While watching a movie the other day, I noticed that it had a few Ford Mustangs in it.

Since I am a Mustang fan and have been for many years I started doing some research and have found that there are over 300 movies with a Ford Mustang in the movie. I am sure that there are more movies out there that I may have missed in this list, but I managed to find over 300. If you know of any movies I have missed, please /msg me.

The Mustang has always been a popular car for many reasons. The price of a new mustang back in the 1960's made it appealing to a wide range of buyers; it was cheap enough that the average person could afford one without breaking their budget. The sports car enthusiast could get into racing fairly cheap with a Mustang. This meant they could afford a muscle car, and that left them money to add high performance parts to their Mustang. There was an article in an old HotRod Magazine that my father had, in the article it described how people would go rent a Mustang GT 350 for a week from Hertz rental cars, then they would take them and put roll bars in them, and race them at road rally races around the country. They would then cut the roll bars out, and return them to Hertz.

Today's Mustangs are smaller and more streamlined that its older brothers from the 1960's and 1970's, More mustangs are sold with 6 cylinder engines today than ever before, but today's fuel injected 6 cylinder engines produce as much torque and horsepower as some of the older 8 cylinder engines. The mustang is still a very sporty looking car, and is still a very popular car with a variety of age groups.

Some movies feature the Mustang as the main character of the movie. In Gone in Sixty Seconds a Nicolas Cage remake of the 1974 movie, Cage's character nicknamed "Memphis" has to steal 50 cars in 24 hours. The real plot seems to center around the one car that has eluded him many times. The car that eludes him is nicknamed "Eleanor"; it is a 1967-1968 Ford Shelby Mustang GT500 KR. The Shelby GT-500 KR was a stock Ford Mustang that has been extremely modified by Carroll Shelby, who is arguably the custom car king.

Gone in Sixty Seconds is in my opinion the movie most famous for having a Mustang in it. A partial list of other movies that have a Mustang in them include:

avalyn says re Mustangs in movies: Mitchell's also got a Mustang in it (an orange one!), used for nefarious purposes to run the unlikable protagonist off the road.