1. Cultural Impacts of the American Automobile: 1946-1974
... price led to high sales during the baby boom's coming-of-age. This trend was touched off by Lee Iacocca's Fords Mustang in 1964, introduced at the 1964 New York World's fair and the origin of the term "pony car."" The Mustang, in the wake of the appearance of a market for smaller cars, combined a 260-cubic-inch engine and a four-speed transmission ... success can clearly be seen in the production numbers. Ford would sell half a million Mustangs in the eighteen months after its introduction, leading other automakers to follow suit. The Ford Mustang would be followed by the Plymouth Barra...
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