#Ford Mustang 55

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What a difference 55 years makes juxtaposition of Ford Capri Mk 1, 1969 & Ford Capri EV, 2024. Ford of Europe have resurrected the historic Capri nameplate for their new crossover coupé. The original Capri was developed to be a European equivalent of the Ford Mustang. The new Capri, like its sibling model the Explorer, is based on Volkswagen's MEB  platform.

[qs63]

Amestris Military Real world Influence

This is the third of my series of long posts about the Amestrian Military. This is the post for the history nerds. There are plenty of real world references in Fullmetal Alchemist, especially pertaining to the first half of the 20th century. While Amestris and its military have often been compared to Nazi Germany (especially when it comes to the anime), the references in the manga are very diverse. Disclaimer, this is by no means an exhaustive list, there are too many for me to cover in one post, and I'm not a historian. So let me know if there's any reference I might have missed or if I got something wrong!

To see the rest of this meta series check out the Main Post..

Names

Probably the easiest reference to the real world is in the names of the military personnel. Almost all of them are named after military vehicles and equipment, mainly from World War II. Some examples:

Roy Mustang — P-51 Mustang (USA WW2 aircraft)

Riza Hawkeye & Grumman — Northrop Hawkeye E-2 Grumman (USA 60s aircraft)

Maes Hughes — Hughes aircraft series (USA aircraft company)

Black Hayate — Nakajima Ki-84 Hayate (Japanese WW2 aircraft)

Jean Havoc & Henry Douglas— Douglas A-20 Havoc (USA WW2 aircraft)

Heymans Breda — Breda M37 (Italy WW2 Machine gun) or HMS Breda (UK WW2 Yacht)

Kain Fuery — Hawker Fury (UK 30s aircraft) 

Vato Falman — Farman aircrafts series (French aircraft company) 

Armstrong Family — Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (UK WW2 aircraft)

Weapons and equipment 

The weapons used by the military are also based on real world weaponry. Arakawa herself admitted to using references for weapons as well as for the vehicles.[1] Not all of them are a direct copy of a historical weapon, but all of them are at least inspired by one or more of them.

Pistol — Colt M1911A1 (USA 1924)

Hawkeye's pistol. [1]

Colt M1911 & M1911A

Rifle — Mauser Karabiner 98k (Germany WW2)

Hawkeye's Rifle. [1]

Mauser Karabiner 98k rifle

Hand grenade — Stielhandgranate M24 aka the potato mashers (Germany WW2)

Team Mustang's and their weapons. [1]

Stielhandgranate M24

Briggs' Tank

The Briggs' tank isn’t modeled directly after any specific tank, and rather takes inspiration from different WW1 to WW2 tanks. The manga and Brotherhood tanks take after different inspirations, with Brotherhood being more German coded than the manga tank. There's an excellent article in the tanks encyclopedia analyzing the Fullmetal Alchemist tanks if anyone's interested.

Military Cars —

We see a few military cars throughout the story. Once again the cars we see in the manga and Brotherhood are quite different, and they appear to be based on models from the late 1910s to the late 1930s.

The manga’s standard issued military car looks at least partially inspired by the American Ford model A of 1927.

Mustang's military car(manga).[2]

1927 Ford model A.

The Brotherhood art sketches have two different drawings of military cars. The first one, the one we see Mustang use, is based on the French Citroën traction avant 11CV of 1935.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood military vehicle version 1.

1935 French Citroën traction avant 11CV.

The second car seems to be inspired by the Italian Fiat Tipo 5 of the 1910s. Perhaps even inspired by one of the American made Fiat models.

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood military vehicle version 2.

Fiat tipo 55.

Ranks and insignias 

With the exception of the Führer-President, the Amestrian military ranks appear to be a mix of the USA WW2 officer ranks: 

General, 

Lt. General, 

Major General, 

Brigadier General, 

Colonel, 

Lt. Colonel, 

Major, 

Captain, 

1st Lieutenant,

2nd lieutenant;

As well as the Imperial Japan NCO ranks: 

Warrant officer (Special Sergeant Major),

Master Sergeant, 

Sergeant, 

Corporal.

The history of the Imperial Japan  Warrant Officer rank is a bit confusing and complicated. In the 79 years that the Empire lasted, the Warrant Officer rank saw a lot of changes, being its own category at times, a Senior NCO at others.  The NCO Warrant Officers seem to have been specialized Sergeant Majors (also translated as Master Sergeant) that basically functioned as the most senior of the NCO ranks. Aside from this the one modern country, I could find, that has Warrant Officers as NCO is Malaysia.

