Muscle has gone modern for 2010 as the Ford Mustang America’s favorite muscle car for 45 years straight. It is hitting the streets with a bang and has improved in handling characteristics, more standard safety and technology features and its already-strong safety and quality performances and reputation, and it’s easy to see how the muscle car known around the world has been promising and deliver on the promise of fast, fun and affordable on the promise of being on a whole new era.

More than 9 million customers have made Mustang one of the world’s most beloved automotive and cultural icons,” said Mark Fields, Ford’s president of The Americas. “Making sure this modern legend lives up to their expectations has been a driving force for the team, which went to great lengths – gathering customer input everywhere from race tracks to Main Streets in cities throughout the U.S. – working to create the best Mustang ever.” For 2010, the team delivered.

“The new Mustang marks new levels of both power and refinement,” said Paul Randle, Mustang chief engineer. “We’ve designed and engineered this to be the next classic Mustang that everyone talks about for years and years.”