The Detroit Auto Show extravaganza kicks off today with a visit by the confessed "I'm an auto guy" President Joe Biden coming to town today. But also heading for D is a "Mustang Stampede", Ford Mustang owners and buyers, as detailed in this amusing read. And good news for our hotels and restaurants.

Registration capped as interest in Mustang stampede surges
Phoebe Wall Howard
Detroit Free Press USA TODAY NETWORK

As summer fades into fall, there's nothing better than going for a pony ride

So it should come as no shock that more than 1,000 Ford Mustang pony cars [[and more than 1,600 owners and passengers) are headed to the Motor City as part of a cross-country stampede that ends at Hart Plaza in downtown Detroit late Wednesday. And those are just the people who officially registered with Ford.

“You can't call it a convoy. It is literally a stampede,” said Diane Flis-Schneider of America's Automotive Trust, who is leading six generations of Mustangs from Tacoma, Washington, plus a camouflaged seventh generation Mustang [[that will be unveiled Wednesday) driven by a Ford engineer.

Word spread of the convoy within the Mustang community and fans have planned ahead to join the celebration from around the country.

Crowds of hundreds have gathered at each stop and Mustang owners have even driven a portion of the route, which has gone from Tacoma to Yakima in Washington; Boise to Salt Lake City; Cheyenne, Wyoming, to Kearney, Nebraska, and Kansas City, Missouri, to Auburn, Indiana, with arrival in Michigan on Wednesday...

...They began their journey on Sept. 6. Ford Motor Co. capped registration for its official stampede scheduled to go Wednesday night from Ford World Headquarters in Dearborn to downtown Detroit as part of the North American International Auto Show - to be followed by the big reveal of the 2024 Mustang.

Mustang owners registered from almost every state, coast to coast. They're flying in. And they're driving in from all over the U.S. And this isn't just a domestic crowd. People are coming from Spain, France, Germany, Australia and India, Ford said.

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