The rank of Führer-President (大総統 - Daisōtō in Japanese) replaces the rank of General of the army in the USA officer classification. While the English translation is a direct reference to Nazi Germany, the Japanese word is a lot more nuanced. 

The word Daisōtō actually refers to the president of the 1912-1924 Republic of China, and if you Google it, all you will get is images of Bradley himself. The term used for “Führer” is 総統 (Sōtō), without the 大 (Dai) which is instead used in the word president 大統領 (Daitōryō), this is probably the inspiration for the Führer-president title of the official English translation. 

However, Sōtō isn't used to refer just to Nazi Germany's Führer, but rather to any fascist associated head of state. As such Germany's Sōtō is the Fuhrer, but Italy's Sōtō is the Duce (Mussolini).

The effect is technically the same (you still think of Hitler and fascism), but the Japanese word is not a direct translation of Führer, nor a direct reference to Nazi Germany, it's more subtle than the English translation. I imagine Führer was used in English (in absence of a more subtle unifying word) as it is more recognizable to the English speaker than other fascist titles like: Duce, Caudillo, Generalísimo, etc.

The WW2 imperial Japan ranks also included superior private, first class private, and second class private, but they were their own class, called soldiers, below the NCO ranks, and were mainly composed of men serving their conscripted time. This might explain their absence in the Amestrian official ranks as Amestris doesn't seem to have conscription. 

The rank insignias themselves are pretty much a copy of the imperial Japan ones. 

Amestris rank insignias.[3]

Imperial Japan ranks insignias.

Uniform

In terms of the uniform there's not one single reference or perfect match for the design, but the closest to it is probably the WW1 French infantry uniform.

Amestris military uniform. [1]

Early WW1 French uniform

Late WW1 French uniform

Aside from the color of the French uniform, the long skirt, flaps and boots are very similar to the Amestrian uniform.

The Amestrian short jacket itself seems to be inspired by the WW2 USA Ike jacket.

USA WW2 Ike jacket.

Furthermore the white lining of the Amestrian uniform reminds me of the Imperial Japan formal uniform jacket, which is itself Prussian and French inspired.

Imperial Japan Major General formal uniform.

The Briggs uniform is very much WWII winter gear inspired.

Briggs uniform.[3]

Soviet WW2 winter uniform

Finnish WWII sniper.

Out of every uniform variation, the one most German coded is, to no one's surprise, the Führer-president’s. His trench coat looks similar to the WW1 Prussian one.

Bradley in uniform.

WW1 Prussian soldiers.

In general the uniform has a very World War I vibe to it, down to the impractical, decorative parts of it like the skirt. This is an uniform that obviously predates modern warfare, very apt for the time period the story is “set on”. This makes an interesting contrast with the weaponry which seem to be mostly World War II inspired.

Other references

Ishval war of extermination 

First of all trigger warning for genocide and human experimentation. Just skip this section if you're sensible to these topics. 

Just like the Ishvalan are an amalgamation of many cultures and ethnicity, the Ishvalan civil war seems to reference multiple conflicts and events. 

Plenty of comparisons have been made with the Jewish genocide in the hands of the Nazi (and the 03 anime leans especially hard on this). There are also similarities with the Herero war and genocide at the hand of the German empire which just like the Ishval Civil war ended in 1908. Another possible reference is the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman empire, which also involved a minority living at the border of a nation the country was at war with and being suspected of colluding with the enemy. Both the Armenian and the Ishvalan soldiers serving in the army were dismissed, incarcerated, and eventually executed.

Another more clear cut reference made in the Ishval civil war is Mustang's and Knox’s experimentation. This would be a reference to the horrendous experiments done by both the Nazi and Japan's infamous unit 731. Both which included burning people to test treatments and the limits of the human body.

I am sorry to end up on such a hard note, but I think it's best we move on to other — less traumatic — topics.

Source

Fullmetal Alchemist Manga

Chapter 38: a counter attack signal [2]

The Complete art of Fullmetal Alchemist [1]

Fullmetal Alchemist perfect guide 3 [3]

Training Regime post

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[viper-motorsports]

The downtown boulevards hosting the 2024 IMSA Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach CA proved amenable to the N°55 Ford Mustang GT3 after the Proton Competition street machine brought a top five GTD finish.

[widowshill]

top 5 colors! be as specific as possible!

