HudginJ3...Mustang was based on the falcons.

This is what the new Mustangs should have looked like.

Or these

http://chng.it/PBXmMfmb4v

There is a Change.org petition to change the name to something other than Mustang. The curious thing about the petition is that they are asking for $14 to sign the petition. I have to wonder where the money is going.

Nos681 wrote:

Or these

Beautiful cars, but undrivable.  Look at the front tire to fender clearance.  First  bump and they are scrubbing the rubber off the tire and maybe ruining the fenders.
 

Honestly, I don't want the new cars to look exactly like the old ones, and they never will for a lot of reasons.  First off, remember the awful bumpers from the '70's?  5MPH crash standards caused that.  Eventually the manufacturers figured out how to make the bumpers pretty, but the days of metal bumpers on cars are gone, and aren't coming back.

Second, with CAFE standards all cars have to be slicked and \shaped using wind tunnel data to wring the most economy they can from the car cutting through the air.  They can't afford the CAFE ding they'd get from a high production vehicle like the Mustang if they built the cars looking more like the old ones because the old ones aren't terribly aerodynamic. 

Third, new cars are just bigger because of all the junk crammed in them.

Frankly, I'm glad.  The nostalgia of owning these old cars is that they are from a different time.  Cars were designed for beauty as well as function, without the concerns of CAFE and crash standards.  Its the aesthetic equivalent of that feeling you get when the back barrels hit when you floor a car with a 4 barrel carb.  Sure, the EFI car might be faster, but its just never going to do that.