FORD MUSTANG MACH-E GT

Performance flagship shows what it can – and can’t – do on British roads

- MATT SAUNDERS

TESTER ’S NOTE

Plumping for the Mach-E GT buys your electric Mustang a 124mph top speed, where lesser ones are limited to 112mph. But compared with a regular RWD Extended Range, it also buys you 69 miles less lab-tested usable range. I know which I’d rather have.

The world is now ready for the emergence of the really compelling, daily-usable electric performance car. The market grows ever more receptive by the week. Yet still the wait goes on – and it’s likely to for some time yet.

This will sound painfully familiar, but the facts haven’t changed. Taking an intrinsically heavy, often highriding family car that’s powered by technology that typically makes for a fairly sterile driving experience, and turning it into something that’s genuinely rewarding, as well as fast and dynamically sophisticated… well, it isn’t easy. The Audi E-tron S, Volkswagen ID 4 GTX and every ‘performance’-badged Tesla in the past half decade prove that much.

And so, I’m afraid, does the new Ford Mustang Mach-E GT, which we’ve just driven on UK roads for the first time. Sorry to sound like some luddite sourpuss about this, but if we want the electric car to really mature, honesty’s a lot more useful than wishful cheerleading.