I worked at Ford when the 05 body style came out. The first month or so we only had V6's in blue and red. For every 10 or so V6's we got in we could get in a V8. They all sold like crazy, no deals given. You paid full retail or didn't get one. Then we got the rest of the colors ... en masse. The lot looked a gigantic pack of skittles jizzed everywhere. We couldn't even fit them all so many came in. We were stacking them out back, in the lawn, on curbs, in the service area, anywhere we could find space. And they kept coming in, too. We probably had 10 Mustangs for every one of any other type of vehicle. It looked like we quit selling anything but Mustangs. At that point we couldn't give them away. The salesmen were cutting 5, 10, 15k off the sticker price just to get them the **** off the lot. They couldn't sell enough so they had to start cutting prices on everything else just to make room for all the skittle jizz. Every teenage high school girl had daddy buying her a skittles-colored V6 'Stang for her 16th birthday. The same car that went for $35k in months 1 & 2 were going for $15-20k at this point. Almost immediately they started to fall apart. The interiors were nothing but cheap plastic. The engines were problematic and fussy. Transmissions were simply time bombs. As far as I am concerned that model Mustang is the biggest piece of **** Ford has ever produced, followed closely by the 6.0 diesel. The diesel would be first except that there weren't nearly as many of them as the Mustangs.
