Producing a universal Mustang, though, is more complex than producing your average sedan. Balancing the demands of power-junkie buyers in the U.S., steering-and-handling obsessives in Europe and left-side drivers in nations such as the U.K. and India is a risky technical challenge. And Ford is making the job even more difficult by trying to position the Mustang as its global flagship, a car to broadly define its brand much the way the 911 defines Porsche and the Beetle once did VW. "In a lot of car companies there is one car that cuts to the emotional core for everybody," explains COO Mark Fields. "For us, that's the Mustang."
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