Bullitt Mustang: Ford's filthy hot rod

The Ford Mustang, America’s classic muscle car, is still bad to the bone. Sarah Moore reports

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It is now 50 years since the Ford Mustang as good as stole the show in the Steve McQueen cult movie Bullitt, and America's best-known muscle car is still just as synonymous with the movie as the god-like film star, says James Mills in The Sunday Times. The recipe for a Bullitt Mustang is "straightforward": use the same dark highland green paint seen on the car that ripped around the hills of San Francisco in the movie; tune the V8 engine; fit some black-painted alloy wheels; beef up the suspension; create a bespoke interior; and apply a smattering of Bullitt logos about the place.

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Sarah is MoneyWeek's investment editor. She graduated from the University of Southampton with a BA in English and History, before going on to complete a graduate diploma in law at the College of Law in Guildford. She joined MoneyWeek in 2014 and writes on funds, personal finance, pensions and property.