The Mustang II was a smashing sales success for Ford in 1974 - It stopped the downward slide of Mustang sales and brought many people into "Mustang". If it weren't for the "II", there might not be a Mustang today.
There were 3 times as many 1974 Mustang II produced as there were 1993 Mustangs.
I'm not making this up - check out the production numbers...
Production YearNumbers
1964 1/2 121,538
1965 559,451
1966 607,568
1967 472,121
1968 317,404
1969 299,824
1970 190,727
1971 149,678
1972 125,093
1973 134,267
1974 385,993
1975 188,575
1976 187,567
1977 153,173
1978 192,410
1979 369,936
1980 271,322
1981 182,552
1982 130,418
1983 120,873
1984 141,480
1985 156,514
1986 224,410
1987 159,145
1988 211,225
1989 209,769
1990 128,189
1991 98,737
1992 79,096
1993 114,228
1994 123,198
1995 165,037
1996 126,483
1997 100,254
1998 170,642
1999 126,067
2000 218,525
2002 143,518
2003 128,101
And, no I don't LIKE the "II", but those are the facts. It's quite possible, that by the time the 2015 Mustang debuts on April 17, 2014, it'll be very different from the Mustang of 2010.
The times they be a changin'...