TOP FIVE ANYTHING !

i'm going to be a car enjoyer for a minute and pick from paint chips because there's nothing i like to look at more than pretty classic car colors

1. waterfall blue, from the 1955 ford chips

(55 fairlane victoria with two-tone waterfall and regatta blue .... hiiiii )

2. arcadian blue, from 1966 fords

('66 mustang with arcadian blue with parchment crinkle vinyl top)

3. coral mist, also from the '55 fords

(1956 thunderbird in coral mist with white top)

4. seafoam green, from 1961 chevy's

(1961 seafoam impala)

5. antique bronze, from '66 fords

('66 bronze ford mustang with black top)

[rpmtrish]

RPM Magazine Releases the October 2024 Issue

READ THE FULL ISSUE HERE!!!  TAP THE COVER IMAGE. Here we are into October 2024 already and we all know that means event season is wrapping up and show season is starting.  Check out this incredible issue with more fantastic features and the Yellow Bullet Nationals 2024. FEATURE CAR - GUDFAR - This wild blown alcohol Impala of Todd Haug is a master of deception! It's Saturday night at the local car hang out and you've set up a race for big money against an old 60-something Chevy. This big ole matte black 1963 Impala SS pulls up with an injector hat poking through the hood, and you're thinking easy money. WHITE LIGHTNING - Rick Frye's '73 Chevy Vega Wagon - 800 inches of nitrous snorting big block Chevy says...You're goin' home! Back in the eighties and nineties it was pretty common to see a Chevy Vega rollin' around on the streets and dragstrips of North America. They were small, light and an amazing platform to drop in a small block with nitrous... GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY - Jason Golden's twin turbo SBF Fox body got him hooked on Drag N Drive events. Jason Golden has been drag racing Ford Mustangs since the early 1990's but it's this specific Fox Body that afforded him the opportunity to experience Drag N Drive events and he was immediately hooked! EVENTS YELLOW BULLET NATIONALS - Bullets were flying in this much anticipated mega-event! Without a doubt, the highlight of drag racing on the eastern coast has been the Yellow Bullet Nationals at Cecil Country Dragway in Rising Sun Maryland exclusively on Labor Day weekend. HIDDEN GEM BEST OF BOTH WORLDS - Nick and Patti Mueller's '55 Chevy shows that all out performance doesn't have to come at the expense of all-out cool on the street... #55chevy #ybnats2024 #ybnats #rickfrye #jasongolden #rpmmag #rpmmagazine #rpm25yrs #toddhaug Read the full article

[andreaskorn]

Need For Speed: Payback (PART 03)

(Entwickler: #GhostGames, Publisher: #ElectronicArts 2017)

#NeedForSpeedPayback. Ein Game mit viel Potential und coolen Rennen, aber auch manche Verbesserungen wären möglich.

Fokus im Part 03: Alle Autos sind im Stil des "Ein Toller Käfer" (#LoveBug, Movie, USA 1968) von mir gestaltet.

INHALT DES VIDEOS (Part 03)

00:00 - 00:02 Titelvorspann

00:03 - 02:06 Drift Event (VW Käfer)

02:07 - 04:58 Deliver Krate - Reach Escape Point (Loot Kiste überbringen; VW Käfer)

04:59 - 07:48 Drift Event (VW Käfer)

07:49 - 09:53 Deliver Krate - Reach Escape Point (Loot Kiste überbringen; VW Käfer)

09:54 - 10:19 Garage: VW Käfer

10:20 - 10:46 Garage: Jaguar F-Type Coupe/Drag Car (im Käfer Styl)

10:47 - 11:10 Garage: Bel Air (im Käfer Styl)

11:11 - 11:32 Garage: Ford Mustang (im Käfer Styl)

11:33 - 11:54 Garage: Porsche 911 S (im Käfer Styl)

11:55 - 12:17 Garage: Porsche 2.8 (im Käfer Styl)

12:18 - 12:39 Garage: Mercury Cougar (im Käfer Styl)

12:40 - 12:46 Titelabspann

Dr. Andreas U. Korn, 29.08.2024 + + +

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{ alrrriiight so this bitch is going on a day trip to a really big vintage car show Saturday and I’m compiling a list and I need ideas baby! I’m honestly not sure how many vintage imports/European there will be compared to American. But current I have

69 Stingray

65 Shelby cobra

300 SL Mercedes

Series 1 ford mustang

70s ford ranger

55 Chevy bel air

55 Ford crown

Renault Alpine A110

1958 BMW 507 Roadster Series II

Ferrari 250 GT

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【VLOG】55年前のマスタングと現行車との違いとは(1969 Ford Mustang SportsRoof ep7)

[motorsportverso]

Resultado das 6h de São Paulo, Toyota vence com #8 , e repete feito de 12 anos atrás.

