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The figures show a global sales increase of 6 percent in comparison to 2015. The company have also stated they sold roughly 45,000 Mustangs last year which generated a 101 percent increase.

Ford Mustang marketing manager, Mark Schaller has said, “The legacy of Mustang continues to grow, and in places it never reached before,”

These developments are what former CEO Alan Mulally hoped for when he planned to sell the Mustang in Europe back in 2012. It didn’t take long for Ford to start selling the car overseas which have ultimately been the main income and changes in the car’s global growth.

However, these figures only represent 2 percent of the approximate 6.6 million vehicles Ford had sold worldwide in 2016. Therefore, the car is nowhere near achieving its record sales growth. The record dates back as far as 1996 when the company sold 607,000.

Although, in comparison to the 60’s, the Mustang is now sold in approximately 140 markets which includes China.

“Mustang has been a huge success for us,” Colin Massey, general sales manager at Jennings Ford Middlesbrough in northeastern England, has said. “We are still seeing a steady demand for the Mustang and are currently averaging between three and four orders per week.”

Roughly 20,000 Mustangs have been sold in Europe, which include nearly 6,000 in Germany. These figures are since shipments began roughly a year ago. Ford’s figures show that it is the most popular car in the United Kingdom and is the top selling sports car so far this year in the United Arab Emirates, South Africa and Saudi Arabia.

“We are always trying to eke out one more right-hand-drive unit if we can,” said Carl Widmann, the Mustang’s chief engineer. “We’ve exceeded expectations overall. We’re getting happy customers across a lot of different regions.”