Ford Mustang Mach-E
Autocar UK|April 27, 2022
Zero-emission Mustang range is crowned by the first all-electric fast Ford
ILLYA VERPRAET and MATT SAUNDERS
Ford Mustang Mach-E

MODEL TESTED GT AWD

Price £66,280

Power 480bhp

Torque 634lb ft

0-60mph 4.2sec

30-70mph in fourth na

Economy 2.4mpkWh

CO2 emissions 0g/km

70-0mph 43.1m

We like

  • Plenty of practicality and a respectable real-world range
  • Comparable performance with any similarly priced sports saloon
  • Electronic torque-vectoring enlivens lower-speed handling

We don't like

  • Controls feel a bit numb and lack fine-tuning
  • Outright grip and close body control are unremarkable
  • It's priced like a premium option but lacks (some) premium qualities

Back in 2020, while Ford was still whetting appetites and building interest in its first series-production EV, the Mustang Mach-E, you might remember that it made a bit of a splash - and plenty of smoke - with a one-off, four-wheel-drive demonstration vehicle' called the Mach-E 1400. Driven at various events that year by drift ace Vaughn Gittin Jr, the car's mission was “to showcase the art of the possible for an electric car". With seven motors and nearly 1400bhp, it certainly did that.

Compared with prototypes, of course, production cars are born more out of the arts of the achievable and commercially viable. Our question this week, then, is whether Ford's range-topping, road-going performance version of the Mach-E, the Mach-E GT, can follow in the wheel tracks of that 2020 prototype or whether it will wilt in comparison.

This story is from the April 27, 2022 edition of Autocar UK.

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