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Originally Posted by billyk
We all know that RWD sports cars are a market niche - nothing new there. We also know that within that category there are the "blaze in a straight line" muscle cars, and "rip up the turns" machines for two different types of drivers. So I am never settled when they get tossed in the same bin, as in this article.
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You can blame that in large part on Ford and the Mustang market. Mustang buyers are never satisfied. They want a cheap, fast muscle car but get butt-hurt when something can outmaneuver them in turns. So Ford has been trying to make a track car out of the newer models. As a result, the Mustang has a perpetual identity crisis, and still the buyers are never really satisfied and end up shitting on everything else to justify their mistake.
Even so, the line gets blurred with this kind of strategy, and many automotive writers are too stupid to understand the difference between a fast car and a driver's car. They in turn feed into the public's lack of understanding.
The funny thing is that I've gotten more attention from Mustang drivers than anything else. I had a driver of a brand new Mustang approach me at a gas station and ask me about the car, whether I liked it, was it fast, etc. Then he just stood there, staring at it with a sort of sad look on his face. He was still staring at it when I said goodbye and left. It was as if he realized at that very moment that he had bought the wrong car.