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Follow the automotive business long enough and everything that’s old becomes new again.
Since the reintroduction of the Chevrolet Camaro SS as a 2010 model, the old Ford-versus-Chevy “pony-car” wars have escalated to insane proportions, with the 2013 Chevrolet ZL1 and Ford’s Mustang-based Shelby GT500 leading the way. And for 2014 there will be an road-race-ready Camaro Z28 and an all-new 2015 Mustang is in the works.

Indeed, for muscle-car lovers, these are the good-old days and they just keep on getting better, or so it seems.

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Already, the buzz is feverishly building about the next-generation Ford Mustang, which will be introduced next year as a 2015 model.
The fact that the new Mustang is a hot automotive topic is hardly surprising. When Ford introduced the original Mustang at the New York World’s Fair on April 17, 1964, it was an immediate sensation, blowing past even the most optimistic sales estimates. Dealers ordered 22,000 Mustangs the day it was introduced, and in its first 18 months of production, Ford sold more than a million of them.

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It’s a story you couldn’t make up if you wanted to, because absolutely no one would believe it. The co-star of one of the cheesiest TV detective shows ever made heroically tries to rescue the last car of arguably the greatest contemporary American writer of the 20th century. And he has to go to an embargoed country to do it.
But that’s the basis of “Cuban Soul,” an upcoming documentary about actor David Soul’s attempt