USED CARS
James Ruppert
KICKING TYRES
A tidy V6 fifth-gen Ford Mustang could be yours for £12k
I get a tremendous amount of electricity car
propaganda that I can easily avoid, but what is heartening is that the fine people at Drive Electric have selected the most polluting cars for me. I should be appalled, but it seemed to identify some of the best and a few of the worst ICE cars you can buy.
Ford Mustangs are magnificent, and a V8 with average annual CO2 emissions of 2598kg would apparently need 118 trees planting in order to offset its terribleness. I’m tempted to write about these every week: such a lot of original Pony car for such reasonable money, but that may be because I’ve started looking at the previous, fifth-generation (S197) one. Sometimes they caught fire, but when not in flames they looked and drove the part. A 2007 4.0 V6, with just the one private owner (and two fewer cylinders than it ought to have), caught my attention at £11,995. The mileage was mid-50k and it looked rather wonderful – I’d say better than the current one. Great history and, of course, you would be driving from the passenger seat, but that’s fine.