Ford Mustang Mach-E 2024 review: Select | Long-term electric car test of Kia EV6 family SUV rival

The Mustang Macke was always destined to make a lot of people a little angry. After all, Ford had transplanted the name most famous for being a V8 Coupe to a four-door

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SUV, but let's say you're okay with this concept or maybe. You're only watching this video because you're shopping this segment for all your midsize EV options if you ignore the pony badge. How is this car as an SUV? How is it as an EV and how does it compare well to its competitors? I've been driving this one here for 3 months now and some thanks only to find out that the Mac e can be had from $72990 before on road costs and that's for the base model

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ion making it significantly more expensive than some of its

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s such as the Subaru Saltera Toyota bz 4X and Hyundai ionic 5, although it competes more closely with the sporty AA ev6, ​​which in its basic version can be had for a similar price, there are also two other Mac e variants that become significantly more expensive above the basic

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ion: there is the premium that offers a much larger battery and up to 600 km of range, while the top GT exceeds $100,000, but almost doubles the performance offered with its propulsion system dual motor and all-wheel drive, although I think the one we've been driving for this

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is by far the best value because not only do you get pretty much all the equipment, but you also get plenty of power channeled to the rear wheels and The 470km of range available on this supposedly standard range battery is all most people will need. helping to justify its price, although standard equipment even here on the base car includes things only seen on premium

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s, such as heated and

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ally adjustable leatherette interior seats, a panoramic sunroof and an audio system olive tree with 10 speakers. a wireless phone charger and this is in addition to other elements such as the huge 15 1/2-inch multimedia touchscreen with wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, a 10.25-inch digital instrument cluster, 19-inch alloy wheels and a suite 360° parking if you want a little more.

On the rest of the Macki range, check out my launch

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on CarGuide.ph. How much range you have left, you can see where the car is and this kind of thing can be kind of useful, but it would be nice to see a This app has been improved a little bit, it's a little slow and stuff, it's just a missed opportunity, but it's something that can be fixed with future software updates. Next, let's talk about design. I've met people who really love the style. I've met people who really hate the styling, but I have to say I really liked this car.

I started out not sold on the curved bits offset by the Mustang's square lights in the rear, but the more I looked at it, the more I liked it, so a note on the styling. I think this car looks amazing now, but that's only because I just cleaned it. These bright finishes here around the styling pieces and wheels look a million bucks when they're all shiny and clean, but they get dirty really quickly and take on a sort of matte finish and it makes this car look a little more Mad Max than What you see now jumping around inside the Mackie and a feature that really divided people when it came to styling is this huge screen.

Some people loved it. Some people really hated it when I showed it to them. I've gotten used to it. I don't notice it as much as when I first got into this car. It looks a little out of place, it just sits forward on this otherwise very symmetrical board, so it's a bit of a controversial piece. We'll talk more about that in a second here, but the rest of the interior is very forward when it comes to its styling and this means it has a greyscale appeal; There isn't as much attention to detail as in competitive products like Kia Z 6 or hyai ionic 5 in

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s of patent work and innovation. materials and this kind of stuff, however, it is quite luxurious here, there are a lot of nice soft touch materials everywhere and I must say that kind of bang and olon speaker base design on the top here and this kind of shark tooth inlay going on here, which is one of the only ways you can tell the grades of Mac e.

They're really nice touches and because the rest is pretty grayscale and generic, they stand out a little more and make this interior a little special. So as far as practicality goes, you get a nice spacious interior here because keep in mind it's a global car, but it mainly has to appeal to that American audience as well, so there's a lot of space, it's really comfortable and it has a seat really fluffy. trim, which I love you, you just sink into these these seats, they're lovely now in

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s of storage, there's a lot throughout this cabin and on the door here you have a nice bottle holder, but its height is limited by this.

