The Ford Mustang Mach-E is a game-changer in the automotive industry. Its design is inspired by the iconic Mustang, but with a twist that makes it stand out from other electric vehicles. The car's dimensions are notable, being 42 millimeters narrower, 16 millimeters longer, and 27 millimeters lower than a Porsche, making it a more agile and aerodynamic vehicle. Despite its smaller size, the Mach-E has ample boot space, with 402 liters of storage room when the rear seats are up and 1420 liters when they're down.

One of the most striking features of the Mach-E is its interior design, which is both modern and luxurious. The car's interior is dominated by a large screen that stretches across the dashboard, providing an unparalleled driving experience. The instrument cluster behind the steering wheel is a slim 10.2-inch screen that displays all essential driving information, including speed, while the central screen is a massive 15.5-inch display that serves as both the main infotainment system and a virtual cockpit.

The Mach-E's interior design is also notable for its use of physical buttons, a departure from the traditional touch-sensitive interfaces found in many modern vehicles. This attention to detail and commitment to user experience is evident throughout the car, from the waterproof and washable front boot to the spacious storage compartments and cupholders. The car's seating area is designed with comfort and practicality in mind, offering ample legroom and headroom for all occupants.

The Mach-E's technology features are equally impressive, with a state-of-the-art infotainment system that responds quickly and intuitively to user input. The car's range predictor is another notable feature, using data from the vehicle's sensors to estimate its actual range based on factors such as weather, gradient, and traffic conditions. This feature will learn and adapt over time, providing users with a more accurate picture of their car's capabilities.

In terms of materials, the Mach-E's interior is a masterclass in craftsmanship and attention to detail. The leather seats and fake carbon-fiber coating add a touch of luxury to the cabin, while the Bang & Olufsen premium 10 speaker sound system provides exceptional audio quality. The use of sustainable materials and design principles throughout the car's architecture has also been praised by industry experts.

Ford's decision to base the Mach-E on an all-new EV platform was a key factor in its development, allowing the company to start from scratch and create a vehicle that meets its ambitious goals. With an estimated range of over 300 miles per charge, the Mach-E is well-positioned to compete with other electric vehicles in its class.

The Mach-E's development timeline is also noteworthy, having been completed in just two years. This rapid turnaround was made possible by Ford's existing EV platform and testing infrastructure, allowing the company to accelerate its product development cycle and bring a high-quality vehicle to market quickly.

In terms of pricing and availability, the Mach-E has already begun to make waves in the automotive industry. With an estimated starting price around $50,000, the Mach-E offers exceptional value for money, particularly when compared to other electric vehicles on the market. Ford has confirmed plans to release several variants of the Mach-E, including a more affordable model and a high-performance GT variant, which is expected to arrive in just nine months.

