The apple of her eye
The Mustang almost ceased to exist during the late ’80s. Plans were made to replace it with a rebadged front-wheel-drive Mazda MX-6. The Fox Body Mustang, barely recognized as a Mustang by the ill-informed, was stumbling towards the end of the longest production run of any Mustang in history, from 1979 to 1993. The third-generation Fox Body looked more like a family two-door hatchback than a sports car and sales steadily declined. Ford, which, at the time, owned a large percentage of Mazda, not wanting to spend money developing a new car for a dying market, believed that a restyled Mazda MX-6 might be the cheapest way to give the Mustang brand a shot in the arm.
Fortunately, enthusiasts wrote to Ford objecting to this ignominious fate for the all-American pony car. The iconic
