Yahoo Autos Next-gen Ford Mustang debut rumored for April 2023
The world first saw the sixth-generation (S550) Ford Mustang in late 2013; it's replacement could debut ten years later. Car and Driver surveyed the changes and holdovers we might see on the coming S650 Mustang, writing that the new car could debut on April 17, 2023. If that happens, the seventh-gen Mustang would greet the world exactly 59 years after the first Mustang greeted the 1964 New York World's Fair.
We've seen plenty of spy shots of the next-gen pony car. So far, all of them suggest evolutionary rather than revolutionary styling. The powertrains are thought to be small steps ahead as well. Barring misadventure, the 2.3-liter EcoBoost four-cylinder and 5.0-liter V8 will power the new car. C/D says the four-cylinder could be run up to 320 horsepower — a ten-horse increase over the current base engine. It's not clear if anything's in store for the stock Coyote V8.
The attention-getting news under the hood is the arrival of a hybrid Mustang that Ford has already said will target "delivering V8-like performance with more low-end torque." In 2018, Ford told us the hybrid version would arrive in 2020. Whenever it does show, the phrase "V8-like performance" leads us to believe electrification surgery will be performed on a mill with fewer than eight cylinders.
