New Ford Mustang 'Dearborn Doll' shows airplane-influenced design

Ford Mustang "Dearborn Doll" shows airplane influenced design by posing with its inspiration.

The new Ford Mustang AVX-10 was nick-named the "Dearborn Doll" to reflect the pet names flyers gave their planes during WWII. Based on a Mustang GT, the "Doll" has styling tweaks based around a fighter plane color scheme, a supercharged 550 HP, 4.6 liter V-8, lowered suspension, handling package, and tuned exhaust with tuned tips. Details include yellow tips on the alloy wheels' spokes that mimic the yellow tips on WWII fighter plane propellors. 

Check out the slide show below for aircraft-influenced car designs

Bringing aircraft style to a Mustang makes sense as the car was named after WWII's fastest propellor airplane, the P-51 Mustang.

There's a long history of car designers incorporating aircraft influences; the most notable example being GM styling chief Harley Earl's adoption of tail fins on the 1948 Cadillac, a controversial gimmick that became nearly universal by the late 1950s. Hudson's Terraplane was plainly marketed as an earthbound airplane, going so far as to feature endorsements by famed aviatrix Amelia Earhart. Many 1950s "dream" or concept cars borrowed liberally from aircraft motifs. This borrowing makes sense as  land and air vehicles' performance is greatly determined by their aerodynamics.

Though the new Mustang AVX-10 offers unique style and a great compliment of performance bits, interested buyers won't need to rush to Ford showrooms and place an order--Ford has no plans to produced the "Doll" beyond this one-and-only-one concept car.