The Ford Mustang Mach E Has Been Leaked And It's Quicker Than A V8 GT
Remember that contentiously-named Ford ‘Mustang Mach E’ which was officially christened this week? It’s effectively been revealed in full several days before you’re supposed to see it. By Ford.
Ford’s dedicated site for reserving the car went live early, and although the page was hidden, a Mach E forum member was able to access it after playing around with different URLs. The website shows the car from all angles, and even more awkwardly, some key details. It’s now been taken down, but not before screen grabs were taken and picked up by the world’s motoring media.
The page shows that the Mach E will be available in five flavours in the USA, starting with the ‘Select’ for $43,895. It can be specced in either all or rear-wheel drive forms, is estimated to have an EPA-rated range of 230 miles, and can do 0-62mph in the mid-five-second range when specced with AWD.
The $50,600 Premium Mach E has the same targeted 0-60mph time, but it’ll be able to do it whether you opt for all-wheel drive or not. It comes on 19-inch wheels compared to the Select’s 18s and has an EPA estimated range of 300 miles.
The California Route 1 will set you back $52,400, sits on 18-inch wheels, and has an estimated range of 300 miles. Intended to be the long-distance cruiser of the bunch (hence the name), it’s slower than the Select and the Premium with a mid-six-second 0-60mph time.
There’s a First Edition coming in at $59,900 with a range of 270 miles and similar straight-line performance to the Select and Premium, and finally, a $60,500 GT. Yep, Ford has gone there. It’s comfortably quicker than the V8-powered ‘proper’ Mustang GT with a mid-three-second 0-60, but it has the lowest range of the quintet at 235 miles. These final two are only available with all-wheel drive.
So the Mach E certainly has the right kind of go to live up to the Mustang name, and there are more styling cues to the Pony Car than expected. But does that just make the whole thing seem all the more cynical? We’ll let you thrash that one out in the comments.
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Comments
This car will be great, but that name is just pandering to Crossover Buyers who want something “Sporty” couldnt they just’ve named it the Galaxie?
The world doesn’t need another fast EV. We need more cheap, slow, crap econobox and SUV EV’s for the non-petrolhead masses. Petrol needs to be saved for those of us who truly appreciate it, not wasted on mums doing the school run.
Exactly. I doubt 99% of the SUV/Crossover owners even know what engine is in their car. Yet these companies keep trying to make EV sport cars. It makes no sense, the sport car market is so small anyways that making it all electric won’t make a difference, and it’d only make less people interested, since all the fun (noise, engine, manual transmission) are all gone. Then you look over and see Soccer Mom Sally in her giant SUV that gets 10 mpg.
The fact that they use Mustang’s name for a crossover/SUV is an insult. Doesn’t matter how fast it is. Gross….
The front is nothing but a Taurus, Ford, why?..
I dig the rear though… but why call a ducking crossover a Mustang, that I’ll never understand
The ecoboost could’ve been faster too. No one would’ve cared
This is awful, really bad. Car itself is fine I guess.. not a fan of electrics at all but the fact that they would name this after the Mustang is sad. Since when was a mustang a crossover and electric?? Awful.. should have named it the Ford Mach E.