Why did ford change the body style?

OrangeMustangGt

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i looked at my car today, and upon seeing its beauty, i asked myself..."why did ford go and change the best looking run of mustangs"? can anyone help me please

 

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styles change, the sn95 probably had a break in period too for the older guys. for me, it was one of the first mustangs i noticed just because of my age and that's why i like em. progressive nature of the car company?

 

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I think maybe they got drunk...and did it unintentionally....

 

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Is your car unpainted still?

 

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NO!....i bought some spraypaint duh....however even with many colors, it brings a tear to my eye. wait maby thats just the polished 18's blinging my eye

 

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Because you have to change the body style after awhile no matter how good it is. How dumb would it be to be buying brand new Mustangs in 2002 that were teh same body style as in 94.

 

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I see more "new edge" cars than the SN-95 style, leading me to believe that look is more popular, which answers the question!!! I wonder why they changed the fox bodies, LOL!!!

 

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Money

 

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well i also think you see more "new edge" mustangs cuz of the age of our cars...hell even the 98's are 7 years old, some people just want nothing to do with an older car. Personally, I still like the looks of mine more so than even the 05 (waitin for a flame for that...), but yea the company always needs to change after a few years to liven things up, and maybe stir up new buyers who weren't crazy about whatever the previous model was.

Basically, I think the newest mustang I'd realistically buy is a 98 Cobra. I just couldn't part with this body style....even the 03-04 Cobras are getting to the point where it's almost like "you've seen one...you've seen em all" with the exception of a few guys who do something original to them. There are like 4 03-04 snakes around here, and the 4 or so SN-95 cobras around here still interest me more. And no I don't think I can beat an 03-04, before somebody says something like "yea you like yours better, but an 03-04 can hand yer ass to ya youngin! OWNED!!!" so yea, save that

 

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our body style saved the mustang... if some of you remember about 15 years ago when ford wanted to replace the mustang with the fricking probe! lol

and then in 94 they came out with our cars and sold 150,000,000,000,000,000 v-6's to the masses and kept the pony car alive.

it's all about sales. A car company always has the next model lined up - just waiting for the sales of that body style to hit a certain low.

 

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Cauf Cauf, i sell these things and i think i know why cause all the men at Ford where getting slapped around by there wifes cause none of them like the old body and they do love the new ones i work for a ford dealer and every time i have some one look at one its eather for there wife gf and or there picing it up to get a girl cause girls like them thats why ford went there lol. Cause they were all on short chains

 

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I look at it this way the 05 is how ford should have kept the look going. After 1970 the mustang started going the wrong direction. If it works for porche I.E. the 911 it would have worked for ford. The 911 has not changed much since it's inception it just evolved over the years when you saw one you knew it was a 911 not necissarily the case with a mustang.

 

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the 911 is a supercar and cost a hell of alot more. and they don't sell them to the average person on a buget. they only get sold to people with a really good income, and use that as their 2nd or 3rd car. its not for daily drivers.

the harder body lines of the new-edge and the 05s are what more people desire. That is why the fox was so popular when it came out. after so many years it was tired. They sold tons of them after the big Mustang II flop. it was the current trend of the market, smaller cars, more fuel effient. granted a 5.0 isn't really efficient, but regardless.

and back to the 911 coment. if that was true we would all be driving 65s around today. just with electronic engines but the same body lines.

look at the camaro, they died becuase they were getting too rounded and nobody liked them except for a small number of people. I bet when they come back they will be more squared off and retro styled. look at dodge coming back with the Hemi, the GTO and now the charger. its all the current trend in the public.

it all goes back to marketing. they test the audience, and when the audience says they like harder body lines and more squared off everything, that is what they get. the success of the GT in the retro styling was a big que to Ford to remake the mustang and toss in the retro styling. the core buyers of the new 05s will be the aging baby boomers who remember their parents owning the first mustangs and them inheriting them as their first car.

if you took the time to read this post, good job.

 

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slytherin

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Nice volley. after reading what you said I agree with that, porche is a niche(sp) market where ford is playing to a much larger audience.

 

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To make ours more valuable.

 

OL' WHITEY

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I don't know why Ford changed the best looking run of mustangs. But they did...in 1994! Fox bodies RULE!!! Okay, I'll go back to the 5.0 forum and leave you sn95ers alone now. Sorry.

 

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ProKiller said:

look at the camaro, they died becuase they were getting too rounded and nobody liked them except for a small number of people. I bet when they come back they will be more squared off and retro styled. look at dodge coming back with the Hemi, the GTO and now the charger. its all the current trend in the public.

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The Camaro died because it was catching up in performance with the Corvette. GM didn't want two cars with the same performance with one being half the price of the other.

 

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Ford softened up the Mustang's styling in 1994 in part because they wanted to attract more female customers. Polling and focus groups showed a lot of women were turned off by the 79-93 styling - think about it, when was the last time you saw a sorority girl driving around in a Fox Mustang - which prompted the change.

Fast forward to the 94-98 era, and a lot of the male Mustang customers who liked the Fox Mustang complained to Ford that the 94-98 was too "feminine" and "soft" in its look. Some of it was just the bitching that comes with any change (see the minority whiners about the 05 styling) but some of it was also genuine. So the 99-04 New Edge styling redesign was in essence trying to find a good compromise between the preferences of men in general and women in general about how "mean" a sporty car should look.

The 05 change is because retro was the In thing in design at the time, and the designers wanted to start with a completely different slate. Not fresh, obviously, but unmistakeable.

 

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Dtowncats said:

The Camaro died because it was catching up in performance with the Corvette. GM didn't want two cars with the same performance with one being half the price of the other.

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The F-body died because GM's costs in producing two LS1 vehicles (Camaro and Firebird) with relatively poor sales (to the Mustang) was just not profitable.

If the Camaro/Firebird had been selling well, GM would probably have killed just one of them and boosted production of the other to increase the economy of scale.

If costs producing them had been lower, they probably would have kept them even in sales were down.

 

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The other reason I heard(I think it was even in a chevy mag to boot) for the death of the F-body was how they didn't sell them compared to ford selling mustangs you go into a ford dealership and ask to see a stang and by god you would leave in a mustang, do that in a GM dealership and they would downgrade you to a cavilier(sp).