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Ford Probe: The Failed Front-Wheel Drive Ford Mustang
The Ford Mustang is an American automotive icon, but in the mid-1980s, Ford was quietly preparing to kill it off. Facing lingering anxieties from the oil crises and a massive surge in popularity for efficient, front-wheel-drive Japanese imports, Ford executives made a controversial decision: the next-generation Mustang would be a front-wheel-drive, four-cylinder sports coupe built on a Mazda platform. It was a radical, pragmatic shift that made perfect sense on paper—and it ignited one of the fiercest consumer revolts in automotive history.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━📚 ORDER MY NEW BOOK "History…
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