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In response to RLC members asking for millions of Mustangs and billions of Bugs, the first sELECTIONs poll of 2008 pitted four 'Stangs against four different Volkswagen-based castings. After a modest uproar, a HWC.com "Marketing guru" commented on the ratonale behind the casting choices, and the ubiquitous color:

I will re-post what I put in another thread regarding no more blue from now on:

No promises.

A couple of you did correctly interpret this first round of Selections (Thugs vs. Bugs) as being awfully cliched. Intentionally so. You like Mustangs and VWs? Well then - here they all are. Vote for your favorite child. Let's get all the baggage out of the way with this first one so we can get some new stuff in here.

Believe it or not, we're just as sick of making the same stuff over and over as you guys claim to be. And yet - you always vote for it.

There were bets at the beginning of if we'd be making yet another blue Mustang with RRs. I had faith. But someone's eating on my dime tonight.

Five months later, in an unrelated topic, one member posted a thought which was promptly edited: