The first driving impressions of the 2015 +Ford Motor Company Mustang are finally going live 

Having been lucky enough to drive one a few months ago, I'm not surprised that so far +Road & Track and +Car and Driver Magazine like it.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2015-ford-mustang-gt-first-drive-review?

One of the last Mustang related things I worked on before leaving Ford earlier this summer was a story on the design evolution of the newest version

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/products/cars/mustang/2015-mustang-press-kit.html#design-taking-the-all-new-ford-mustang-from-sketch-to-production

Over the course of 2013, we published a series of sketch to production stories on each of the first five generations of Mustang in the run-up to the 50 year celebrations. Each of those can be found on this page: https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2013/08/02/mustang.html

Here are some of the sketches that emerged during the design competition for the 2015 model. I just wish that my former colleagues had chosen to share some of the other sketches to show off ideas that didn't make the cut. ?

Having spent some time working on the PR side of the auto industry, I can tell you that almost every press photo that gets published gets some serious photoshop time

That said, at least at the companies I worked with, they don't take away parts that are actually there as Apple seems to have done. Because many of the photos released are shot with early prototypes or preproduction vehicles, they have to add stuff that is missing. ?

Despite not having utility in the name like SUVs, the minivan is easily the most utilitarian vehicle on the road

It's also unapologetically not an #unminivan. 

The Dodge Caravan turned 30 this year as the Ford Mustang turned 50. You'd be surprised how much shared DNA they have https://sam.abuelsamid.com/2014/09/15/brothers-from-different-mothers/?

Hail and airplanes are apparently not a good mix?

The next big technology addition to smartphones could be vehicle-to-pedestrian communications

At the ITS World Congress in Detroit last week, +General Motors, +Honda and +Qualcomm each demonstrated V2P capabilities and how it could potentially save lives. V2X (which includes vehicle to vehicle, vehicle to infrastructure, vehicle to pedestrian, vehicle to cyclist) is based on a technology known as dedicated short-range communications (DSRC).

DSRC is based on WiFi but it runs on a band of spectrum at 5.9 GHz set aside by the FCC for this purpose. The standard for DSRC is that short messages with information like speed, position, heading, braking and more get sent 10 times per second enabling other vehicles within 300 meters to be more aware of what is happening outside the visual range of the driver. 

Because DSRC is based on WiFi, it's fairly straightforward to extend it to existing WiFi enabled devices like smartphones. Qualcomm is working on optimizing its mobile WiFi chipsets to support DSRC without killing the battery. The big advantage is that drivers can be more aware of pedestrians and cyclists, potentially avoiding thousands of deaths and injuries every year. ?

I had a chance to go for a ride with +General Motors researcher Pri Mudalige in the EN-V 2.0 concept during the ITS World Congress in Detroit this week

EN-V 2.0 is the new 4-wheeled followup to GM's 2010 autonomous urban mobility concept?

At the ITS World Congress in Detroit, +***** is showing a police intercepter with a Tesla-style 12-inch touch screen display. Coming soon to civilian Fords??

+General Motors CEO Mary Barra jus announced that 2017 +Cadillac cts will be the first car with V2V technology and the new +Cadillac flagship at the same time will debut semi-autonomous super-cruise capability ?

My thoughts on the look of the new 2016 +Mazda USA MX-5?