It’s no surprise that the car community yearns for more Mustangs at this point. Last month, car enthusiasts were given a bit of hope that the off-road Mustang was actually a possibility. Now, Ford has said a few things that are resurrecting hope in the four-door Mustang.
Weirdly enough, the idea of a four-door Mustang has been floating around for a while. Ford built a four-door version in 1965, but didn’t sell it. In the 1980s, an LTD sedan was given the same 5.0-liter V8 engine as the Mustang GT. In 2024, CEO Jim Farley mentioned he was confident that Ford could successfully make Mustangs with different body types, like a four-door, as long as it had the “performance and attitude” of the OG. Then, a few years ago, a four-door Mustang concept was allegedly shown to dealerships, the Mach-4.
Is the four-door Mustang a thing?
In an interview with Automotive News, Ford’s Andrew Frick said that the brand has a strong desire to expand the Mustang lineup. Right now, you can get the Mustang as a coupe or convertible, with a four-cylinder or V8 engine.
There’s also the Mach-E, if that counts. This vehicle has GT and Rally trims, giving enthusiasts hope that the Mustang will also get an off-roading variant. However, it seems like Ford wants to go back to the Mustang’s roots. Well, at least look at a sedan, rather than more SUVs.
“There is a percentage of the customer base that still buys sedans,” Frick said. “It’s a lot smaller than it once was. It used to be 50 percent, now it’s 16, 17 percent. We have a really great Mustang that people consider a car. We look to expand on the Mustang family as we move forward.”
He added that the sedan would have to “make sense” within the current lineup. The one that would make the most sense? The four-door Mustang. It could compete with the Dodge Charger, another four-door performance beast. Makes more sense than the off-road Mustang, to be honest.
Here’s the twist, though. The reborn Charger doesn’t really run a V8 anymore. Dodge swapped the old Hemi for a twin-turbo inline-six it calls the Sixpack, sold in both two-door and four-door form, and the closest thing to a V8 Charger you can buy right now is a six-figure, track-only drag car. So if Ford drops the Mustang’s 5.0-liter V8 into a sedan, it could end up being the V8 four-door muscle car the Charger used to be, and isn’t anymore.
Why a four-door Mustang would actually make sense
Frick, who runs both Ford’s gas and electric businesses as president of Ford Blue and Model e, was careful to say any sedan would have to be cost-effective and fit a family Ford already sells. There’s a very practical reason the Mustang checks both boxes. It’s the only car Ford still builds in the United States, and the Flat Rock plant in Michigan that assembles it has been running half-empty since the Fusion, the Lincoln Continental, and the Mazda6 all disappeared. Adding a second body style to the same line is a lot cheaper than building a car from scratch. The volume wouldn’t hurt either: the Mustang was still America’s best-selling sports car last year, yet Ford sold around 45,000 of them in 2025, a long way from the 122,000 it moved at the nameplate’s 2015 peak.
Of course, this is all just speculation. But it aligns with Ford’s long-term plan to build a lineup of under-$40,000 vehicles. Ford said one of those vehicles will be a sedan, but we haven’t been given any further information. What if that’s the four-door Mustang?
Mustangs are selling well for Ford, though nowhere near the sales levels of years ago. Sedans just aren’t as popular anymore. However, a four-door wouldn’t be that drastic a vehicle to introduce. We’ll have to wait and see if we ever get one. After sitting in the back seat of my boyfriend’s Mustang, though, I can see how a four-door with more back-seat room could be desirable to some. Not if it’s electric, however.
