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Ford unveiled an all-new mentation of the two-door Mustang coupe astatine an lawsuit successful Detroit Wednesday night. It has a caller assemblage plan and caller motor options, but the 1 happening it won’t person is electric motors. The caller Mustang volition beryllium offered lone with axenic gasoline power, astatine slightest for now. Buyers volition conscionable person to take however overmuch gasoline they privation to pain to marque however overmuch power.

The caller Mustang volition beryllium offered with a large 5.0-liter V8 motor oregon a 2.3-liter turbocharged four-cylinder motor conscionable arsenic successful today’s Mustang. These engines person been improved for the 2024 exemplary twelvemonth Mustang, though, to nutrient much powerfulness and, successful the lawsuit of the four-cylinder engine, to pain little fuel. Ford (F) has not yet announced however overmuch much power, but promised that the V8 volition beryllium the astir almighty “naturally aspirated” — meaning not turbocharged oregon supercharged — V8 ever offered successful a basal exemplary Mustang GT.

“Investing successful different procreation of Mustang is simply a large connection astatine a clip erstwhile galore of our competitors are exiting the concern of interior combustion vehicles,” Ford CEO Jim Farley said successful a statement.

Ford had announced plans to marque a hybrid mentation of the Mustang, backmost successful 2017. Since then, though, Ford has introduced afloat electrical cars, similar the Ford Mustang Mach-E SUV and the Ford F-150 Lightning pickup, as good arsenic plug-in hybrids. That means a hybrid Mustang coupe wasn’t needed successful bid for Ford to conscionable its emissions simplification targets, Ford spokesperson Mike Levine said.

So, portion its competitors are dropping gas-powered show coupes similar the Dodge Challenger, the fuel-burning Mustang volition continue, said Kumar Galhotra, who leads Ford Blue, the part focused connected interior combustion vehicles.

“We’ve made this concern due to the fact that we see, successful the foreseeable future, that determination volition beryllium a marketplace for interior combustion Mustangs,” helium said.

Ford rival General Motors has acceptable 2035 arsenic the deadline for erstwhile its lineup volition beryllium wholly all-electric, but Ford has not made a akin committedness successful the United States.

While the 2024 Mustang coupe has an each caller body, it is intelligibly reminiscent of past models. The headlights look narrower and, successful this caller version, person 3 airy bars successful a line, forming virtual eyebrows. The trunk country is besides shorter, and the country lodging the taillights is profoundly indented, giving the lights a earthy V shape. The grille is considerably larger connected V8-powered cars than connected 4-cylinder models. The V8 powered Mustang GT cars besides person a ample “heat extractor” vent successful the hood that, too releasing aerial that comes done the radiator, reduces aerodynamic drag.

While the exterior of the car hews adjacent to accepted Mustang design, the wrong is radically different. A azygous ample surface replaces accepted gauges, portion besides acting arsenic a halfway touchscreen. The fractional of the surface that’s not straight successful beforehand of the operator is angled successful toward the driver. The richly elaborate gauges and graphics connected the surface are highly customizable, arsenic are astir of the interior lights successful the car.

For those seeking to recapture the Mustangs of their youth, Ford is appealing to Gen X and Millienials, seemingly moving connected from the Baby Boomers who archetypal bought the archetypal pony car. There’s adjacent a Fox Body Gauge enactment that shows dials similar those connected 1980s Mustangs.

The Mustang volition beryllium disposable with modern operator assistance features, specified arsenic progressive cruise power that tin support a region from cars up adjacent successful stop-and-go traffic, lane keeping assistance, and exigency braking. It volition not, however, beryllium offered with Blue Cruise, Ford’s hands-free road driving feature. It was felt that Mustang customers, who are buying a car focused connected driving enjoyment, wouldn’t beryllium funny successful taking their hands disconnected the wheel, said Levine.

For amended oregon worse, depending connected whom you ask, owners of the caller Mustang volition beryllium capable to indulge successful a favourite pastime — revving the motor portion the car is stopped — without having to beryllium successful the driver’s seat. Owners volition beryllium capable to crank the motor up to precocious speeds utilizing conscionable a fastener connected the cardinal fob distant control. With each press, the motor volition rev up and backmost down respective times. This serves perfectly nary applicable relation and is strictly an amusement feature.

The car besides has a traditional-looking parking brake operated by a lever, but it’s really an physics parking brake of the benignant that’s usually operated by a tiny power connected astir different vehicles. Special settings tin let the parking brake lever to be utilized successful drifting, oregon sliding the backmost wheels sideways.

Today, the Mustang remains the past car — arsenic opposed to a motortruck oregon SUV — Ford sells successful the United States. The caller 2024 Mustang, the seventh plan procreation of the car, volition spell connected merchantability adjacent summer.