Let's face it - this year has been pretty difficult for almost everyone in the old US of A, especially in the past few months as the financial crisis tightens its grip on the world economy. However, even in dire times, there are still many things to be thankful for during Thanksgiving 2008.
As Americans buckle up and drive out to buy the estimated 45 million turkeys consumed every Thanksgiving, we can certainly be thankful for one timely miracle: the price of gasoline. It should come as a pleasant surprise - especially to those of us who certainly don't drive our cars "efficiently" - that gas prices have dropped dramatically recently, and we should all be thankful for that. Of course, I wouldn't expect my tank- full of $1.39 gas - to go on forever, but these prices will be nice while they last.
More important perhaps to StangPlanet readers is something that - in the hard times of today - many would have not anticipated happening: the return of the pony car. What better way is there to celebrate Thanksgiving than to have official images of the 2010 Mustang GT imprinted in your head as you pass a Dodge Challenger on the way to a grocery store, only after passing a billboard for the Chevy Camaro (to be rolled off the line this coming spring.)
Nostalgic to the era of Bullitt and a time when affordable performance was in everyone's eye, the pony cars are on their way back in style, and we all know that the Mustang deserves a lot of the credit. Some may say that the resurgence of the Challenger and Camaro just means more competition for the Stang, and I that's a good thing. If Chrysler and Chevy are making Ford sweat, it means their engineers need to work harder to make the Mustang even better for us.
Even with oil consumption growing unpopular, the pony car lives on thanks to readers like you, and will probably continue to live on into the oil-less era.
Family, friends, turkey, and Ford Mustangs - things we can all be thankful for this year. Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
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