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Lol $72k for the cheapest extended range one.
563 hp though. Bet it is a hoot to drive, at least until your battery dies.
Anyone excited about EVs hasn't done the math on the electricity costs. ...or they live in Taxifornia where camping out at a supercharger station and paying a $10 fee to use one to avoid $5/gallon gas almost makes sense (by design).
True. Rode in a Model Y. Mad acceleration. Battery powered cars have that instant torque thing going for them.
I have. I have time of day charging and average 5.1 cents/KWh if I only charge between 10PM and 6AM at home (that's like getting gas at ~$0.60/gallon based off my average 3 mi/KWh). Only scheduled maintenance is at 150k and 200k miles for my Mach-E. I am now 100% work from home and that won't change unless I get a different job so I only drive about 5k miles a year now so I won't even make it to 150k miles before I get rid of it. The only thing I will ever have to replace is tires (not even breaks as I almost never touch them due to 1-pedal driving). So after tax, title, license, electrical outlet install and all tax breaks, my Mach-E (4WD Select) will be ~$44k (I got a 0% 36-month loan). Only about $800/year to insure too.
He actually wanted to buy a Supra but his wife put foot down with a solid no.
Real world test shows the Mach E taking nearly a minute to go from 100 km/h to 200 km/h. 4.62 seconds to 100 km/h, which is about how fast the Mustang High Performance Package (I4 turbo) hits 100 km/h with the A10.
To be fair, no one should be doing north of 150km/h anywhere in the US (on public roads) as that shit is very dangerous for everyone on the road.
Not every dealer is shady like that. The Ford dealership I brought is charging MSRP and don't tack on dealer options. The only car they really over charged for was the one Mustang GT 500.
I have also done the math, also work from home, and my numbers look even better than yours as my home Solar setup is producing just shy of 1 MWh surplus / year. Right now I'm using that for computers for folding@home, but that much extra juice covers a lot of what I would use driving, and my wife can charge for free at work. The idea of having essentially no maintenance and no fuel cost really makes EV appealing.
Must be nice. We're in the market for a new vehicle and every dealership we've been in contact with in FL has had a 5k+ markup on any of the vehicles we're interested in ranging from subaru, ford, nissan, VW. Honestly we'll probably buy a tesla. We were planning on holding off on electric for 5 ish years but our current mindset is f the dealership model.
I can understand, but I also just can't get that upset about it. It's a brand name for a car, not a newborn child... so long as it's a good vehicle, the name is almost incidental. I'd drive a Yugo EV if it was fast, tech-savvy and reliable.
I'd happily drive a real Mustang EV. I'm looking forward to that rumored hybrid. This CUV EV looks nice and all, but it should not be called a Mustang.
I feel the same. I don't understand why people get so upset over a name for a car that they wouldn't have bought anyway, regardless of the name. Honestly I think it was a brilliant marketing strategy for Ford. It has name recognition for those who aren't car people, it gets everyone talking about it (even if they hate the name), and EV GT version is very close to the ICE GT version, in terms of performance (if I recall correctly). I have the Select AWD version and it is plenty fast for me (unlike my last car that just laughed at me when I put my foot down).
Automakers spend absolutely disgusting gobs of money making advertisements just to make sure people want their product and are loyal to it. Want to hit the patriotic demographic? Lets make a commercial showing George Washington attacking the British driving a Dodge Charger!! (or some other car, I forgot the exact brand/model), and largely it works on people.
My favorites are the commercials showing people dropping loads of rocks into the truck beds, you're not a man unless you take a backhoe and drop a ton of rocks into the bed of your pickup!
Yup, that truck bed needs to bottom out before bouncing back up RAWR!My favorites are the commercials showing people dropping loads of rocks into the truck beds, you're not a man unless you take a backhoe and drop a ton of rocks into the bed of your pickup!
Car guys must have died in the 80s with that version of Mustang, nice little hatchback version, or perhaps the 4 cylinder coupe they had with a whopping 88hp on the base model!
I mean a lot of people don't fondly remember those years, either. Dark times compared to the 60s-early 70s for cars.
Unless you want to look like the baddest meth maker in town.
I honestly get it confused with the Escape whenever I see one. The Mach E is just an electric Escape with the Mustang name attached to it. Maybe the 'E' actually stands for "Escape."
Unfortunately I was kid going to school/teen during those years, so I remember them vividly.
Or you've been using a lot of said maker's product... especially if you think this looks like an Aztek. I think it's closer to a more rounded version of a Porsche SUV myself
Then there was the SVO (I4 turbo) that made more power than the V8 at the time.
The point is that it looks like garbage. Don't take it too personally.
I can understand, I remember the Chevy Volt concept which looked sleek and mean AF... then Chevy said "hmmm lets just strap a Malibu body to it, it'll be so much cheaper to do!"
Design by wind tunnel/ computer model has removed just about all character from cars. People can cope themselves into accepting it as the "new norm" and "but look at that acceleration!", but it doesn't change anything. Looks/ character have been reduced to practically nothing.
This is why i've given up on modern cars. I drive around a $15k Hyundai for my daily, and i've got a collection of older cars that i'm spending all my money on. I didn't see any point spending $100k-$200k on a higher-end performance car when they don't even interest me anymore. I've got a 2002 M Coupe w/ 20k miles, and a 1995 850csi w/ 15k miles. Still building my collection.
Go back to designing aero by using strands of wool.
