So now we have "Ground Speed" in the dash display?

[generaltso]

Pilots have to deal with airspeed and ground speed as the aircrafts speed while in the air is affected by the wind. So Pilots need both. But whats up with ground speed in a car??

It's just meant to be cheeky since it was named after a plane. And since the speed that it's showing really is the ground speed, it's not wrong.

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[Mach1E]

It's just meant to be cheeky since it was named after a plane. And since the speed that it's showing really is the ground speed, it's not wrong.

Is it named after the plane, or are the car and plane named after the same horse?

 

[sockmeister]

Noticed this today. What gives?

As everyone pointed out... It's a Mustang thing

 

[sockmeister]

Is it named after the plane, or are the car and plane named after the same horse?

Horse > Plane > Car

 

[Mach E JT]

My 11 GT500 did not say “ground speed”. I had to go back and double check old pictures to be sure but it’s definitely not there.

 

[HuntingPudel]

Is it named after the plane, or are the car and plane named after the same horse?

I am pretty sure that Ford would not have named their car after an aircraft that was designed and built by a General Motors division. There is a reason the aircraft had an Allison engine in its first few incarnations and it didn’t get the Rolls-Royce designed Merlin until a license could be worked out with Packard. ?‍?

 

[Mach1E]

Horse > Plane > Car

Had to google. I guess it’s not so simple. But with a bunch of dudes in the room coming up with name ideas, the real answer is probably “both.”

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66494/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-ford-mustang

“
Quickly nicknamed the “Pony,” the Mustang name has a surprisingly complicated history. According to designer John Najjar, he suggested the name Mustang after the World War II P-51 Mustang fighter plane. That was rejected because it was too "airplaney," so he pitched the name again as a type of horse, and everyone loved it.


But Lee Iacocca remembers it differently. He says there was a trend of naming cars after animals, so an advertising consultant gave them a list of mostly animal names for the car. And one of them was Mustang. Whichever version is true, according to Ford Motor Company, other names considered for the car as it was developed in 1962-63 were Cougar, Torino, Allegro, and Avventura. “

 

[Maquis]

I always thought it was simply to pay tribute to the aircraft of the same name, not that the car was named after the plane.??‍

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