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• GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK
• FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT
• FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD
• FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL
• FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL
• FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER

GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANGBY BRETT BERKOCTOBER 23, 2008SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVETHERE ARE A NUMBER OF VEHICLE NAMEPLAT THAT HAVE BEEN NTUO PRODUCTN FOR S, BUT FEW ARE AS INIC AS THE MOL WE SPOTLIGHT THIS WEEK'S GAYT OF THE RUN FEATURE: THE FORD MTANG. CREDED WH CREATG, AND GIVG NAME TO, THE "PONY R" CLASS OF AFFORDABLE, SPORTY, YOUTH-ORIENTED TWO-DOORS, THE MTANG WAS AND REMAS AN EXEMPLAR OF TRADNAL AMERIN MASCULY: LOUD, UNREFED, AND NOT PARTICULARLY AGILE. HOWEVER, DURG S NEARLY 45-YEAR TENURE, WAS EVABLE THAT SOME OFFSPRG OM THE HYPER-BUTCH EQUE LE WOULD E OUT A LTLE…LIGHTER THEIR GOODYEARS THAN THE RT OF THEIR SIBLGS. WHY ELSE WOULD WE HAVE CHOSEN THE STANG AS OUR OFFICIAL STICK SHIFT MAST? (SEE UP THERE, ALL RABOW HUED, AND HORNILY MOUNTG 'S CLONE?) ANYWAY, HERE ARE OUR CHOIC FOR THE FIVE GAYT MTANGS EVER MA, ONE OM EACH OF THE R'S FIVE BASIC GENERATNS. VOTE OUR POLL FOR THE ONE YOU THK IS THE GAYT OF THE RUN.GENERATN 1 (1964-1969): 1966 SHELBY GT-HTHE SHELBY GT-H WAS AVAILABLE AS A RENTAL OM HERTZ, AND WAS OFTEN ED BY PEOPLE TERTED DOG DRAG ON THE WEEKENDS. (OKAY, DRAG RACG, BUT STILL.)AT ONCE BULGG AND TIGHTLY WRAPPED, LIKE A 1950S PHYSIQUE MOL.WATERED DOWN A TOUGH, ASPIRATNAL BRAND WH A POOR ANCHISG CISN—KD OF LIKE MTANG COLOGNE. (NOTE THE PRENCE OF A SIAR VEHICLE THIS AD.)GENERATN 2 (1970-1973): 1973 MTANG GRANWOULD YOU LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF THAT HOOD? INCH WERE ADD UP ONT FOR THIS RE-SIGN MAKG THE LONGT (AND THICKT) MTANG TO DATE. TLY A SIZE-QUEEN'S PARADISE.OVERVELOPED LTOIDS RISG UP ABOVE THE HOOD LE, FORESTG THE 'S CIPIENT HOMO-DRIVEN GYM CULTURE.MAYBE THE LEAST GAY OF OUR GAY MTANGS. (I ACTUALLY FD SORT OF GROTQUE AND MENACG.) BUT THE EPICENTER-OF-EVIL—SARAH PAL—HAD ONE HIGH SCHOOL, AND I THK WOULD BE HILAR IF THE R SHE DROVE THE 80S WERE VOTED GAYT OF THE N.GENERATN 3 (1974-1978): 1977 MTANG II GHIAWHEN THE MTANG WENT MANOREXIC ( RPONSE TO ABOVE-MENTNED BLOAT OF THE PREV GENERATN.)THE "STEREOTYPILLY" GAY PONY CAR: WIMPY, WEAK, UNRPOWERED, FEME.BASED ON THE PTO PLATFORM—FAMO FOR "GOG OFF" WHEN TAKEN OM THE REAR.MOST POPULARTHE TAN SUBMERSIBLE DISASTER WAS YEARS THE MAKG, NEW DETAILS REVEALBY SAN CASEYMELANIA’S TAKE ON DONALD TMP’S FOURTH INDICTMENT IS BASILLY “SUCKS TO BE YOU, PAL”: REPORTBY BS LEVPRCE HARRY AND MEGHAN MARKLE’S HEART OF INVICT NETFLIX DOC GETS A TRAILER AND RELEASE DATEBY KASE WICKMANGENERATN 4 (1979-2004): 1987 MTANG GTCOVERED LOUVERS, EXTENSNS, OPENGS, FLAR, AND SKIRTS LIKE SOME SORT OF ECSTASY-ED OUT, 80'S CLUB-KID.SHREDD, PEEK-A-BOO REAR-TAIL-LIGHT TREATMENT, SEEMGLY MOLED ON THE ASS OF GEE MICHAEL'S PANTS DURG THE SAME ERA.ITS WORKG NAME SI FORD WAS "FOX BODY" MTANG.GENERATN 5 (2005-PRENT): 2008 MTANG "BULT"INSPIRED BY THE R THE 1968 FILM BULT STARRG STEVE MCQUEEN, MY GAY STYLE IN. (P.S. MCQUEEN!)SPORT EXHST PUTER-TUNED TO MATCH THE SOUND OF THE R THE ORIGAL FILM. ONLY A GAY R WOULD RE THAT MUCH ABOUT SUCH A SUBTLE ASPECT OF S REAR END: 'S THE ANAL BLEACHG OF THE TOMOTIVE WORLD.BULITT? IT'S LIKE A LAME JOKE OF A BAD GAY PORNO TLE.VOTE YOUR CHOICE FOR GAYT OF THE RUN: FORD MTANG(POLLS)BRETT BERK IS A DETRO NATIVE, A LIFE-LONG R NUT, A GAY, AND THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE'S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT BRETT BERK

