All-new muscle car to make its movie debut in March

FORD’S Mustang has been a star of the silver screen and the small screen for almost 50 years, with in excess of 3 200 appearances in movies and television shows.

The all-new Mustang is now getting off to a quick start with its movie debut in Need for Speed in March.

Need for Speed star, Aaron Paul will drive the custom 2014 Mustang hero car in the highly anticipated movie based on the long-running electronic arts video game series and will take the wheel of the next generation Mustang in its first on screen appearance as well.

On screen or on the road, the familiar sight and sound of Mustang has been inspiring fans for nearly five decades. When the original Mustang debuted in 1964, it was still an unknown quantity, but the producers of Goldfinger soon cast a Wimbledon white 1965 convertible in the movie. Five decades later, Mustang is an automotive and pop-culture icon, and Need for Speed director Scott Waugh wasted no time getting the new Mustang into his film.

“I chose Mustang because it is a car that really represents American culture,” said Waugh. “It just represents modern muscle, and it’s iconic, having been in some of the greatest car chase movies of all time.” Chronicling the filmography of Mustang is such an enormous job that it took more than 100 contributors to build out the MustangIMDB.com site created by Stefan Thorarensen, founder and board member of The Icelandic Mustang Club. With more than 3 200 entries, the list grows almost daily.

Reflecting the importance of movies to the Mustang story, Hollywood was selected as one of six venues for the global reveal of the all-new pony car in December. Mustang was driven out onto a pad of wet cement in the forecourt of the historic TCL Chinese Theatre where it had its prints and signature logo preserved for posterity in the cement, just like huma stars.

South African fans can look forward to seeing the completely redesigned and reengineered Mustang on local roads in 2015.