It is an interesting car but to me it looks more like a road marker of showing where thought was being given.
A successful Mustang production vehicle. The continuation of the GT40 as the Gulf. Still lingering sentiment about Ford owning an Italian car company, and the introduction of Detomaso and his Pantera into the equation?
Lots of wheels spinning at the same time. Someone needed to decide what was strictly a design exercise and why the company should go in one particular direction considering the looming EPA issues that needed to be complied with?
Ford does not have a good record on continuing with one particular design deviation.
You can list the "projects" they had been involved with going back into the '30s and culminating maybe even as far as the re-emergence of the GT, dangling it as a shiny object to the public, then bang, it was gone?
Some say a leopard can't change it's spots? I'd expect more of the same from them?
They continue to play hocus-pocus with moving names around on cars like the electric SUV "Mustang". They ain't going to change. They've always attempted to hedge their bets.
The Mach was just one of them. Lots of cars were reported to be crushed that weren't.
It will be the Phoenix, rising out of the ashes. Wait and see. Someone somewhere has it.