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Team Sky Ford Mustang (picture via Team Sky on Twitter).jpgFord Mustang joins Team Sky fleet for Tour de France
Team Sky’s Tour de France campaign next month will have the support of one of the most iconic cars in the history of motoring – the Ford Mustang.
Earlier today, the team tweeted two pictures of the vehicle in its black and blue livery, saying “all will be revealed soon!”
Joining us at the Tour de France this July - say hello to the mighty @TeamSky @FordEu Mustang! A thing of beauty pic.twitter.com/7kPuwgjkZC
— Team Sky (@TeamSky) June 23, 2016
We're adding even more horsepower to our #TDF2016 lineup. All will be revealed soon! @FordEu #OpenRoad pic.twitter.com/LjoIbVaysV
— Team Sky (@TeamSky) June 23, 2016
Ford replaced Jaguar as a team sponsor at the start of 2016, and our best guess is that the Mustang will be rolled out on the two time trial stages, as Team Sky has previously done with the Jaguar F-Type.
Launched in 1964, the Mustang featured in the famous car chase in the Steve McQueen film Bullitt, as well as in the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever.
It’s also the subject of the Wilson Pickett song Mustang Sally, which got a new lease of life in the 1990s when it was covered on the soundtrack of the film The Commitments.
The sixth generation of the Mustang was launched last year and for the first time includes a right hand drive version for markets such as the UK where vehicles are driven on the left.
Simon joined road.cc as news editor in 2009 and is now the site’s community editor, acting as a link between the team producing the content and our readers. A law and languages graduate, published translator and former retail analyst, he has reported on issues as diverse as cycling-related court cases, anti-doping investigations, the latest developments in the bike industry and the sport’s biggest races. Now back in London full-time after 15 years living in Oxford and Cambridge, he loves cycling along the Thames but misses having his former riding buddy, Elodie the miniature schnauzer, in the basket in front of him.
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- Geordiepeddeler 3 hours 6 min ago
Cycling infrastructure does not force drivers to break the law, drivers are the reason they break the law, no one else.
- chrisonabike 3 hours 18 min ago
Ah but taking pictures of things to defy the man (avoid a fine) is righteous. Taking pictures of people to grass on them to the cops (perhaps...
- ktache 5 hours 8 min ago
But getting paid for it is the very definition of professional....
- ktache 5 hours 17 min ago
Never had a Shimano QR fail on me. They just work. And the top end ones look good too....
- Backladder 6 hours 3 min ago
If you're only looking at the guy in front of you then you're going to crash whatever brakes you have, you need to look beyond them to anticipate...
- jaysa 6 hours 29 min ago
As a woman, this works great for me! My chain broke once, and a kind guy stopped with a chain breaker and sorted it all out for me. We stopped at a...
- andystow 7 hours 20 min ago
Same. I also have gone through a bunch of their tyres, and only the extralight disappointed (torn sidewall) but the standards are fantastic....
- chrisonabike 9 hours 17 min ago
Indeed - but it's no more inconsistent than our current road design - very often UK high streets are "for shopping" and also a busy through route....
- mike the bike 10 hours 48 min ago
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"We're adding even more horsepower to our #TDF2016 lineup. "
How very green of you.
Want one........
The Mondeo's are practical, this is marketing sweetie!
Shame something that isn't a total throwback wasn't picked up as sponsor instead. LIke a Tesla but with artificial engine sound as they're a bit quiet for these sort of close encounters.
I'm a sucker for the sound of a V8 but it's not the best choice of team car.
It would sound pretty awesome if the rest of the teams got in on it though. It'd be like Mad Max Fury Road out there!
Hmm, well I wouldn't mind something a bit more practical than the wife's Mazda for the odd occasion when I want to transport a bike.
Right lads....who has the smallest disk?
We need someone to drive the new motor...
The antithesis of cycling. Horrible, inelegant, over-powered, fuel-guzzling tanks driven by fat fucks that over-compensate for their lack of athleticism by shouting about their right of way. And I'm a Sky fan.
Can a gas-guzzler like that make it through an entire Tour de France stage? Can it fit down narrow French country roads? Those sorts of vehicles are usually the ones that roar up behind you on single-track sunked lanes, with the driver revving their ridicuously over-powered engines, expecting you to somehow vanish into thin air.
Yup, cycling is certainally a green mode of transport
We've got a customer with one of those. They are terrible at tight corners and he says he's got very practiced at the 15-point turn in a car park...
Like "dodgy" said, it's going to make for some comical moments on the tight Alpine switchbacks!
They don't go around corners too well, or so the petrol heads say.
Expecting to see this dangling off some tree on the descent from the Joux Plane.
I drove one in the US last year. A pig to drive. Also, hard to see how the bikes are going to go on top.