St. Patrick's Day & A Green Ford Future

St. Patrick's Day is here, and so is a new color for Ford's pony car, the Mustang.

Happy St. Patrick's Day! While you're enjoying your green beer, Ford has been brewing up some major plans for the future. If you're feeling lucky and like you need more green in your life, rejoice! Ford is rolling out a new color for the Mustang: "Need For Green". Yay, or nay? 

Personally, I'm a fan. My mother had a couple of green cars, and it seems to be a dying hue in a sea of white and black rides these days. Save the variety!

The Future is Big (and Green)

A Mustang Shelby GT500 is likely to pack 700+ HP I'm
guessing in this day and age... I smell competition brewing.

In case you think Ford is just making their cars look bright and shiny, you've got another think coming. Because the blue oval automaker has also unveiled plans to release an onslaught of new eco-friendly and fully revamped popular models over the next several years. One of those cars will be a new Shelby GT500! Could we have a legitimate Hellcat challenger (slight pun intended) on the horizon?

Other new vehicles will mostly be SUVs.  Among these new SUVs of course will be the announced Bronco. But wait! Another "off-road capable" SUV will be offered as well, in addition to a new Escape and Explorer around the 2020 model year. To stir interest even more, just in case you're becoming crossover jaded, Ford has confirmed plans to offer an ST version of the next Explorer, possibly on a rear-wheel drive platform. Perhaps crossovers can be fun after all. We shall see...

And there's no mention of a new Fusion from what I can tell, in case you're interested.

You've Reached Tech Support

On top of all this, Ford will continue to develop new technology for autonomous driving and will make a suite of driver assistance features (blind spot monitoring, autonomous braking, etc.) dubbed "CoPilot360" standard on nearly every car by 2020. They're a little slow on the last part, as Toyota has already beat them to the punch with "Safety Sense P" on many models... But better late than never! 

Ford also plans to trim the number of global vehicle platforms they use down even further, and as previously mentioned, hybridize ALL of their lineup, including the Bronco and Mustang. As you see, they are taking their "One Ford" strategy quite seriously... And I approve. I like what they're doing with their future products, although their current lineup is definitely aged.

WHEW!!! That's a lot of info. Are you a Ford fan and are you pumped? There's certainly a lot to look forward to, as Ford rolls toward a bright green, SUV future.

(Oh, and shoutout Michigan State's men's basketball team in the NCAA tournament today of all days, because... GO GREEN!)

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