Sort of an armrest piece that sticks out, so our large car guide bottle only fits side down. There are two more on this center console, a wireless charger on this side and another place for a phone, which is pretty cool because you can wire one phone and have another one on the wireless charger is always a nice touch. You also have the USB ports hidden down here so you don't have to have cables cluttering up the cabin too much and you have a large storage space that goes underneath and also moves up into the console area here and you have a floating armrest piece. which is not a box, it doesn't open, but underneath is a box with its own type of roll-up cover. all the way to the top which is nice and of course it also includes a glove box.

Now you can't talk about practicality without also talking about the software on current screens because they take up a large part of the cabin and control many things. Of the functions now, you may have noticed right away that there are no shortcut buttons here, there is just a big dial and a couple of buttons for the parking functions, the handbrake and stuff, but in this software you get a dedicated strip for your climate. You control the heated seats the heated steering wheel and you press a button there to deploy a tray that has the rest of these climate functions.

It's a little frustrating. It took me a little while to figure out how to use them all because on the tray. you have like the recirculation button, for example, you have the on and off button for the climate. I would love to have a shortcut button for that, but other than that, it works pretty well. This dial here Prim controls the volume, but it's multifunction, if you press the fan speed controller for example, you can also control it with the dial, so this is a way forward by having a dial but also allowing you to control things that should be controlled with a dial.

Works? I think it would be better to have two or three dials here, but that's just me personally. Elsewhere the software is quite functional, it's quite fast, it sometimes lags a bit when you start the car which can be a bit disconcerting. Drive for 30 seconds down the road before you can see anything happening on this screen, but there are also some interesting features here that I haven't seen on many EVS before. I hadn't seen it across the board. You've got a Here's a really great trip computer that shows you where all the capacity of your battery is going, where it's going to get air conditioning, where it's going to get the outside temperature, some cool stuff like that and it also has some kind of safety features. innovative that You can turn them all off to start and secondly, you can even adjust the tolerances of some of them, which is pretty clever.

Next, let's sit in the back seat. Everyone who climbed into the back seat of the Mai was impressed. the amount of space on offer and also how comfortable it is because once again the squishy seat upholstery continues, this will be one of the most comfortable midsize SUVs I have sat in in quite some time, to the point where I really believe that this is a fantastic

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-distance tourism simply because of the way it is. It's very comfortable and quiet here with the acoustic glass and also moving into the space. As you can see, I have a lot of room here behind my own driving position for my knees, I have a lot of room for my feet because there are no obstructions down here, there is no transmission tunnel or anything like that that you would have in a combustion car and the Headroom isn't too bad either, although you wouldn't want it.

To be much taller than me in other places, what do we get? We have pockets on the back of the seats that are quite nice and stretchy. You get two adjustable air vents, but there's no custom climate zone back here, like in other cars. At this price, you might also get a block for those vents and there's also a USB C port and a USB two port. Now, one disappointment I had with this car is that there is no three-prong power outlet like you would find in a home. outlet because you get that on a lot of the Hundi group products and some other cars as well, and it's great because you can charge full devices, you can power things on campsites and this car just doesn't have that, which again is a bit of a deal breaker. lost, a shame a bit of storage, here again you have a bottle holder in the door, it's like the one in the front, it's not tall enough to fit the guide bottle in our cars which has to be placed on its side and then on This drop down armrest, you have two more, but they don't have variable edges, so if your bottle is a little smaller than this one, it might lean in the corners.

The trunk has 402 L, which is on the smaller side for this mid-size segment. and the boot floor is a little high, this leaves you room to store the cables and inflator kit underneath, but it also doesn't leave much room before you start blocking the rear window, one of the reasons I think this selection she's so good. The value is because it has plenty of power channel to the rear wheels. 198KW 430nm is the official figure, and while it's not as quick as some of those brake-collar all-wheel drive rivals, it's also not as expensive now, before you start driving.

