oval. Project manager Bud Magaldi remembers the design’s critiques as “too smooth, too clean and friendly,” which isn’t exactly a good jumping-off point for a hard-charging muscle car. Remember, this was Ford’s aero age that brought forth the Taurus fishbowl.
This is the Bruce Jenner sculted model:
On the flipside, the Rambo (below), which featured snarling front effects, took the design too far, though we’ve taken a strange liking to it. Magaldi described the car as a “Batmobile-type thing, very aggressive and gutsy and dramatic like a Stealth Bomber.”
This is the Rambo sculted model:
That left it up to the middle-of-the-road Schwarzenegger concept (below) to make the production cut, with only minor changes made. Odd, we don’t think Arnold has ever been thought of as middle-of-the-road.
This is the Scwarzenegger model:
The design they chose was reminiscent of the vintage pony cars, yet modern enough to suit the changing tastes of auto
enthusiasts. Its code name was SN95, and though its platform was a derivative of the Fox introduced in 1979, there was little
resemblance between the two; 1,330 of the vehicle’s 1,850 parts had been changed. The galloping pony emblem returned to the
Bullitt – made its debut in 2001. The vehicle was an instant success, spawning special Bullitt fan clubs across the country.
The 2003 model year was a memorable one for Ford performance fans, as the Mach 1 nameplate returned to the Mustang
lineup, complete with a hot V-8 and functional “Shaker” hood scoop. But the era’s benchmark car was SVT’s newest Mustang
Cobra. Nicknamed “The Terminator,” this new Mustang performance flagship featured a beefed-up twin-cam 4.6-liter V-8
topped with a supercharger to produce a torque-laden 390 horsepower. It left an exclamation point on the fourth-generation
Mustang, ensuring that the SN95 platform would go out in a blaze of glory.
84Ttop, I did not mean to interupt your thread with this stuff.