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Ford Mustang joins Team Sky fleet for Tour de France

Iconic US muscle car now available in right hand drive version
by Simon_MacMichael
Thu, Jun 23, 2016 19:07
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Team Sky’s Tour de France campaign next month will have the support of one of the most iconic cars in the history of motoring – the Ford Mustang.

Earlier today, the team tweeted two pictures of the vehicle in its black and blue livery, saying “all will be revealed soon!”

Ford replaced Jaguar as a team sponsor at the start of 2016, and our best guess is that the Mustang will be rolled out on the two time trial stages, as Team Sky has previously done with the Jaguar F-Type.

Launched in 1964, the Mustang featured in the famous car chase in the Steve McQueen film Bullitt, as well as in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever.

It’s also the subject of the Wilson Pickett song Mustang Sally, which got a new lease of life in the 1990s when it was covered on the soundtrack of the film The Commitments.

The sixth generation of the Mustang was launched last year and for the first time includes a right hand drive version for markets such as the UK where vehicles are driven on the left.

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Simon MacMichael

Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.

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bsknight | 8 years ago
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"We're adding even more horsepower to our #TDF2016 lineup. "

 

How very green of you.

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Stumps | 8 years ago
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Want one........

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alansmurphy | 8 years ago
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The Mondeo's are practical, this is marketing sweetie!

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tritecommentbot | 8 years ago
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Shame something that isn't a total throwback wasn't picked up as sponsor instead. LIke a Tesla but with artificial engine sound as they're a bit quiet for these sort of close encounters. 

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Yorkshire wallet | 8 years ago
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I'm a sucker for the sound of a V8 but it's not the best choice of team car.

It would sound pretty awesome if the rest of the teams got in on it though. It'd be like Mad Max Fury Road out there!

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Christopher TR1 | 8 years ago
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Hmm, well I wouldn't mind something a bit more practical than the wife's Mazda for the odd occasion when I want to transport a bike.

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mrchrispy | 8 years ago
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Right lads....who has the smallest disk?

We need someone to drive the new motor...

 

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dafyddp | 8 years ago
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The antithesis of cycling. Horrible, inelegant, over-powered, fuel-guzzling tanks  driven by fat fucks that over-compensate for their lack of athleticism by shouting about their right of way.  And I'm a Sky fan.

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handlebarcam | 8 years ago
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Can a gas-guzzler like that make it through an entire Tour de France stage? Can it fit down narrow French country roads? Those sorts of vehicles are usually the ones that roar up behind you on single-track sunked lanes, with the driver revving their ridicuously over-powered engines, expecting you to somehow vanish into thin air.

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Gus T | 8 years ago
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Yup, cycling is certainally a green mode of transport

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Pierre | 8 years ago
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We've got a customer with one of those. They are terrible at tight corners and he says he's got very practiced at the 15-point turn in a car park...

Like "dodgy" said, it's going to make for some comical moments on the tight Alpine switchbacks!

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dodgy | 8 years ago
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They don't go around corners too well, or so the petrol heads say.

Expecting to see this dangling off some tree on the descent from the Joux Plane.

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Edgeley replied to dodgy | 8 years ago
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I drove one in the US last year.  A pig to drive.  Also, hard to see how the bikes are going to go on top.

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