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by bbattle » May 29th 2020, 1:49pm
The guy that came up with the Mustang II should be drawn, quartered, stabbed, and then hanged. Not even having a Charlie's Angel driving one on tv (Kate Jackson had the Cobra II model) made that piece of recycled Maverick leftovers worth driving. [well, she made it into a chick car at that point, at least in my mind. ]
The EPA and safety regulations that bombarded the car makers starting in 1970 caught them flatfooted and slower than a deer in the headlights. Their response was to simply lower the compression on their behemoth V8's until they had the same horsepower as today's riding lawnmower.
But you'd never notice the loss of power, seeing as how just about everything on the car would break 5 seconds after driving off the dealer lot. By 1974, the damage was done and Japan was beginning to take over the US auto market in terms of reliability and certainly gas mileage.