Laurie Transou recently took over as Lead Program Engineer for the Ford Mustang. She's in charge of the final adjustments and production roll-out of the new 2024 Mustang. As with every Mustang for the past 59 years, this new one will be available with only gasoline engines.
During what turned out to be a very long drive over a very short distance, I learned a little about her and about Ford's decision to keep the Mustang going after almost 60 years.
Transou never spoke a bad word about the Mustang Mach-E but, as someone who learned how to drive a manual transmission car in a Mustang as a teenager, she clearly has a personal attachment. The car we were in, the Mustang coupe, is already an oddity in the American auto industry. First, it's the only actual car Ford currently sells in the United States. Every other Ford product sold here is a truck or an SUV. Second, its main competitors, the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger, are both going out of production over the coming year.
Given room to breathe, the Mustang will remain — like a sort of living fossil of an earlier age in motoring. That is, of course, part of its ongoing charm, and probably one of the reasons Ford decided not to even offer a hybrid version, at least for now. Once we'd gone a few blocks on southbound 10th Avenue with little other traffic, it was time to head back north or, in Manhattan parlance, uptown. That was when I realized our mistake. Once we turned back north, we were headed toward the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour.
"I think once you learn how to drive a manual, it's such an engaging, fun experience," she said."It's just like you're part of the drive."The modern"high tech" option, when it comes to the Mustang is the 315 horsepower"EcoBoost" turbocharged 4-cylinder engine which, Transou pointed out, provides much more power than the big V8 engine in the 1991 Mustang she had when she was young.
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