What if the Ford Probe Actually Replaced the Mustang?

The future of pony cars would have been inexorably altered in our alternate history of American performance.

Last year marked the 60th anniversary of the Ford Mustang, an icon of speed and style that’s outlasted countless industry trends and would-be competitors to be the only traditional car left in the Blue Oval’s American portfolio. It’s also the final gas-powered muscle machine still on the market, but the Mustang very nearly didn’t make it to see this glory, having been slated for replacement by the front-wheel-drive Probe at the end of the 1980s — a plan Ford eventually walked away from after an uproar from the Mustang faithful …

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