The Mustang Mach E is a beast on the road. It absolutely crushes the performance of my wife's 2017 GT. Not even close except for high-speed cruising where the gas motor has more range and a faster fill-up.
The Mustang Mach E is a beast on the road. It absolutely crushes the performance of my wife's 2017 GT. Not even close except for high-speed cruising where the gas motor has more range and a faster fill-up.
It is generally referred to as the Mach-E.
They are available and are on the road currently.
Undoubtedly Ford did not pull the name out of its ass but spent a lot of money doing market research.
It's a crossover that has decent looks. I think all crossovers look goofy.
Tesla's truly have build quality issues and I would trust this car more. Understanding ford has it's issues too.
A car's resale value is a big factor to me and I live in the second biggest Tesla market in the world and re sale on those is not that good. Be interesting to see how this new "Stang" does.
Maybe, but it’s still a cross-over SUV with an electric motor. But whatever, as long as it “identifies as a mustang” I guess it’s OK in this day and age.Originally Posted by farscott
It’s the Bruce Jenner of performance cars.
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I can't tell, is that a four door? 0-60 in 3.5 seconds is serious acceleration.
Having said that, that interior hurts the hairs in my beard.
The E-Mustang might handle like a road course car, but it sounds like a vacuum cleaner on crank. Fuuuuck that.
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I had an 89 mustang LX as my first car. (Before anyone mistakes me for being “cool”, it was a 2.3 liter former rental car). But it looked cool and I was not embarrassed to pick up a date in it.
Agreed the the current mustang has the sexiest lines and layout of the past 50 years. By far.
But the Mach E looks like a mid 90s Ford escort. Why can’t they stick that electric engine into an actual mustang body, and call that boring/ugly thing something other than Mustang?!? Call it the Taurus Lite or something. Or the “Ford Probe 2.0”
This kind of reminds me when Ford took the Taurus and re branded it the “Ford 500”, and wiped their ass with 30 years of brand recognition and customer loyalty. That was a major flub. Now, I see history repeating itself, as they wipe their ass with 60 years of name recognition and brand loyalty for the mustang. It’s like the Mustang 2 all over again.
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I'm a long time Mustang guy and have owned several. My first car was a 65 289. The new Mustangs are dead sexy. I'd kill for a Revology build.
All that said, I don't like the aesthetics of the Mach E.
Former owner of a '93 LX 2.3/5speed here. And I road raced an '88LX Coupe with a 2.3Turbo - And I'll have another Fox before I'm dead (wife LOVED the Fox).
Honestly, they could have just stuck an electric engine in the current Mustang and called it the Mustang E and offered it alongside the Mustang GT/WhateverOtherTrimLevelsThereAre and would have had a really cool car. Something that doesn't actually exist for a reasonable price in the market, a 2-door electric sports coupe. It's not the electric motor that makes it 'not a Mustang' (though some will claim that's it).
It's the fact that it's a 4-door Crossover SUV built on a fucking Explorer chassis that makes it NOT a Mustang. Conceptually, there were thoughts the Mustang might be more than a 2-door Coupe/Fastback/Convertible in the 1960s, but they never materialized, because Ford realized Falcon/Fairlane/Galaxie were better lines for those vehicles. Iaccoca was well known for opposing the expansion of the Mustang line into 4-door models, because it would dilute the Mustang's brand appeal. 55-years of sports coupes and Ford brings out an atrocity of an extension of the Mustang line. It's not the first time they thought about it (e.g., the Probe), but this time common sense did not prevail.
Ford's marketing said that they want to make "Mustang" into more of a lifestyle thing. They're in the driver's seat on this one, and I have no idea what they're thinking. These are the same people that were very concerned that people be able to recognize that the Ford Focus SVT and the Edge shared the same design language.
But I agree, I would say it's really quite an exceptional car, but I hate it because they of what they keep calling it. Just call it "Mach E" and be done with it.
Marketing should never be allowed to make decisions about the products actually made and sold. Only be allowed to decide how best to sell them and provide feedback on things that appear to be working or not.
Also, I don't understand what was wrong with just making an "E" model for the lineup? Mustang E, Explorer E, F150 E, Ecetera...
Some Marketing fucktard missed the boat too. The "2021 Ford GalaxiE Preserving Earth and our Galaxy with zero emissions."
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