New Ford Mustang meets high expectations again

It might be that the legendary Ford Mustang traditionally had Neanderthal technological leanings and largely appealed to the American blue-collar Rock Ape end of the ownership spectrum, but those facts cannot mask the essential truth of a car which stirs the soul of any true petrolhead — yours truly included. It is simply one of the most celebrated cars ever made.

That the Mustang is, effectively, an automotive cause célèbre, means that pretty much everyone with even a just a smidgen of oil coursing through their veins has had a Mustang moment during their lives - be it as remote as having watched the chase scenes in Bullitt, or as hands-on as having actually driven one of the many variants down the years.

Personally, my own ‘Mustang Moment’ came when I was about nine or 10 when a priest friend of the family returned from the States in the early 70s to become a curate in the Rathmines parish in Dublin, which was all very normal.