Originally Posted By: addyguy
If it wasn't for the Mustang II, there WOULDN'T BE a Mustang at all.
Well, its not like the 1965-72 Mustangs would have slipped into another dimension and never existed. What would have been wrong with that, really? The current Mustang would still exist, it would just have another name. People put too much into car names.
As for the years after the Mudstain II, the Fox-based Mustang might not have been called 'Mustang' and it might have taken a long time to bring the name back, but I'm sure they would have. The Challenger's back, the Charger's back, the GTO came back, heck, even the Taurus came back! They'd have brought the name 'Mustang' back SOME time or other. No matter how you slice it, even with a fairly potent 302 under the hood in the abomination called "Cobra II", its hard to see anything positive about the Maverick-stang.