Cool tech? Your phone is your key.
There is a key, but its functionality is
limited in order to encourage you to use
your phone. Don’t have a phone? You
can use the keypad to enter the car and
a second keypad to start the car. That
said, are there any Luddites shopping
for a new electric car who don’t have a
smartphone? (BTW, for them, the big,
prominent 15.5-inch screen has a volume
knob.) Ford used the term “physidigital”
to describe the interface, but my mind
automatically tunes out such argot, so
I missed the rest of it. It looks pretty
useful, though.
The Mach-E will initially be available
in three flavors. One is pure rear-drive
with a single large traction motor on the
rear axle. The Mach-E4 will be all-wheel
drive with a second smaller motor added
to the front axle. Then there will be the
Mach-E GT, which will add a twin of
the rear motor to the front axle for an
all-wheel-drive Mustang-flavored perfor-
mance SUV.
Ford claims the base RWD machine
will be as quick as the 248-horsepower
base Porsche Macan. We’ve never tested
a plain old turbo-four base Macan
(though we recorded a 0–60 time of 4.6
seconds for the Macan S), but Porsche
The huge hatch swallows a lot of cargo,
and there’s a decent-sized frunk, too. The
Mach-E is about the size of Ford’s Edge,
but it’s more spacious because it’s an EV.The back seat is
impressively roomy—
three teenagers fit,
no problem.claims it hits 60 mph in 6.3 seconds. The
Mach-E GT, Ford says, will accelerate like
a Porsche 911 GTS—a 450-hp car we’ve
tested hitting 60 mph in 3.1 seconds.
The Mach-E GT will come with 459
horsepower and 612 lb-ft of torque by
Ford’s current estimate. The Mach-E
First Edition will have an estimated 332
hp and 417 lb-ft. Ford is targeting 255 hp
and 306 lb-ft for the Mach-E base models.
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