Let's talk range, this bace select version gets 470k wltp as we've already talked about, but take it from someone who has driven several EVS with different range capabilities over the last few years. I can tell you once you get past that kind of 450k. After all, you no

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er notice range anxiety—once you're on the highway, you need to stop every two hours for a break—so why not charge while you're at it now? 470 K, is that achieved in the real world? Well, I put that to the

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during a longer range trip I took in this car.

For more information on this, be sure to check out chapter 2 of my long-term review of this car on carsguide now in my 3 months of

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ing. This car produced an average consumption of 16 hours of Kow, which is really good, not only because it is better than what this car is claimed to use, but also because my tests involved multiple very long trips on highways where electric cars are less efficient, so I'm quite impressed. Based on this, for reference, my back-of-the-napkin numbers show that the Mac delivers within 10% of its maximum range on the highway, which is pretty impressive and speaks to proper temperature management for its motor and battery. when it comes to fully charging the Mac.

At a maximum speed of 150 KW in DC, which is becoming the average for this segment, obviously the 800 volt Korean cars can charge a little faster, but with a Charging time from 10 to 80% about 30 minutes, it will be back in operation. nice and fast road on my trips, the maximum my macki seemed to be able to achieve on a DC unit was about 120 or 130 KW, gradually decreasing to 80 KW and then 50 KW as it approached that load level of 80%. I think the long-term ev6 I had before was able to maintain a significantly higher charge rate for a longer period, but the final difference in fast charging only seems to be about 5 or 10 minutes, which is worth considering. if you are comparing a final load.

Note: The port is located on the front left of the car, quite far from the bumper, which means that at some stations I had difficulty getting the fast charging cable out far enough to reach it in this increasingly crowded electric SUV space. medium sized. It's hard for cars to stand out and you're probably wondering if the macki Mustang lives up to the Mustang badge. Does it really drive like a Mustang? The answer is no, you see, the point is that the Macki is too civilized for this to feel more like a European luxury SUV than its namesake car, it largely starts with the seating position, yes.you expect something a little sportier, the macki

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has a very suv seating position, you're very high off the ground, you're looking down over that.

Dash up front, there's nothing inherently sporty about it, but that's until you start driving it because this car has some really fantastic features that I think particularly set it apart from the rest of the midsize SUV space, even those that I really like. they like. When you're sitting high off the ground the first thing I notice is the steering, it's got a lovely weight to it, there's nothing artificial about it, in fact it's very much like any Grand Turo really nice to drive and tip over. The curves are full of sensations, they are full of emotion and that is very rare in an electric SUV.

I think the ride is also very well adapted to our roads. This is something that is notoriously difficult for an electric vehicle to achieve because it carries a lot of extra weight. and Ford Australia tells us that when they acquired this car for Australian standards they had a few tunes to choose from around the world and they chose one that they thought suited them best and they did a fantastic job. The ride in this car is enough firm enough to make the Mac e feel really connected, really sporty and very confident in corners, but it's not so firm that it ruins the ride like many of its competitors;

It's not the smoothest setup on the market. It's not the most comfortable SUV on the market, but it strikes what I think is probably the perfect balance between performance and ride quality in an electric vehicle like this, so when you combine that ride quality and that steering, you get a car that It's really fun. drive even though it looks like a big SUV and you also have a lot of confidence in those corners thanks to that long wheelbase and some pretty good tires, so it's a lot of fun, but I was a little worried that a car with a more tone Sporty like this would be a bit boring on longer trips, but it turned out that wasn't the case at all.

This car is actually a fantastic ride. These seats are still very comfortable after hours behind the wheel. The acoustic glass and the excellent sound system also do their best to keep noise out of the cabin which can also be a problem for electric vehicles as there is no engine noise and I was really impressed with a car that also kept it cool after long drives, making it a great tourer. It's great in the corners and that's why there are so many little things about this car that really won me over over time and just made me like it more and more the more I drove it and now I'm going to say something funny that probably sounds bad, but this car, the way it feels, the way it drives, the way it's a great tourer on the open road, actually reminds me a lot of an FG vcon I used to own, so yeah You are one of those people who have stepped out of a big Australian sedan and are looking for that kind of feeling in an electric car, well this is it now, if there are two main negative conclusions that I would draw from the driving experience of this car: First, the handling has a sort of secondary motion that can get on your nerves a bit, especially if you have a particularly bumpy road at those low speeds.

