The grille is more prominent, the front splitter has been revised, and the hood is adorned with a pair of louvered heat-extractor vents that are actually functional. The styling updates are subtle but probably obvious to Mustang cognoscenti, and just extensive enough to make the cars look new to potential converts. It entails a number of styling tweaks, some cool performance-measuring electronics, a Recaro-seat option (leather or cloth, adapted from the GT500 and Boss 302), a very modest increase in the output of the Mustang’s 5.0-liter V-8, and a couple Shaker sound systems capable of rousing sound sleepers in the next county (and making them glad they woke up). With that in mind, the latest updates to the mainstream Mustang, on sale now as an early 2013 model, add up to a freshening. The people who file P&L statements aren’t known for their automotive passions, and even less for sentimentality.
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However passionate the keepers of the faith may be, the compelling improvements they might like to install are inevitably tempered by the corporate funding apportioned to the task. How well the stewards of this 49-year-old icon discharge their sobering duty is a function of their creativity, their understanding of both Mustang loyalists and potential Mustang wannabes, and-the essential element-budget. The challenge of keeping an automotive legend evergreen increases in direct proportion to its age, which makes the perpetuation of the Ford Mustang one of the most formidable assignments in American autodom.
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