The Ford Mustang has been on sale not only in the U.S., but also, a number of global markets for quite a few years now. That list includes China, where the iconic pony car continues to be sold to this day, with the S650-generation model debuting there back in April 2024. For now at least, exports of the Ford Mustang to China are on hold – along with a variety of other models – due to tariffs placed on those models, but that hasn’t stopped Ford China from imagining its own version of what a future example of the pony car might look like, if they were to design it.
At the recent Auto Shanghai show, the Ford China Design Center presented the top three winning designs from “Mustang – A Grand Tour of Re-Imagination” – a collaboration between that entity and the CDS Transportation Design Academy. The idea was to challenge automotive design students from the school to come up with their vision for the future of the Ford Mustang, all while honoring its past.
The challenge launched back in December 2024 and wound up garnering 25 participants from 22 universities across China and other parts of the world, and in February, a jury whittled that list down to eight standout designs – whose designers earned a tour of the Ford China Design Center in Shanghai. Spending a week there in mid-March, that group of students worked with Ford designers to transform their early sketches into detailed 3D digital models and even used virtual reality. Ultimately, three designs were chosen for display at Auto Shanghai.
“We are proud that this industry-academia collaboration drew in so many talented young designers,” said Max Wolff, Design Director of Ford China and IMG. “The Ford China Design Center is a full service design studio that handles the design process from early customer insights all the way through to final surface verification. This allowed us to evaluate not only the students’ creative vision, but their grasp of the automotive design process, providing an invaluable hands-on experience for them. The CDS students showed incredible creativity, a great work ethic, and professionalism in striving for excellence – qualities that will be vitally important for the future of our industry.”
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With one sequential turn signal permanently activated.
Ford Mustang’s current looks are as good as it’s ever been, let’s stick with a winner.
Please don’t ruin the looks of the Mustang, like Chevrolet has done with the Corvette.
It doesn’t need to look like a Formula One to be fast.
you can’t even call that a Mustang
Probe, maybe.
CHINA reimagines the Mustang, really??? who gives a rats end what China thinks of the Mustang, doesn’t Ford USA have any talented people to show what Americans might like to see? this global crap screws up everything
I guess Ford is finished !!!!! Now their getting F China to redesign American sports cars !!!!!!!!!! Better start rehiring all those real engineers that you F fired !!!!!!!
The current model looks great just leave it alone China
All over the top, so no.
WTF?