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Even the very first production Mustang is still around. Originally purchased new by Stanley Tucker, an airline pilot from St. John's, Newfoundland, Ford Motor Company offered him Mustang number one million in exchange in 1966; he chose a new made-to-order Mustang instead. Number one is currently on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan and a photo of the car can be viewed at their website.
In 1984 Ford's in house performance team- SVT, or Special Vehicle Team, unveileved the Mustang SVO. Powered by a 2.3 turbocharged four making 175 hp, the SVO was targeted at the European and Japanese performance cars of the day and it's base price of $15,596 reflected it as well. But for all of it's handling improvements and performance goodies it never really caught on with the Mustang crowd and was dropped after 1986. Many people beileve that it came down to cost. For the price of one SVO you could get two Mustang GTs powered by the equally powerful 5.0 liter engine. But SVT would learn it's lesson. The high performance Mustang buyer wanted a powerful V8 under the hood and this new attitude would be reflected when the SVT team brought out the Cobra in 1993.
Championed by Ford Division general manager Lee Iacocca first as a two-seat mid engined roadster then later as a four-place Mustang and penned by David Ash and Joseph Oros in Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division design studios (the Mustang was the winning design in an intramural design contest called by Iacocca), the base, yet well-equipped Mustang hardtop with its 105 hp (78 kW), 156 ft·lbf (212 N·m) 170 in³ (2.8 L) inline six-cylinder engine and three-speed manual transmission listed for US$2,368.
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