If your Mustang was a late-model, turbocharged, Ecoboost Mustang? Maybe! All I really know is that the Mach-E is a near miss for me, but if you’re in the market for a fast, capable, good-looking EV that knows how to hustle its way up the road, you’d be a fool to not give the Mach-E a try, at least. Starting at 1 43,895 Select Model 060 MPH 3.5 Seconds GT Performance Edition EPA-Estimated Range 171 314 Miles California Route 1 RWD Be the first to know when the 2023 Mustang Mach-E is ready to go. Is it a real Mustang? Of course it is – but is it the Mustang you remember? If your Mustang was a late 80s Fox-body? No. Contact your dealer for more information or sign up to be the first to know when 2023 Mustang Mach-E orders go on sale. When a car ticks every box, then, the question of whether or not it moves you becomes more subjective.
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The handling is better, the body is stiffer, the ride is quieter, the acceleration is much, much more responsive – this is, objectively, the finest Ford Mustang I have ever driven, and that includes the 2010 Shelby GT500 Jack Baruth and I drove to Cedar Point one summer, and I insist that an average driver will be quicker around a track in the Mach-E than the hairy-chested Shelby of a decade ago (how did that happen!?). The Mustang Mach-E is smooth and fast, dynamically excellent, and light years ahead of my old live-axle Fox-body 5.0. And, as you may have suspected, I only had a chance to notice all these things because the car itself was just so freaking excellent. If you haven’t noticed already, allow me to hang a lantern on it for you: my complaints about the Mustang Mach-E are petty and nit-picky and ridiculous.
So, is the new Ford Mustang Mach-E the perfect car? The one that tugs on all the right heartstrings for Jo Borrás to drive down to the Ford dealer? Not exactly, and I’ll get into why in just a moment – but before I do, I’ll spoil the ending: the Mach-E is not for me, but I think you should definitely get one. Similarly, my recent string of long-roof Volvo cars gets more attention than it probably should in these pages, and I’ve grown accustomed to the flexibility those wagons and SUVs give me. So much so, in fact, that a visually identical black/silver two-tone Mustang is my go-to track weapon in Forza. I ruined the car, as dumb kids are wont to do, but it still holds a special place in my heart. It was a 1987 Fox-body GT with the 5.0L V8 rated at a claimed 225 hp – rocket-fast in its day – that my aunt had bought new, and which made its way to me a few years later.
They have kids, a house in the suburbs, a mortgage – they want a Mustang, but they need something practical. Ultimately, they don’t, because a rear-wheel drive, two-door sporty coupe doesn’t fit into their lives anymore. “They probably loved that car, and might think about buying a new one from time to time. “Imagine a person who had a Mustang when they were younger,” says the imaginary Ford marketer, pitching the idea of an all-electric Mustang crossover to a slightly incredulous board. Admittedly, my own experience with a “real” Mustang is clouded by nostalgia that’s well over twenty years old – but that might just make me the ideal candidate for a Mustang Mach-E.
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