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THE hot-selling Ford Mustang may only be a year old in Australia, but early prototypes of the 2019 model-year makeover indicate a new nose cone, revised rear end styling, and Shelby GT350-style quad exhausts.
Don’t hold your breath, though, because while the S550 facelift sprung here wearing swirly camo is set for the Detroit show after next in January 2018, production probably won’t start until later on that year, meaning early 2019 is a real possibility.
This is Ford, after all, and witness how long the Ford Edge SUV is taking to reach our shores…
These include an all-new dashboard promising better quality materials, the long-awaited 10-speed automatic transmission (consigning the current Mustang’s six-speeder to history), and the availability at last of adaptive dampers.
More intriguingly, though the pictured prototype’s body kit points to this being a fairly stock Mustang, the quad exhausts poking from the diffuser underneath suggests Shelby GT350, so is a significant performance upgrade imminent for the standard V8?
Finally, new alloy wheel designs and updates to the colour pallet should complete the 2019 Mustang facelift. Prices should remain in line with today’s models, meaning from $45,000 for the 2.3-litre four-pot turbo, to nearly $70K for the range-topping V8.
Watch this space…
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