Ultimately, the Ford Mustang Mach-E represents a significant shift in the company's approach to product development, as it prioritizes desirability, range, and technology over traditional considerations. By embracing the electric vehicle market and pushing the boundaries of what is possible, Ford has created a car that is not only functional but also visually stunning. The Mach-E is poised to become one of the most sought-after vehicles on the market, and its influence will be felt for years to come in the world of automotive design.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enfood has been paying a bit fast and loose recently with its badges hasn't it a refer of course to the Pew formerly a little Terrier of a coop a recently resurrected as yet another small SUV and now there's this an all-electric SUV with a Mustang badge on its nose hey what you're looking at is the new Ford Mustang Mac II that's right Ford has named a battery-powered SUV after the world's most famous muscle car the Mackay bit is a nod to the high-performance Mustang Mach 1 from the late 60s it's Ford's first mass-market electric car the first project from the internal Evi skunkworks loners team Edison and you can order your Mustang wacky now but only through Ford's online portal with either rear-wheel drive or dual motor four-wheel drive and the choice of a 75 kilowatt hour or a 99 kilowatt hour battery pack to save me reading out an endless list of numbers here's a split box for you to hit pause and peruse at your leisure got all that excellent just in case you didn't know here's a bit of a breakdown the cheapest one is the rear-wheel drive 75 kilowatt hour model which should cost from around 40 grand but you still get 280 miles on the W ltp range that is an around 252 horsepower the one with the claimed longest range is the rear-wheel drive model but with the bigger battery with that you get 370 miles of range the fastest one that's the all-wheel drive model with a big battery you get 332 horsepower they're not 60 in 7 seconds and the spangly asjuan isn't this this is just an all wheel drive version but it's called the first edition it's a limited run and it gets all the options labelled on it so stuff like unique grabber blue paint full-length panoramic roof of bno sound system 360 degree cameras the lot no prices for that one yet but we suspect somewhere north of 50 grand which is all well and good I hear you cry but none of that apart from you perhaps the range before you have fill up again as anything remotely to do with a good old v8 powered Mustang the link of course is in the way this thing okay so we're gonna do our design walk around the bit now but before we do I think it's worth just taking a moment and just taking in this cars overall design because Mustang and SUV there are two things that just shouldn't go together it's like strawberries and balsamic vinegar but it does kind of works doesn't it my first impression when I walked in here was it looks like a concept car because you got this Bluff grille you've got no door handles it's smoother than a production car should be isn't it anyway let's look at the details maybe work out why this car looks like it does and the first thing is the face unmistakably Mustang right but get a picture of the the new the 2019 coupe a house and you'll see there are no actual carryover parts three stripes and the headlight design that Mustang of course narrow eyes oh this is a bit of a giveaway isn't it Mustang badges there are no Ford badges on this car apparently they agonized over this one internally should it just be an inspired by Mustang SUV or should it be a proper extension of the Mustang family the thinking was if you're proud of the car the car is good enough go big or go home and I think they've made the right decision here that's obviously on the grill so this is Bluff this whole thing could have just been flush or it could have been fake mesh to make it look like a petrol-powered car but none of those white works or what they did with this Bluff grill to let you know it's an Eevee but then inset it slightly just hinting at a grill I think works quite nicely doesn't it and down here are the air intakes with the switch have been flaps that you so often see of electric cars coming around the side Wheelz yeah these are 19-inch wheels these are the biggest one that you can get for the moment at least there's your charging port then we get to what is probably the defining feature of the Mustang Macke that's the gauze the fact that there are no door handles obviously there's arrow benefits to that but I can't think of another car that didn't have door handles cut into the sheet metal the McLaren 12c perhaps I'm sure the Internet's gonna correct me on that but here's how it works so you hook up your phone to the card you can use your phone as a key or you have your key in the pocket and as you approach the car the door opens automatically by about 4 inches I don't have my phone hooked up to the car so I'm going to push this button instead if I push that and the door comes out to meet you you stick your fingers behind it and you open it up simple as that you'll notice there's a little handle here that's because in testing some customers were a bit worried about getting their fingers in that gap there so they've included the handle and the rear door exactly the same push this button here the door comes out to meet you stick your hand in and you flick it open Ford says is actually a lot easier to open doors like that rather than having to pull a handle like this when you got babies in one arm laptops and the other arm shopping hanging around your neck who knows and here's another thing if your phone runs out of battery or you've lost your key which let's face it is quite likely then there are numbers there's a keypad on the b-pillar here so you can use a four-digit code to get into the car and then once you're in there you can put in another four digit code on the screen to start the thing up back to the design quite an interesting feature here you'll notice the body color comes down here that gives you that lovely sloping sweeping like roofline but the actual roof stays a bit higher it separates away from the body color that gives you the practicality that gives you the space inside but in silhouette you get the design all right coming around the back what else can I tell you well it's a bit of a square isn't it but there's a reason for that you need this bluff rear end to keep the air attached down the side of the car for as long as possible to reduce the turbulence to maximize the range what else we got more Mustang badges more Mustang inspired lights in fact I spoke to the designer of this car earlier and he said he didn't want to be too heavy-handed with the Mustang design cues that he had a box of ingredients and in the corner there was a little part of Mustang spice and just a word on the dimensions because frankly I make most cars look bigger than they are overall it's 42 millimeters narrower but 16 millimeters longer and 27 millimeters lower than a Porsche but care in terms of boot space you get 402 liters or 1420 liters with the rear seats down which is about 100 litres less than you get with the Macan but you make that up with a hundred liter front boot which interestingly is