2005 Ford Mustang Tour Comes Home

The Ford Mustang is America's car, so Ford Motor Company is bringing Mustang to America this spring and summer. The current 40-city tour that began last month in Dallas to celebrate the Pony car's 40th anniversary and welcome the 2005 model, comes home to Detroit on May 20-22, along with an entourage of its most devoted fans and their classic cars.

The Ford Mustang is America's car, so Ford Motor Company is bringing Mustang to America this spring and summer. The current 40-city tour that began last month in Dallas to celebrate the Pony car's 40th anniversary and welcome the 2005 model, comes home to Detroit on May 20-22, along with an entourage of its most devoted fans and their classic cars.

The centerpiece of the tour is the newest incarnation of the Pony car pop icon - a 2005 Ford Mustang GT. In Detroit, it is being accompanied by Ford's 300 millionth car (a 2004 Mustang), hundreds of Mustang car-club enthusiasts and a troupe of 60 drivers and their Mustangs from the U.S., England, Germany, New Zealand and Australia who are crossing the country in "The Great American Pony Drive II" to celebrate the anniversary and welcome the new model.

The highlight of the Detroit stop will be a gigantic "Cruise-in" at Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn at noon on May 20 to salute the Pony Drive II drivers who will make their grand entrance caravan-style before an assemblage of hundreds of Mustangs owned by Michigan club members and Ford employees. Sir Mack Rice, the creator of "Mustang Sally" will perform a sing-along version of his classic backed by the Ford employee band, No Boundaries.

Since its dramatic 1964 introduction when customers flocked to dealerships with checkbooks in hands, Mustang has been the icon of American performance and style.

For 2005, Mustang combines all-new, fully modern architecture with all the soul that makes a Mustang a Mustang - bold style, a brawny engine and rear-wheel-drive excitement.

"The all-new version of the legendary Mustang is a great way to show Americans what we mean by our commitment to producing great products," said Edsel B. Ford II, a member of the Board of Directors of Ford Motor Company, who will help host the Detroit stop on the tour. "It's also a tangible example of Ford drawing on its storied past to help solidify a future centered on great products." Mustang has been the top-selling sports car for 18 years running. More than 8 million have been produced and sold since its 1964 introduction.