Top 10

1-8-Buemi\Hartley\Hirakawa-Toyota GR010 Hybrid-Toyota GR-236 Laps

2-6-Estre\Loterer\L.Vanthorn-Porsche 963-Porsche Penske Motorsport

3-5-Campbell\Christenssen\Makowiecki-Porsche 963-Porsche Penske Motorsport

4-7-Conway\Cobayshi\De Vries-Toyota GR010 Hybrid-Toyota GR

5-51-Pier Guide\Calado\Giovanazzi-Ferrari 499 P-Ferrari AF Corse +1 Lap

6-50-Fuoco\Molina\Nielssen-Ferrari 499 P-Ferrari AF Cosre +1 Lap

7-38-Button\Hanson\Rasmussen-Porsche 963-Hertz Team Jota-LMH-T+1 Lap

8-93-Vergne\Muller\Jensen-Peugeot 9 x 8 Evo-Peugeot Total Energis +1 Lap

9-15-Marciello\Witmann\D.Vanthorn-BMW M Hybrid V8-BMW M Team WRT +1 Lap

10-35-Lapierre\Vaxivierre\Schumacher-Alpine A424-Alpine +2 Laps

Hypercar Trophy

1-38-Button\Hanson\Rasmussen-Porsche 963-Hertz Team Jota-

235 Laps

2-83-Kubica\Ye\SHWARTZMAN-Ferrari 499 P-AF Corse +1 Lap

3-99-Andlauer\Jani-Porsche 963-Proton Competition +1 Lap

LMGT3

1-92-Malykhin\Sturm\Bachler-Porsche 992 GT3 R-Manthey Pure RX - 214 Laps

2-27-James\Mancinelli\Riberas-Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo-Heart Of Racing

3-95-Pino\Caygill\Sato-Mclaren 720s GT3 Evo-United Autoesports +1 Lap

4-59-Costa\Cottiganham\Saucy-Mclaren 720s GT3 Evo-United Autoesports +2 Laps

5-46-Rossi\Martin\Al Harthy-BMW M4 GT3-Team WRT +2 Laps

6-55-Heriau\Mann\Rovera-Ferrari 296 GT3-Vista AF Corse +2 Laps

7-77-Hardwick\Barker\Zobichon-Ford Mustang GT3-Proton Competition +2 Laps

8-81-Van Roupy\Andrade\Eastwood-Corvette C8 Z06 GT3 R-TF Sport +2 Laps

9-777-Mateu\Bastard\Soresen-Aston Martin Vantage GT3 Evo-D'Station Racing +2 Laps

10-31-Farfus\Galael\Leung-BMW M4 GT3-Team WRT +3 Laps

Pena que a United Autoesports não inverteu as posições entre o 95 e 59 para o Brasileiro Nicolas Costa ir ao podium em terceiro lugar na LMGT3.

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Ford's Electric Vehicle sales surged in the second quarter, followed only to Tesla in the United States

Source: Gasgoo

In the second quarter, Ford’s electric vehicle sales in the United States again surpassed General Motors, ranking second in the U.S. electric vehicle market sales, and is on track to close the gap with Tesla.

Ford Mustang Mach-E; Image source: Ford

In the second quarter of this year, Ford sold 23,957 electric vehicles in the United States, a 61% increase from the same period last year, when total electric vehicle sales were 14,843. Meanwhile, Ford’s sales of hybrid vehicles rose 55 percent year over year. However, sales of internal combustion engine cars were down 5 per cent year on year.

Ford saw double-digit sales growth for several of its electric vehicles. Sales of the Ford F-150 Lightning rose 76.9% to 7,902 units. While new competitors such as the Tesla Cybertruck and the Chevrolet Silverado EV RST have all hit the U.S. market, the Ford F-150 Lightning remained the best-selling electric truck in the U.S. in the first half of the year, with 15,654 units sold.

Second-quarter sales of the Ford Mustang Mach-E were up 46.5% year-over-year to 12,645 units. In the first half of this year, 22,234 units of the Mustang Mach-E were delivered, the best performance ever. Sales of Ford’s E-Transit electric van continued to climb in the second quarter, rising 95.5 percent to 3,410 units from a year earlier.

In the first half of 2024, Ford sold a total of 44,189 electric vehicles in the U.S. market, up 72% from 25,709 in the same period last year.

Ford CEO Jim Farley said the automaker is shifting to smaller, more affordable electric vehicles to close the gap with Tesla and fend off competitors like BYD worldwide. Referring to Americans’ love affair with “larger vehicles,” Farley said smaller electric vehicles are “very important to driving the decarbonisation of American society and the development of electric vehicles.”

Ford’s surge in electric vehicle sales in the US market is enough for it to continue to overtake General Motors. In the United States, GM delivered 21,930 electric vehicles in the second quarter, compared with 38,355 in the first half of 2024.