waterproof and washable with a drain plug at the bottom perfect then for very small very wet docks when it comes to the interior Ford has clearly taken a leaf out Tesla's book here because there are physical buttons here you just can't Oh No there they are there's some on the wheel there's a gear selector down there there's a volume switch on the central screen but you get the idea screen is king in this car you get two of them the first is an instrument cluster behind here 10.2 inch screen really slim that gives all your driving information and your speed is labeled ground speed which is a classic Mustang Q and then you get the central portray orientated 15.5 inch screen which is absolutely massive and in fact that's half an inch bigger than the one you get in the model three clear one average now all the functions on this screen aren't working because this is an early prototype but the big idea here is this is an all-new HMI and it's written in html5 code rather than software specific to the car so it's easy to update and it responds to the screen the other big idea is the fat you can run apps from carplay and android auto simultaneously with native apps on the screen so for example you could have Waze running over here helping you to avoid the traffic but then Ford's native map over here with all your charging stops along the way it's also got over-the-air updates there is a true range predictor which takes into account weather and gradient and traffic along the way to tell you actually how much range you'll have when you get there and it's supposed to learn as you go along so after just a few hours it'll only bring up the functions it knows you really need in terms of seating position we are obviously slightly higher off the ground but all the reference points here are taken from the Mustang so the way the seat relates to the steering wheel and the shoulder line here all your reference points are taken from the Kupe in terms of materials will there's some quite interesting stuff going on obviously the interior is dominated by this slab of screen in the middle but you've got quite an interesting mix here leather seats leather here a sort of fake carbon-fiber coating here your air vents and then it gets quite interesting because this entire panel that runs the full width of the dash is one of the speakers from the Bang & Olufsen premium 10 speaker sound system so it's not only a good place to put the speaker it's also a nice tactile material to have right in front of you Ford has obviously made the most of the fact that it's gone evie architecture so you don't have a transmission tunnel here what you have is a large storage tray with wireless charging for your phone another storage tray underneath big cupholders another storage bin there and there's space for three full-sized adults in the back it really is quite a complete car this especially when you can see that they developed it from scratch in just two years ok they did have an all-new eb platform ready to go even so it's not just good this car it's a wrap it's unlike anything I've ever seen who forward before and this is just the beginning of Ford's Evi mission it's already confirmed the transit and f-150 Ibiza imminent while an even quicker GT version of the Maquis will arrive in around nine months interesting isn't it that Ford has gone premium with this thing aimed high it's aimed for the Tesla Model Y in terms of range and tech and square footage of screen I'll be honest though when I first heard they were gonna pimp out the Mustang name in an SUV I thought that's a horrible idea but now I see the logic this could have been just another generic crossover but instead Ford has taken desirability into account it's grabbed our attention is it going to drive like a Mustang no of course it's not but that's missing the point isn't it if you're more into v8 some burnouts we'll don't fret the original Mustang isn't going anywhere anytime soon youfood has been paying a bit fast and loose recently with its badges hasn't it a refer of course to the Pew formerly a little Terrier of a coop a recently resurrected as yet another small SUV and now there's this an all-electric SUV with a Mustang badge on its nose hey what you're looking at is the new Ford Mustang Mac II that's right Ford has named a battery-powered SUV after the world's most famous muscle car the Mackay bit is a nod to the high-performance Mustang Mach 1 from the late 60s it's Ford's first mass-market electric car the first project from the internal Evi skunkworks loners team Edison and you can order your Mustang wacky now but only through Ford's online portal with either rear-wheel drive or dual motor four-wheel drive and the choice of a 75 kilowatt hour or a 99 kilowatt hour battery pack to save me reading out an endless list of numbers here's a split box for you to hit pause and peruse at your leisure got all that excellent just in case you didn't know here's a bit of a breakdown the cheapest one is the rear-wheel drive 75 kilowatt hour model which should cost from around 40 grand but you still get 280 miles on the W ltp range that is an around 252 horsepower the one with the claimed longest range is the rear-wheel drive model but with the bigger battery with that you get 370 miles of range the fastest one that's the all-wheel drive model with a big battery you get 332 horsepower they're not 60 in 7 seconds and the spangly asjuan isn't this this is just an all wheel drive version but it's called the first edition it's a limited run and it gets all the options labelled on it so stuff like unique grabber blue paint full-length panoramic roof of bno sound system 360 degree cameras the lot no prices for that one yet but we suspect somewhere north of 50 grand which is all well and good I hear you cry but none of that apart from you perhaps the range before you have fill up again as anything remotely to do with a good old v8 powered Mustang the link of course is in the way this thing okay so we're gonna do our design walk around the bit now but before we do I think it's worth just taking a moment and just taking in this cars overall design because Mustang and SUV there are two things that just shouldn't go together it's like strawberries and balsamic vinegar but it does kind of works doesn't it my first impression when I walked in here was it looks like a concept car because you got this Bluff grille you've got no door handles it's smoother than a production car should be isn't it anyway let's look at the details maybe work out why this car looks like it does and the first thing is the face unmistakably Mustang right but get a picture of the the new the 2019 coupe a house and you'll see there are no actual carryover parts three stripes and the headlight design that Mustang of course narrow eyes oh this is a bit of a giveaway isn't it Mustang badges there are no Ford badges on this car apparently they agonized over this one internally should it just be an inspired by Mustang SUV or should it be a proper extension of the Mustang family the thinking was if you're proud of the car the car is good enough go big or go home and I think they've made the right decision here that's obviously on the grill so this is Bluff this whole thing could have just been flush or it could have been fake mesh to make it look like