I’ve loved Ford’s Mustangs since I was very young, or since the 1964 Mustang first dazzled all of us with its beauty, speed, and best of all, affordability. Here was a performance car that ordinary people could buy!
I recently watched a fascinating documentary titled A Faster Horse. It shows how Ford Motors continues to keep founder Henry Ford’s initial promise to the American people. Ford promised to give them exactly what they told him they wanted, back in an era when most people still owned a horse. To put it simply, they all wanted “A Faster Horse.”
The doc (now available at Video on Demand) follows Team Mustang—a dedicated group of designers, engineers, and other professionals based in Dearborn, Michigan at the facility where the first Mustang was developed. The team was led by Chief Engineer Dave Pericak, who says he fell in love with Mustangs as a teenager. Later, as a young Ford engineer he borrowed a Mustang from his boss, drove it to pick up his girlfriend, and proposed to her.
Pericak and Team Mustang spent over five years working on the new 2015 Mustang, so it could appear in dealerships across the world in time for the iconic brand’s 50th anniversary celebration last fall. “From day one, we knew if we were going to build a new Mustang, we had to do it right,” said Pericak. “We built a new Mustang from the ground up that is quicker, better-looking, more refined and more efficient, without losing any of the raw appeal that people have associated with Mustang for half a century.”
