"First published in 2013 as Mustang: fifty years by Motorbooks, an imprint of Quarto Publishing Group."--Title page verso

Mustang enters the market -- Big-blocks, machs and bosses -- The little jewel -- Code name Fox: the new breed -- Fox 4: save the Mustang -- The rebirth -- History with a future -- Racing to improve the breed -- Concepts and prototypes -- Popular culture

In the early 1960s, Lee Iacocca--then director of the Ford division at Ford Motor Company--convinced Henry Ford II to produce a sporty four-seat car aimed at the emerging youth market. That car, essentially a reconfigured and re-skinned Falcon economy car, became the Ford Mustang, and it changed the automotive world like no other car before or since. In Mustang: Fifty Years, acclaimed Mustang writer Donald Farr celebrates this unbroken lineage of muscle: its phenomenal first-year sales, the new "pony car" genre it pioneered, and subsequent models that include the Mustang GT, Shelby GT350, Shelby GT500, Super Cobra Jet, Boss 302 and Boss 429--all part of a line of American performance cars that continues on to this day