The second thing is with the tires on this one, while they seem to have a pretty decent amount of grip, they do let a bit of tire noise into the cabin, especially on coarse grain surfaces, they are actually very good on grain surfaces. fine, but on coarse grain surfaces they are not so good, there is quite a bit of hum coming into the cabin, so it's not perfect, but it's pretty good now. I shouldn't talk briefly about that long trip we had as far as range because I can imagine some people might be a little disappointed when loading one of these up to 100% and only seeing 380k on the dash when they should be getting 100k more, but it turns out that There's a pretty obvious reason for that and it has to do with the way the range number shown on the dashboard here is calculated. it seems to take an average of your current trip, not the average of your current trip, so this means that when you load it, it will actually show you a lot less in that Dash than it's actually capable of, which is confusing and Potentially annoying for a new EV owner, but what will happen is that as you continue to drive the car, the range will resolve and level out over time and as I said in the efficiency section of this review, yes, It will be quite close to what was announced. wltp range, so not much to worry about, where does that leave the Mackie in the hierarchy of these types of mid-size electric SUVs?

Because there are quite a few of them and it turns out I've driven almost all of them. Of them, I'd say it's not as comfortable and versatile as something like the ionic 5, but I found it to be more comfortable than the ev6, ​​which I've also had for a long time, in fact, although I liked the ev6 on paper and it's Objectively it's quite a good car, there are so many things about it that can't be objectively measured that I really like and ended up preferring. I would prefer one of these to an ev6 so I would recommend driving both before deciding, there are a handful now.

There are new options in this space as well, cars like the Subaru saltera and their Toyota bz 4X twin who drove the saltera last week and I can tell you it's probably more comfortable than this car, but it's also a lot less sporty if you're looking for it. As far as sportiness goes, this is more what you'll be looking for, but if you're looking for versatility, there are a few different options as well, so you'll really have to drive a few before deciding on one. I think you can now. I can't talk about one of these modern electric vehicles with all these safety features without hiding how annoying the safety features are and luckily in this car they are really relaxed, unlike the K ev6 and Hyundai ionic 5 which have gears quite annoying lane markings and Lane Departure Software, the systems in this car are very relaxed.

I found that it only pushes the steering if I am too close to the lane. It doesn't constantly attack me with beeps and beeps for all kinds of security systems. It's really a driver's task. car and I really appreciate it for the full list of safety features and all that kind of stuff, check out our full review at carguide.ph speec GT has a top five-star safety rating, expect the usual 5-year and Unlimited Warranty kilometers that Ford offers, while the battery is covered by its own 8-year, 160,000 km promise. Now, what can be a little frustrating is that, unlike other EVs on the market, the Mac e needs service every year or 15,000K to comply.

Luckily their schedule, although the service is pretty inexpensive, it's $130 for one service and 180 for the other and it alternates for the first 5 years so it's not too expensive which is what we like to see so There you have it, the Mustang Mac and select I was. I'm really worried about this feeling like just another electric SUV, there would be nothing special about it to justify that pony badge or really separate it from its competitors in this space and there are some very good competitors in this space, but here's the thing. after 3 months of operation it's contagious, it got under my skin, I really liked it in many ways, there are so many little things in this car that I really love, even the styling I liked, so although it's not an electric SUV of great value.

In this space it is full of character and stands out a little from the crowd. It's a great Tura. It's fantastic to drive. In fact, I think it's one of my favorite electric cars and there you go, that's why it's special. For me, I'm very sad to see this go.