When the commercial for the 2013 Mustang came out, I think TOB highlighted the 'Black Swan' reference near the end of the commercial when the Shelby drove by. I looked around briefly but saw so many interpretations of Black Swan that I couldn't clearly define what the reference was supposed to stand for definitively. Today, I came by this story:
A 200 mph Mustang. 662 horsepower. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have bet money on it. Now we'll see if this really is the swan song for the GT500, too.
The Black Swan breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia and was unknown in Europe until a few hundred years ago. When the Roman satirist Juvenal wrote in 82 AD of "a rare bird in the lands, and very like a black swan," he was saying as a black swan did not exist, neither did the supposed characteristics of the 'rare bird' with which it was being compared. For the next 1500 years the black swan existed in the European imagination as a metaphor for that which could not exist, and the phrase "all swans are white" was used as a standard example of a well-known truth. Imagine the surprise, then, when The Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh sighted a black swan in 1697 on the western coast of Australia. Today, a black swan event is a large-impact, perceived impossibility that actually came to pass. Such an event was the 9/11 attacks.
A 200 mph Mustang. 662 horsepower. I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have bet money on it. Now we'll see if this really is the swan song for the GT500, too.
