Ford’s rethink of its product strategy sees the brand edging closer to introducing a sedan variant of the Mustang coupe for the first time ever.

The unprecedented model stepped closer to a production reality with a key Ford executive revealing that the company is looking to expand its Mustang group of products. In an interview with Automotive News, Andrew Frick, the head of both Ford’s internal combustion and hybrid vehicle business unit, Ford Blue, and its electric vehicle line, Ford e, singled out the Mustang while discussing the potential for a new sedan.

When asked about comments from Ford’s CEO Jim Farley about the return of a sedan, Frick responded, “We have a really great Mustang that people consider a car. We look to expand on the Mustang family as we move forward.”

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Ford’s line-up in the USA has been without a sedan since 2020, with the end of the Fusion model line, essentially the North American version of the Mondeo.

Comments from Ford’s CEO have pointed to a return of traditional passenger cars, and in Europe, the brand has announced that a compact car, sized like the Fiesta, is locked in to fill that gap there.

As early as 2022, Ford released official design sketches of a four-door Mustang as part of the development process for the design of the current Mustang coupe and convertible. Later, in a 2024 Autocar interview, Farley was quoted as saying, “Could we do other Mustang body forms – a four-door or whatever? I believe we could.”

WhichCar was even musing about a four-door Mustang in 2022, after the release of the 2023 Ford Mustang, and ran a render by artist Theottle to indicate what it might look like (below).

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Frick cautioned that the shrinking sedan market and the ongoing popularity of SUVs mean that balancing development and production costs would play a pivotal role in bringing any new model to market.

“It’s going to have to make sense within our portfolio. It’s going to have to make sense within a family that we may already offer. And it’s going to have to be very cost-effective for us to do it.” Frick said.

A four-door Mustang would also give Ford a competitor to the new Dodge Charger, which is available as both a coupe and sedan, and a potential fighter for a new Chevrolet Camaro, rumoured to return in 2028 as a sedan, rather than a coupe for the first time.

With platform sharing now a major part of the development of new models in the name of cost efficiency, adapting the Mustang’s unique D2C chassis architecture into a higher-volume model could be a way for Ford to amortise the cost of both the Mustang coupe and a potential future sedan.

A sedan model, built alongside the coupe and convertible, could also help Ford utilise production capacity at its Flat Rock, Michigan assembly site.