2024 Ford Mustang to be revealed in September, sound teaser released

UPDATE: Audio teaser hits social media

In the lead-up to the new 2023 Ford Mustang's September 15 unveiling, a new sound bite has been posted to Twitter by the official @FordMustang account.

Although the accompanying video clip shows lightning streaking across the surface of the iconic pony logo, the audio makes it clear we shouldn't worry about that effect representing any sort of electrification.

Check out the clip below, and scroll down to catch up on the rest of this story.

The story to here

July 29: September debut for new Mustang 🐎

Ford boss Jim Farley has confirmed the new-generation 2024 Ford Mustang will make its global debut at the returning Detroit motor show.

Set to be held in September, the event will be the first major motor show in Detroit since before the COVID-19 pandemic.

The new Mustang will be unveiled on September 14, which in Australian time will be sometime after midnight on September 15.

As expected, the new Mustang will continue to be offered with a manual transmission, as hinted with Farley's canny use of the popular #SaveTheManuals hashtag on Twitter.

Blessedly, a V8 engine will also feature, with versions of the current 5.0-litre eight and 2.3-litre turbo four mills expected to carry over – although that specific detail is still to be confirmed.

April: Images of new Mustang surface online

Images of the 2024 Ford Mustang may have already leaked, well ahead of the car’s official debut – rumoured to be set for March 2023.

A grainy picture of the new-generation Mustang surfaced on the Mustang7g forums and on Facebook, correlating with another image of the iconic Ford coupe published online this week.

Ford Authority showed pictures of the new model with minimal camouflage, along with interior photos of what appears to be a pre-production evaluation vehicle.

The latest leaked image reveals the Mustang’s front-end look, with what may be a bonnet vent, LED headlights, and a larger grille and bumper ducts for increased airflow.

“The next generation [Mustang] that we’re working on now will be launching next year, in 2023, and it’s going to be great,” Ford Performance director Ali Jammoul told Wheels recently during a visit to Australia.

Jammoul, who overlooks the company’s performance portfolio as well as icons such as the F-150 and Bronco, suggested the time between the car’s unveiling and customer deliveries would be short, and hinted at the Mustang’s path to electrification.

3

“I don’t think the V8 is going away soon; at some point with electrification and with BEV [battery electric vehicles] you can do a lot more in terms of performance and that might be the time that V8s start to phase out. But I see Mustang continuing to carry the V8 for now.”

But while Jammoul was positive on the V8’s place in the foreseeable future, he said the timeline for the manual transmission was limited.

“You know, eventually it’s going be phased out, right?” Jammoul said.

“But as long as there’s a market for it and customers still want that higher performing feel, it’ll stay, but clearly you can deliver a lot more [from an automatic], especially from EVs [electric vehicles].

3

"When we go to an EV strategy the immediate instant torque you have you can never match with a manual gearbox.

“So I can’t tell you the manual gearbox is here to stay, but it’s clear there will be more electrification, and manual gearboxes will not be around in the future.”