There are a number of vehicle nameplat that have been ntuo productn for s, but few are as inic as the mol we spotlight this week's Gayt of the Run feature: the Ford Mtang. ) Anyway, here are our choic for the five gayt Mtangs ever ma, one om each of the r's five basic generatns.

FORD BUILDS 'VERY GAY' RANGER RAPTOR IN RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC COMMENT

Vote our poll for the one you thk is the Gayt of the Run. Overveloped ltoids risg up above the hood le, forestg the 's cipient homo-driven gym the least gay of our gay Mtangs. ) But the epicenter-of-evil—Sarah Pal—had one high school, and I thk would be hilar if the r she drove the 80s were voted gayt of the n.

FORD’S ‘VERY GAY RAPTOR’ SET TO REFE ‘TOUGH’ AT GOODWOOD

)The "stereotypilly" gay Pony Car: wimpy, weak, unrpowered, on the Pto platform—famo for "gog off" when taken om the rear.

Generatn 5 (2005-Prent): 2008 Mtang "Bult"Inspired by the r the 1968 film Bult starrg Steve McQueen, my gay style in. Only a gay r would re that much about such a subtle aspect of s rear end: 's the anal bleachg of the tomotive It's like a lame joke of a bad gay porno Your Choice for Gayt of the Run: Ford Mtang(polls)Brett Berk is a Detro native, a life-long r nut, a Gay, and the thor of The Gay Uncle's Gui to Parentg. Suba realized this the early 90s and began targetg gay upl s advertisements g gno referenc that were lost on straight dienc, effectively securg the attentn of lbian r buyers and flyg over the heads of those who would be offend.

FORD ACTUALLY BUILT A 'VERY GAY RAPTOR' RPONSE TO AN TER TROLL

It was also created due to a specific, negative social media menter that lled the Raptor's origal lor of Performance Blue "very gay. " As such, Ford specifilly named this pickup the Very Gay Raptor. Gallery: Ctom 'Very Gay' Ford Ranger Raptor Regnizg the discrimatory tone of the ment, the tomaker rpond wh an over-the-top image of a rabow Ranger to make the pany's posn very clear.

FORD ROLLS OUT 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO HOMOPHOBIC TROLL

Addnally, Ford's GLOBE (Gay, Lbian, or Bisexual Employe) work celebrat s 25th anniversary this year, supportg LGBTQ+ employe and diversy the workplace. The Very Gay Raptor will be on display Cologne through Augt 28 and partake the annual ColognePri 2021 para on Sunday.

In 1996, Ford did somethg unheard of at any large-sle pany Germany: tablished an -hoe group for Gay, Lbian or Bisexual Employe – GLOBE. “Homophobia was wispread. 2010 – Ford of Germany sponsors the Gay Gam Cologne.

FORD UNVEILED A 'VERY GAY' TCK RPONSE TO A HOMOPHOBIC COMMENTER

2015 – All-new Ford Mtang ws “Gay Car of the Year” Award Europe. “Very Gay Raptor”’ (VGR) and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor to appear at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed, reaffirmg Ford’s long-term mment to LGBTQ+ allyship.

GOODWOOD, UK, June 21, 2022 – Ford will ntue monstratg s allyship wh the LGBTQ+ muny at the Goodwood Ftival of Speed this week, brgg “Very Gay Raptor” and the Next-Gen Ranger Raptor along for the ri. The appearance of “Very Gay Raptor” at the event near Chichter, UK, will be ed to further iate important discsns and aimed at drivg out discrimatn the tomotive dtry, and beyond. As part of this, Ford will be prentg live ssns of s new “Tough Talks” seri at Goodwood om the tck bed of “Very Gay Raptor”, hosted by Welsh gby legend Gareth Thomas, the first openly-gay gby unn player.

Created 2021, “Very Gay Raptor” was born rponse to a negative ment on social media, wh Ford renrg s most badass nameplate sparklg gold adorned wh rabow graphics. In a vio teasg the appearance of “Very Gay Raptor” and Next-Gen Ranger Raptor at the event, both vehicl speed through off-road trails vered mud – at tim takg different paths, facg off, yet displayg their equally imprsive and tough abili, regardls of their differg inti.