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Ford once planned to race fiberglass-bodied Mustang touring cars

Tucked away on page nine of the May 9, 1964 issue of Competition Press and Autoweek is an intriguing little story: “FIA Rejects Ford Bid for Homolgation [sic].” At the time, the Mustang had just made its world debut, but Ford was already scheming to fold the car into its “Total Performance” campaign. The automaker apparently proposed to do so with a fleet of crazy fiberglass-bodied touring cars. According to Competition Press, Ford tried to get the new Mustang classified as a touring car for international racing.

Hyundai lures Toyota's Michael O'Brien to head U.S. product planning

Hyundai named Michael O'Brien vice president of product and corporate planning--an influential position that has been vacant since John Krafcik became CEO in late 2008, the company announced on Tuesday. O'Brien, 55, spent the last 14 years at Toyota Motor Corp.'s U.S. sales division as a manager within the corporate planning division.

One Lap of the Web: Life with an E28 M5, Senna's NSX and the taxi of the future

-From our friends at Motoring Con Brio comes this report on BMW E28 M5 ownership. Early observations suggest that the car likes to go fast and burn a ton of gas in the process. -Bring a Trailer has an eBay listing for a Honda NSX that was supposed to have been gifted to Ayrton Senna by his sponsor Antonio de Almeida Braga.