As you’ve no doubt already heard (you DO read TMR obsessively, right?) Ford’s evergreen Mustang is celebrating its 45th birthday this year.

Fans of the original pony car are already gathering around the USA to pay tribute to the car, but one well-wisher is more than a little unexpected. Hyundai Motor America just put up this [...]

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Certain badges simply can’t be retired. Nissan’s Z and GT-R models, the MINI, the Beetle, the Camaro.  Some of them have seen a model in showrooms in just about every decade since their birth; others have had the cobwebs dusted off the badge and joined us again after a long absence.

In the case of the [...]

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As part of an effort to spread the word on Ford’s blue-collar hero car, Formula D star Vaughn Gitten Jnr recently travelled to Japan with the 2010 Ford Mustang.  While he was there, Gitten  Jnr spent most of his time doing official duties for Ford, showcasing the car at public events and drift shows.

But that [...]

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Drifting. It’s a deadly serious form of motorsport to some and a passing fad to others, but no matter what your opinion everyone agrees that it takes a certain level of finesse to initiate, hold and prolong a good slide.

Professional drifter Vaughn Gitten Junior has the magic touch, and he makes a living getting cars [...]

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Don’t have the cash for your own Mustang GT350 replica but can afford an SW20 Toyota MR2 and a big wad of fibreglass? Ride Cars from the UK have got something that could be right up your alley.

Ride Cars will sell you a full set of fibreglass bodypanels to re-body your MR2 into something that [...]

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Although initially shown in pre-warpaint form last year during the 2010 Ford Mustang unveiling, Falken Tyres’ drifting ‘Stang, driven by Vaughn Gittin Jr, is now getting around the traps in its full racing livery.

Forgoing the usual outlandish drifting body kits and huge GT wing, Gittin’s Mustang is wearing Falken’s traditional straked blue and aqua pattern [...]

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Ford has dropped a steaming-hot load of info on the upcoming 2010 Shelby GT500 pony car, revealing that it’ll boast more power, more torque, better handling and more refinement than the outgoing model.

Using the last-gen GT500KR’s mechanical package as its basis, the new GT500 boasts a massive 402kW and 692Nm from its supercharged 5.4-litre V8, [...]

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With the new 2010 Mustang, Ford has taught us all just how long you can stretch out a campaign, releasing a shadowy new image almost twice a week, each time revealing just another corner of the Mustang’s subtle new facelift (and websites falling over themselves to be the first to share it with their readers).

The [...]

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Well chaps, yet another hour and a half of Jason Statham’s grimaces and steely-eyed stares have been visited upon us, this time in the form of Paul W.S. Anderson’s (Event Horizon, AVP) Death Race, the remake of 1976’s Death Race 2000.  I wonder; could they not have called it Death Race 2012?  Anyway, let’s move [...]

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Four weeks to go until the full reveal of Ford’s 2010 Mustang at the LA Motor Show. The latest round of teaser images have been added to the gallery for your drooling pleasure. The new image shows a close-up of the aptly named ‘Powerdome’ bonnet which we’re hoping is more about function than form - meaning [...]

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Ford has released yet another 2010 Mustang teaser image to add to the gallery, this time giving us a full view of the dashboard. Unfortunately, the image is not close enough to get a clear look at gauges and switch gear, but from what we can see, it looks ‘the business’.

The prominent new Pony badge, [...]

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Hmmm, the plot surrounding Lamborghini’s impending four-door supercar is starting to thicken up quite nicely.

While we can’t verify whether these sketches originated from Lamborghini’s design studio or whether the cars drawn depict the final item, there’s some uncanny similarities between these drawings and the three official teaser images recently released by Lamborghini.

The angle-tastic Reventon flavour [...]

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