An interview with Jim Owens, Ford Performance marketing manager

Joaquin Ruhi

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About a week ago, I was very hastily recruited to replace a colleague in attending the press preview of the 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 in Las Vegas. My written impressions of the vehicle appear in the Spanish-language QueAutoCompro website, and, though I can't vouch for how it will translate into English, you may want to run this link through Google Translate, primarily for my driving impressions on page 2:

https://queautocompro.com/2020-ford-mustang-shelby-gt500-el-ponycar-al-maximo/

On these press junkets, an English-language video interview is always a must-do for me, and I've shared some here with marketing folks from Kia and Hyundai. Now, I did a particularly fun and informative one with Jim Owens, Ford Performance marketing manager, who is the ideal link between the larger Ford corporate world and the boutique "skunkworks" that is the Shelby American operation:

 
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The GT500 looked like a blast on the speedway...sad that Ford discontinued the Fiesta and Focus, because it lost the STs and the FoRS models.