GM is also ramping up production by introducing new models, with electric models such as the Chevrolet Blazer, Equinox and Silverado coming to the U.S. market. While Tesla did not give specific sales figures by region, its second-quarter electric vehicle sales worldwide exceeded expectations, delivering 443,956 electric vehicles and remaining No. 1 in the U.S. market.

As competition in the U.S. electric vehicle market intensifies, other competitors, including Hyundai and Kia, also set new EV sales records in the second quarter. Hyundai Motor, for example, set a new sales record with its IONIQ 5 model, which sold 18,728 units in the first half of the year. Meanwhile, sales of Kia’s first three-row electric SUV, the EV9, are also climbing.

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 55 years makes juxtaposition of Ford Mustang GT California Special, 1968 & Ford Mustang GT California Special, 2023. The first GT/CS was created by the California Ford Dealers (Ford Dealer Advertising Fund) who planned to sell 5,000 of the special edition but in the event only 4,118 were made.

[the-firebird69]

Rallye du Pays du Gier 2024

We have several kit cars that can do this quite easily and about 30% faster safely

The Ford GT kit car and it's a brand new vehicle but it's on a Ford mustang chassis

The John Cena Corvette we call it the Cena and attract both suck very badly it'll go twice as fast as this Porsche around that corner and s

The dagger modified a little some more closer resemble the Bradley GT2 on a Camaro chassis chassis or mustang chassis to go 35% faster

The Porsche Volkswagen beetle conversion to a 911 we'll go 20% faster than this real Porsche around this bend and s-curve

The Corvette saline will go twice as fast around the corner through the s-curve and we'll rival the Cena in top speed and performance

The coyote will go 35% faster than the Porsche around the bend and through the s-curve and will not rival the Cena in top speed or the saline but will beat the Ford GT

Our son's kit car that is sort of like an old lotus will beat the Porsche by 40% and will arrival the top speed of the saline and it's smaller and it is faster than hell and it is our daughter's car too he says thankfully he got it in

Hera says her Ford GT can be souped up and yes the handling allows it to keep up with the saline and almost the Cena

Are life cycles can keep up with the Cena almost and top speed not close unless you use our drive I wish we won't allow you to have but the top speed will rival the unsuped up for GT

This is Just a glimpse into what we can do. And really what the performance is but you don't have a comparison yeah the scene is 55 to 60% faster around these corners and bends in this Porsche and he's going very fast for water wet day and the difficulty and you have not experienced the vehicle like this most of the super cars today suck compared to it and there's no super car that's existed even race cars can't do it we are making them and they're coming out in five others are making them found out why

Thor Freya

Olympus

Zues Hera

[bugattihipercar]

BUGATTI AND ITS HIPERCARS

Bugatti is a hipercars brand ,founded in France by Ettore Arco Isdoro Bugatti in 1909 . Bugatti hipercars are 1909 Bugatti Type 10, JUN 7 1932 BUGATTI type 55

,SEP 14 1936 BUGATTI type 57 ,MAR 9 1951 BUGATTI TYOE 101,

OCT 20 1991 Bugatti EB 110,MAR 12 2005 BUGATTI Veyron EB,

JUN 12 2010 Bugatti Veyron Super sport ,OCT 29 2014 Bugatti Veyron Venet,SEP 13 2016 Bugatti Chiron ,AGO 2021 Bugatti Bolide .EL MAS RAPIDO ENTRE TODOS ES EL BUGATTI VEYRON SUPER SPORT ALCANZANDO LOS 1200 CABALLOS DE FUEZA QUE SON 430,98 KM /H SIENDO EL CARRO MAS RAPIDO. THE BUGATTI VEYRON SUPER SPORT IS THE FASTEST SUPERCAR CURRENTLY AND HISTORICALLY WITHOUT COUNTING TUNED CARS.

BUGATTI COMPETED IN LEMANS THE COMOETITION DUE TO AN ACCIDENT IN 1934/1945 HIS ACCIDENT .

BUGATTI IS ALSO ONE OF THE MOST LUXURIOUS AND EXPENSIVE HIPERCAR COMPANIES ;COSTING 77 TO 88 MILLON MEXICAN PESOS OR 3 MILLON DOLAR.

BUGATTI COMPETITION IS KOOENISEG ; PAGANI ; MCLAREN; LAMBORGHINI ;DODGE AND IS HIPERCARIS DODGE VIPER ;IS CHEVORLET A IS CORVETTE AND END IS FORD AN IS FORD GT IS FORD MUSTANG GT SHELBY 500.

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