Last week, the Ford Mustang joined Brad Pitt, Eddie Murphy, and Lisa Kudrow on the list of 60-year-old icons.
We’ll give you a minute. We needed one.
Back? Let’s try a different intro. Last week, the Ford Mustang turned 60. Birthday celebrations included a limited-edition 60th-anniversary package, a new Mustang Experience Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, where fans can attend racing school, and an invitation to apply for the right to buy the Mustang GTD supercar. Yes, you need approval.
But you don’t mark a milestone birthday quickly and move on. To do it right, you celebrate again and again.
After the party ended, Ford CEO Jim Farley suggested the party wasn’t over. He posted a teaser image to X (formerly Twitter), hinting at another Mustang special edition. The picture shows the contours of a Mustang beneath a yellow sheet. Farley’s test promises “one more thing to share,” that’s “coming next year.”
We can’t make much out under cover other than a higher-than-normal spoiler in the back.
But there may be a clue, oddly enough, in filenames. Today, the photo file has a string of nonsense numbers and letters for a name. But when Farley first posted it, Autoblog notes, it appeared under the name “RTR Fun 03b.”
RTR is the name of a tuner shop headed by former Formula Drift champion Vaughn Gittin Jr. RTR builds performance parts for Mustang models. It will modify your 2024 Mustang to either of two high-performance specifications, upgrading everything from suspension to styling.
A formal Ford-RTR team-up would make sense, and Gittin’s youth (he’s 43) might help keep the old man looking younger than olds like Pitt. Sigh.
