After the 2023 sales were tallied across the US automotive market, it turned out that even though the 2023 Dodge Challenger and 2024 Chevy Camaro turned into collectibles as production came to a halt in December, they weren't interesting enough to beat the combined power of the S550 and S650 Ford Mustang.
Overall, the latter's sales were up by just 2.2 percent compared to 2022, but that was enough to reach 48,605 deliveries in the United States of America. Meanwhile, Dodge's Challenger, despite taking part in the 'Last Call' special edition shenanigans dedicated to it and the Charger sedan, fell 18 percent to almost 45k, and the lonely Camaro rose nearly 26% from its abysmal form to a little over 31k.
That's disappointing, for sure, but also not the worst performance because the Toyota GR Supra and Nissan Z, for example, only managed to move 2,652 and 1,771 vehicles, respectively! Anyway, back to the Mustang, the originator of the pony car movement is now alone on the market with no competition from its Detroit peers – Dodge is currently teasing the next-gen Charger Daytona (EV) model, but the new two-door fastback coupe won't arrive on the market until late this year – probably too late to make an impact.
However, that doesn't mean Ford should fall asleep at the wheel, thinking that everything is rosy when no real competitors are in sight. Instead, since discontinuing the Charger sedan leaves more space, maybe it's time to act and offer a solution. At least that's the credo stemming from the imaginative realm of digital car content creators - more precisely from the virtual artist tucked behind the AscarissDesign moniker on social media, who now has a big craving for something American - the Mustang (GT) sport sedan.
Remembering how Ford revealed the S650 seventh-generation 2024 Mustang along with some cool design sketches back in the day, he decided to bring back to our attention the interesting official vision of a four-door Mustang coupe. The pixel master knows that immediately after it surfaced, there were quite a few renderings from other fellow virtual artists out and about in the parallel universes of vehicular CGI, but he dismisses all after calling them "a Mustang with additional rear doors."
Instead, in this making-of video embedded below, we see his dreamy vision of a four-door Mustang sports sedan that is as close as possible to the official sketch and also ready for potential series production. In the feature, it's pretty clear that a lot of input is actually needed to make the fresh S650 Mustang look good, not just as a fastback coupe or Cabriolet but also as a four-door saloon. So, do you like it? And would you like it with EcoBoost, GT, or Dark Horse power levels under the hood?
Aurel has aimed high all his life (literally, at 16 he was flying gliders all by himself) so in 2006 he switched careers and got hired as a writer at his favorite magazine. Since then, his work has been published both by print and online outlets, most recently right here, on autoevolution. Full profile
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