StayingFit24_7

That's actually a good logical answer. Nice bro. So maybe I should go for the 2011 Mustang GT instead of the 2009 Mustang GT

JIM5.0

It totally depends on the turns that transportation will take. If the roads become very straight, straighter than Germany's Autobahns, and are smart roads for very high speed electric vehicles, the S197 will not stand a chance on even being on the roads. Thy would be too dangerously slow to drive on these public infrastructures.

Additionally, the days of being behind the wheel might be eliminated in that time: fully automatized piloted high speed vehicles might totally replace all human controlled vehicles. This might be because of several things: Humans are just plumb dangerous behind the wheel. More people in the US die from car wrecks than any disease, even cancer and heart attacks. Driving is just dangerous.
Computers and electronics might have become so advanced that they can control vehicles en masse without any danger to any other vehicles or their occupants around them. Thus 200 MPH vehicles tailgating each other in like a train formation would be possible. Entering and exiting freeways will be a very precise and controlled thing, vehicles missing each other by mere inches, yet no wrecks whatsoever.
Starts and stops at intersections will be controlled just as precisely and organized. No "catapiller" action in the traffic where the front must move, then the middle, then finally the ***. All the vehicles in the formation accelerate as one unit because you would not have to wait for a proper following distance to open up.

If all of these things come to fruition, a human driven car will just be dangerous. So as a drivable road classic? No, not if driving becomes automated and as precisely controlled as I described.
A Museum piece? Yes, for the few that survive the recycle and scrap yards. And the fewer that remain, the more of a collector's classic they will become.

JIM5.0

If it indeed does happen. The flying car and a kid's rocket bike were promised to be in widespread public use as far back as in the 50's. Everyone thought that flying cars would be a reality by the time the '90s rolled around, but that unfortunately never happened. And probably for good reason too.

Human drivers are dangerous. American Drivers are just an example. More people die from car wrecks each year by the thousands. Even diseases do not kill as many people than car wrecks.

If an average American driver is a liability on the roads, just think about what kind of liability he will be in the air? Multiply that by millions and now you have the sky saturated with the same dangerous ground drivers, and sine they are in the air, they cars do not simply stop during a collision, they now have to fall and hit the ground, possible onto someone's home, or even a school.

And there are thousands of drivers who neglect their cars every day, and because of that, they break down and stall. A stalling flying car is not a pleasant though especially when it must fall out of the sky after it dies.
Airplane pilots today go through rather rigorous check lists to make sure their airplanes are air worthy. The average driver is sure to neglect these sort of things, even to the point that it is dangerous.

I personally do not want to see flying cars unless they are completely computer controlled with precise air traffic procedures and no pilots (human errors with millions of flying cars is a bad combination).
Also, flying cars had better be damn reliable; even more reliable than even a kid's dirt bike. They need to be almost 100% maintenance free to account for those millions of drivers who neglect their vehicles.

Unleashedbeast

If any of the S197 body cars will be a classic, you can reserve that title for the 07-09 GT500

RichieCal

I hope were all around in 50 yrs to see what car is gonna be a classic, but odds are alot of us aren't (unless your really young). So buy a car that is gonna give you the most pleasure now!..I'm thinking maybe the 87-93 Fox Mustangs would be a classic one day, but who knows.

Taskiss

I don't know of any car that's 50 years old that isn't a classic. The greatest majority of cars on the road today will have been melted down by then.

65Raven65

Any Mustang that is still running and in good shape 50 years after its production will be a "classic" by definition. Collectible? Perhaps. Worth more than when they were new? Not likely.

There will always be Mustang enthusiasts. The grade schoolers of today that are drooling over the newer Mustangs that we are driving right now, when the grow up and start making their money, they'll start wanting and buying what they grew up with to recapture and relive their youth. Ever talk to an older person about what we consider "classic"? They say back then, they weren't classics, they were just cars. The same thing will happen. And so on and so on.....

otbiker

We've discussed this length at the car club. Here's my take...

Years ago, you could order a car with individual options. You could buy a 68 Impala with a 427, a bench seat, and right hand remote control mirror! You could have a unique ride. These days, with package ordering, its pretty hard to be unique from the factory.

I think the Mustang will always have a following, but at same point, the model WILL go away, just like any other car. I just can't see a 2000 whatever being a classic...

157dB

There will be no petrol or very little of it in 50 years so
it will be a nice conversation piece at best...

Mudflap

No way in hell. The classics will always be the classics as we know them now. The landscape of cars has changed in the past 40 years, so I'd venture to say nothing mass produced like any of these Mustangs will ever be anything but a "cool old car" if any survive 50 years.