2001 Ford Mustang Review

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Since the Mustang's debut at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, more than 6.9 million of these precocious pony cars have hit the road. They're everywhere; and they're such an integral part of the automotive landscape that driving a Mustang elicits very little special attention anymore.

So it was a singular pleasure to be strafing through traffic last week and note, out of the corners of my eyes, that perhaps I was making a bit of a spectacle of myself behind the wheel of Ford's special-edition Mustang GT, surnamed Bullitt.

I was only 12 years old when Steve McQueen, a.k.a. Frank Bullitt, taught the world that four-wheel aviation was simply a matter of choosing, one, the right car and, two, the right place to abuse it. His chase scene in the '68 Peter Yates movie Bullitt still ranks as the most hair-raising, adrenaline-pumping, adolescent-frenzifying single sequence of motor mayhem that's ever been preserved for posterity. Up and down San Francisco's diabolical hill streets, McQueen launched his '68 Mustang Fastback GT 390 weightlessly into mid-air through intersection after punishing intersection.