Facts:
The first year the mustangs were availble sale the projected sales were an estimated 100,000 units. They ended up selling 318,000 units which would set a record for the most cars ever sold on a deput. A 1965 Shelby Mustang just recently sold for 875,000 at a auction. The mustang with the highest sticker price was the 2008 Shelby Mustang GT500K of 82,000. Only 571 of these cars were availble for sale in the US. In 1965 the Mustang won the Tiffany Gold Medal for excellence in American design, which was the first automobile to win the award. In 2005 it was runner-up for The North American Car of the Year. In 2005 it also won Canadian Car of the Year. Some of these awards were firsts for any American automobile.

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