a petrol-powered car but none of those white works or what they did with this Bluff grill to let you know it's an Eevee but then inset it slightly just hinting at a grill I think works quite nicely doesn't it and down here are the air intakes with the switch have been flaps that you so often see of electric cars coming around the side Wheelz yeah these are 19-inch wheels these are the biggest one that you can get for the moment at least there's your charging port then we get to what is probably the defining feature of the Mustang Macke that's the gauze the fact that there are no door handles obviously there's arrow benefits to that but I can't think of another car that didn't have door handles cut into the sheet metal the McLaren 12c perhaps I'm sure the Internet's gonna correct me on that but here's how it works so you hook up your phone to the card you can use your phone as a key or you have your key in the pocket and as you approach the car the door opens automatically by about 4 inches I don't have my phone hooked up to the car so I'm going to push this button instead if I push that and the door comes out to meet you you stick your fingers behind it and you open it up simple as that you'll notice there's a little handle here that's because in testing some customers were a bit worried about getting their fingers in that gap there so they've included the handle and the rear door exactly the same push this button here the door comes out to meet you stick your hand in and you flick it open Ford says is actually a lot easier to open doors like that rather than having to pull a handle like this when you got babies in one arm laptops and the other arm shopping hanging around your neck who knows and here's another thing if your phone runs out of battery or you've lost your key which let's face it is quite likely then there are numbers there's a keypad on the b-pillar here so you can use a four-digit code to get into the car and then once you're in there you can put in another four digit code on the screen to start the thing up back to the design quite an interesting feature here you'll notice the body color comes down here that gives you that lovely sloping sweeping like roofline but the actual roof stays a bit higher it separates away from the body color that gives you the practicality that gives you the space inside but in silhouette you get the design all right coming around the back what else can I tell you well it's a bit of a square isn't it but there's a reason for that you need this bluff rear end to keep the air attached down the side of the car for as long as possible to reduce the turbulence to maximize the range what else we got more Mustang badges more Mustang inspired lights in fact I spoke to the designer of this car earlier and he said he didn't want to be too heavy-handed with the Mustang design cues that he had a box of ingredients and in the corner there was a little part of Mustang spice and just a word on the dimensions because frankly I make most cars look bigger than they are overall it's 42 millimeters narrower but 16 millimeters longer and 27 millimeters lower than a Porsche but care in terms of boot space you get 402 liters or 1420 liters with the rear seats down which is about 100 litres less than you get with the Macan but you make that up with a hundred liter front boot which interestingly is waterproof and washable with a drain plug at the bottom perfect then for very small very wet docks when it comes to the interior Ford has clearly taken a leaf out Tesla's book here because there are physical buttons here you just can't Oh No there they are there's some on the wheel there's a gear selector down there there's a volume switch on the central screen but you get the idea screen is king in this car you get two of them the first is an instrument cluster behind here 10.2 inch screen really slim that gives all your driving information and your speed is labeled ground speed which is a classic Mustang Q and then you get the central portray orientated 15.5 inch screen which is absolutely massive and in fact that's half an inch bigger than the one you get in the model three clear one average now all the functions on this screen aren't working because this is an early prototype but the big idea here is this is an all-new HMI and it's written in html5 code rather than software specific to the car so it's easy to update and it responds to the screen the other big idea is the fat you can run apps from carplay and android auto simultaneously with native apps on the screen so for example you could have Waze running over here helping you to avoid the traffic but then Ford's native map over here with all your charging stops along the way it's also got over-the-air updates there is a true range predictor which takes into account weather and gradient and traffic along the way to tell you actually how much range you'll have when you get there and it's supposed to learn as you go along so after just a few hours it'll only bring up the functions it knows you really need in terms of seating position we are obviously slightly higher off the ground but all the reference points here are taken from the Mustang so the way the seat relates to the steering wheel and the shoulder line here all your reference points are taken from the Kupe in terms of materials will there's some quite interesting stuff going on obviously the interior is dominated by this slab of screen in the middle but you've got quite an interesting mix here leather seats leather here a sort of fake carbon-fiber coating here your air vents and then it gets quite interesting because this entire panel that runs the full width of the dash is one of the speakers from the Bang & Olufsen premium 10 speaker sound system so it's not only a good place to put the speaker it's also a nice tactile material to have right in front of you Ford has obviously made the most of the fact that it's gone evie architecture so you don't have a transmission tunnel here what you have is a large storage tray with wireless charging for your phone another storage tray underneath big cupholders another storage bin there and there's space for three full-sized adults in the back it really is quite a complete car this especially when you can see that they developed it from scratch in just two years ok they did have an all-new eb platform ready to go even so it's not just good this car it's a wrap it's unlike anything I've ever seen who forward before and this is just the beginning of Ford's Evi mission it's already confirmed the transit and f-150 Ibiza imminent while an even quicker GT version of the Maquis will arrive in around nine months interesting isn't it that Ford has gone premium with this thing aimed high it's aimed for the Tesla Model Y in terms of range and tech and square footage of screen I'll be honest though when I first heard they were gonna pimp out the Mustang name in an SUV I thought that's a horrible idea but now I see the logic this could have been just another generic crossover but instead Ford has taken desirability into account it's grabbed our attention is it going to drive like a Mustang no of course it's not but that's missing the point isn't it if you're more into v8 some burnouts we'll don't fret the original Mustang isn't going anywhere anytime soon you\n"