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Ford wants to expand Mustang family

US media is again writing that one of Ford's new sedans could be called Mustang.

As Carscoops reminds us, Ford CEO Jim Farley expressed his desire late last year for Ford to launch a rear-wheel drive sports sedan, potentially based on the company's new Universal EV platform, which should first be the basis for an affordable new electric pickup truck.

Andrew Frick, president of Ford's Blue and Model e divisions, also recently spoke about a potential new sedan, noting that there is a market for such a car.

"There is a percentage of customers who still buy sedans," he told Auto News. "It's a lot smaller than it used to be. It used to be 50 percent, now it's 16, 17 percent. We want to expand the Mustang family as we go along. I think in order to do that, it has to make sense in our portfolio. It has to make sense in the family that we already offer."

That last point is the catch. Frick said any future sedan would have to be truly affordable to justify its place, a requirement he linked to Ford’s broader push toward affordable new vehicles.

Frick’s statements that Ford wants to expand the Mustang family and that the new sedan would have to make sense within the existing family of vehicles confirm long-standing rumors about a Ford Mustang sedan. Ford already offers the Mustang-badged Mach E crossover, so it’s not hard to imagine a Mustang-badged sedan.

Whether that model could be electric or something based on the existing V8-powered Mustang with a manual transmission remains open for now, as Frick gave no indication.

What we do know is that the company showed dealers two additional Mustang concepts in 2024, including a four-door coupe and an off-road variant with all-wheel drive. Then came the “Mach 4” trademark filing in 2025, which only fueled the rumors.

The project, however, has very few known details. Internally, Ford calls the new four-door Mustang "Mach 4," and it will likely be a hybrid, since the traditional Mustang will continue with the V8 engine, while the Mach E remains electric and takes a different approach.