Presented by Fabrizio Guigiaro and Jay Mays, this Mustang based one-off is a clever way for Ford to gain some useful publicity for the Mustang brand when the car is approaching its mid-life point and both GM and DaimlerChrysler are speedily preparing production versions of the pony car coupes they presented earlier this year in Detroit as concepts.

The Guigiaro Mustang is similar in many ways to the GG50 Ferrari 612 based one-off shown last year at Tokyo: it has a huge windscreen / glass roof, a fastback profile and open through load area, and adds dynamism with a lower nose and fast screen.

At the front the car has a cleaner DRG (down road graphic) reminiscent of the Mustang concept that previewed the current production car, a subtle but effective surface impression in the lower door side, a very deep section clamshell hood (which thus reduces unsightly shut lines) and a slightly odd concave rear surface with a pair of three vertically orientated lights that reference the original 1964 Mustang.

The interior is quite baroque with fur, polished chrome and unusual detailing - see the decorative gear selector and handbrake. This gives the car an aesthetic very different from the standard Mustang and shows the potential for future Mustangs to offer a broader variety of design packages and thus develop beyond the tightly focussed current macho Mustang image.