When the Ford Probe, a V6-powered sports car, was launched in the late 1980s, it was met with widespread criticism and poor sales. The unconventional styling and its overshadowed role as a Mustang ...

For decades, the Mustang has been Ford's poster child for performance. It has stayed true to a familiar formula: front-engine, rear-wheel-drive, V8 power. It worked, so why change it? But behind the ...