Read this telling interview with the president of Shelby American

I have been wondering about what Ford Racing’s new push for simplified and centralized branding — not to mention the encroachment of the Mustang Dark Horse into the territory of previously Shelby-branded performance Mustangs — means for Shelby American, and clearly I’m not alone in that.

Road & Track got a chance to ask Shelby president Gary Patterson about this, and while it was with the PR intent to brush it off, he did acknowledge that the relationship has waned. He says it’s a historical pattern and he feels about Ford and Shelby getting back together someday.