It may be over, but nothing like a reminder of what was, and what is to come - Ford's new video of the 2015 Mustang has the pony car horsing around with Ordos horsemen in Mongolia as well as doing drifts on empty Chinese highways, as part of a tribute to the recent Year of the Horse.
The chosen pony is a manual 5.0 litre GT, with with Formula Drift's Vaughn Gittin Jr - the man behind the Mustang RTR - at the wheel. No RTR on call, but the Coyote 5.0 litre V8's 435 hp at 6,500 rpm and 542 Nm at 4,250 rpm is more than enough for the job at hand.
The 5.0 GT features an electronic line-lock, which locks the front brakes and releases the rear ones for a controlled burnout, but chances are Gittin wouldn't have had a need for that.
China is of course one of the first export markets to get the sixth-generation Mustang, and primary models for the global market will be the 2.3 litre EcoBoost and 5.0 litre GT, with transmission choices being a Ford/Getrag MT-82 manual or a six-speed SelectShift auto with paddle shifters, the ZF-based 6R80.
The S550 Mustang is set to make its market debut in Malaysia late this year. We've driven it - read our US test drive report on the Ford Mustang 2.3 EcoBoost and 5.0 GT.
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