Terrible Cars that Weren’t Actually Terrible: The Ford Mustang II

It is widely accepted that the 1974-78 Ford Mustang II represented a low point in Mustang history. No question, the Pinto-based subcompact was a terrible Mustang—but was it a terrible car? We say no. Like the AMC Gremlin of a few years before, the Mustang II was really a much better car than history remembers.
The Incredible Expanding Mustang
From 1967 onward, the Mustang had a problem: it was getting bigger and fatter. At a 1968 Ford stockholder meeting, Anna Muccioli, an artist who owned