Fun facts..

to make it in a shrinking market. It's FIAT's call.

Pix I've seen look nice, but hear it will be built on an Alfa chassis, which is good news/bad news.

...without it's signature V10. They plan to use the Hemi that powers the Dodge Demon and Hellcat, an engine they swore a couple years ago wouldn't fit in a Viper due to height restrictions. That'll go up against the Corvette and Ford GT, a car FCA no longer has after cancelling the aging Viper platform last year.

The dodge Challenger competes nicely against the other pony cars right now. Adding another one would just be an added expense with no upside. Some of the design cues from the Barracuda concept are likely to find their way on future Challenger upgrades.

Cars are like pizzas now. Instead of offering five different shaped pies, you just pick one of three sizes and add expensive toppings to your taste. and wallet. The Mustang has always been such a car.

In most cases this would be true but equating the 1970 Boss 429 Mustang with it's distant cousin, with an inline 6 cylinder is a bit of a stretch. I suppose however the Shelby Mustangs are essentially different from the basic Fords.

But the Boss 429 was indeed the same 1970 platform as the so called "secretary car" that was the base model that year. Instead of a distant cousin it was actually a primped up sister car with every available performance topping, including suspension upgrades to match the increased power. Even the body panels were the same with bolt on pieces to appear more beefy, including the hood and spoiler. As usual with the Mustang, it was offered in three basic sub-models, hardtop, fastback, and convertible (though not all available on the Boss). In the pizza world that would be akin to choosing between vegetarian, Hawaiian, and meat lovers, plus expensive toppings via the factory, Shelby, and official aftermarket shop Car Craft.

As far as DNA lineage goes, I believe the only cousin the Mustang ever knew was the Falcon, a related platform that spawned the original Mustang. It lived on in Australia until two years ago where it too followed the pizza analogy for performance upgrades, the eventual product being almost unrecognizable from the original econo box. Sad that they never saw our shores after 1970.

Still you're right that it's hard to imagine one sister in the car universe could be so dowdy while another a supermodel, but such is the reality of life itself.

The new "apron" and revised fenders kind of say this is remodeled and reworked car rather than just bolt on options or dropping in a bigger engine. (Your mileage, although poor, may vary)

Had to be the coolest blank check factory car ever.

I also didn't know it was spelled with Ks. I must have confused it with my favorite magazine when I was a teen.

From the '60s and '70s.

I loved the GT40 and AC/Shelby Cobra.

I was also a fan of the Superbird/Daytona and I wanted the Shah's P400 SV/J Miura and a Porsche 917.