Under new management Ford looks to shift focus to electric SUVs

As it stated in Siemens staged an unlikely (and unprecedented) marriage between classic cars and autonomous cars at this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed. It sent a custom-built 1965 Ford Mustang retrofitted with a full suite of autonomous technology to compete in the annual event's famous hill climb. "Unfortunately, the power steering went during [the] afternoon hill climb – purely a mechanical issue rather than an autonomous, tech-related one. If it's repaired in a timely manner, Siemens' autonomous Mustang will race up the Goodwood hill twice a day through July 15. In recent years, the hill climb has morphed into a stage where companies from all over the automotive spectrum strut their stuff.

Self-Driving 1965 Ford Mustang Plans Attack On Goodwood Hillclimb

Now Siemens is looking to remove all of that with a self-driving 1965 Ford Mustang that it plans to run up the famous Goodwood Hillclimb this year. First of, all, the Mustang is keeping its V8 and will still be able to be driven by a human, if you so desire. A particular challenge, they say, has been honing the sensitivity of the handling control to navigate the course. RoboRace will be competing up the hill this year, too, so that covers that side of things. If anything, this project gives me a little hope that classics may find a way to integrate into a self-driving future.

Ford unveils 700-hp wide-body Eagle Squadron Mustang at Goodwood

as mentioned in Ford took the covers off of a special-edition one-off Mustang mid-July at the Goodwood Festival Speed, revealing the Eagle Squadron Mustang GT built to honour the American pilots who served with the U.K. Royal Air Force's Eagle squadrons during the Second World War. The fastback Mustang wears a camoflage paint job, an RTR carbon-fibre wide-body kit and a 700-horsepower 5.0-litre V8. The paint scheme is reminiscent of the three Eagle squadrons the RAF flew over the fields of Goodwood, as well as on the British and French coasts, during the war. Ford has sponsored the EAA AirVenture for 20 years as of 2018, and has built 11 custom one-off vehicles to sell to raise money for the Young Eagles. Vaughn Gittin Jr. himself will take the Mustang up the Festival's famed Hillclimb, while Driving plans to take a closer look at the Eagle Squadron Mustang as part of our EAA AirVenture coverage in late July.

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