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On 2016-01-25, Capitol wrote:

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It now seems almost impossible to buy a larger capacity cheap and
cheerful petrol engined new car.


http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/newmustang

Fails on the cheap and cheerful.



It's all relative. £34,000 for a car with a 5L V8 is "cheap and
cheerful"
by some standards.

That new mustang is nothing like cheap and cheerful in its class.

And it's very uncomfortable and crap to look at, just like the
current Camaro.

Yebbut: the marketing department have done an outstanding job on making
it (and its new stablemates) look "cool" and "must-have", so they'll
sell enough.

How much does does this selling a new Mustang in the UK have to do with
the fleetingly transitory low fuel price? I think the car industry --
more than anyone else -- know the value of the adage of there being one
born every minute. In fact imho they completely depend on it.

J.