2015 Mustang Earns Highest Vehicle Safety Rating From National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration awards the all-new 2015 Mustang a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in its New Car Assessment Program
• All-new Mustang has twice as many airbags, twice as many peripheral crash sensors and additional pretensioning safety belt technology compared to the outgoing model
• The new Mustang is the first car to offer four-, six- and eight-cylinder engines that each produce at least 300 horsepower – a 304-horsepower 3.7-liter V6, a more powerful 5.0-liter V8, and an all-new 325-horsepower 2.3-liter EcoBoost® engine

  DUBAI, UAE, February18, 2015–The 2015 Ford Mustang received a top safety rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The 2015 Mustang earned a five-star Overall Vehicle Score in NHTSA’s New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) testing. The New Car Assessment Program is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s evaluation program for new vehicle designs established to test for performance against safety threats. The all-new 2015 Mustang received five stars in the frontal crash test, five stars in the side crash test and five stars in the rollover crash test. “The new Mustang was built from the ground up,” said Carl Widmann, Mustang chief engineer.  “It is more refined, more powerful and it has everything people have come to love about Mustang for the past 50 years.” The all-new 2015 Mustang is currently arriving in Ford dealerships across the Middle East. Safety, semi-autonomous and driver assist features The 2015 Mustang has a myriad of standard safety features aimed at protecting drivers and occupants, as well as semi-autonomous and driver assist features that are new to the vehicle. Features on the 2015 Mustang include an all-new inflatable airbag restraint design, double the number of airbags in the vehicle, a robust package of peripheral crash sensors and enhanced exterior lighting. The 2015 Ford Mustang also offers innovative semi-autonomous technologies including Adaptive Cruise Control. Driver assist features include BLIS® and Cross-Traffic Alert. The sleek new design of Mustang fastback and convertible is backed up by world-class performance from a range of available engines, including a new turbocharged 325 hpEcoBoost® 2.3-liter and an upgraded 5.0-liter V8 with more than 420 hp. In addition to state-of-the-art connectivity systems, Mustang features available track apps, launch control and more.