Not surprisingly all the recent media attention given to the Mustang is focused on the Shelby GT500 and GT500KR.  Both are ultra fast performance cars with 500 and 550 horsepower on tap respectively. Most performance-oriented buyers will never have the opportunity to own or even sit in one of these new rare Shelbys. But then again most people who do get the opportunity to own one of these horsepower monsters, they probably won't be driving it much keeping it as a collectible. 

However the good news is that the car that offers the most bang for the buck in the Mustang fleet is

Ford having muddled through the 1970s without any major breakthrough innovative cars, was changing its tune by the 1980s. Ford decided by the early 1980s to cast its stodgy image aside and begin to build innovative and modern looking cars. The 1979 Fox bodied Mustang was the initial catalyst in this change in policy. It was Ford’s first vehicle to incorporate modern European styling. It was a pleasant change from the boxy Fairmont, Granada, LTD, and other boring products Ford produced at the time. A few years into the 1980s, Ford had a new aerodynamic state-of-the-art Thunderbird and e