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Tested: 1984 Ford Mustang SVO Is a Driver's Pony Car From the Archive: The first car from Ford's new Special Vehicle Operations group, the turbocharged Mustang SVO portends good things for Blue Oval enthusiasts. From the October 1983 Issue of Car and Driver. Forty thousand feet. Ground speed, 545 mph. We are boring through the atmosphere eastward, ensconced in the leather-lined lap of luxury in one of the Ford Motor Company's Grumman Gulfstream corporate jets—which looks like a chopped-and-channeled Boeing 727. This is the rarefied air of the corporate giants, and sitting across the linen-...

Ford set out to recapture the Mark I’s cachet in 1956 with the beautiful Continental Mark II. Although its lines were clean and classic and extensive care was lavished on it execution it failed to generate the hoped for sales, due in part to a high $10,000 price tag. The Mark II was built for only two years, after which Lincoln styling descended into a morass of garishly sculpted monsters. Not surprisingly, sales plunged from 41,567 in 1957, to 24,820 in 1960. A new direction was needed to replace those dreadnoughts and for 1961 Lincoln designers met the challenge with one of the lovelie...