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For many Germans, their only glimpse of American muscle has been David Hasselhoff’s Baywatch-era abs. But the wet hot Ford Mustang is changing all that. After a half-century as strictly a Yankee proposition, the Mustang and its tire-smoking ethos is finally being exported overseas. That includes Germany, where the Ford pulled a shocker in March by becoming the nation’s best-selling sport coupe.
The Mustang found 780 buyers in what a German transport agency dubs the Sportwagen class. That nipped one of Germany’s own automotive icons, the Porsche 911, with 752 sales; the Audi TT followed with 708, and the Mercedes E-class coupe with 532. (Apropos of these figures it might be helpful to know that "verräter” is German for “traitor,” by the way). For 2016, the Mustang trails only the Audi for the sport-coupe title, at 1,822 versus 2,299.
