Welcome to Tech in the Car! I'm Oliver and this is the Mustang Mach E made by Ford. It takes the
Mustang name but it's Ford's first electric vehicle and in this video, I'm gonna explain
it to you! This is an SUV and it's got a really interesting bit of styling and technology so let's
get into it let's talk about the range of the battery so there's two battery versions available
70 kilowatt hours and 91 kilowatt hours there's an all-wheel drive and a rear wheel drive version and
there's a top-of-the-range mackie gt on the rear wheel drive version the 70 kilowatt hour battery
is good for 273 miles range on the all-wheel drive it's good for 248 miles and the gt is only
available in the larger 91 kilowatt hour battery depending on which model you get the rear drive
all-wheel drive or indeed the gt version that will affect the range but it's comparable with other
cars which you would also be looking at what about pricing this car starts at 42 530 pounds in fact
this model is the base model rear wheel drive with one speed like most electric cars there's also the
all-wheel drive version which is available for about 50 000 pounds and then there's a top mackie
gt which is around 66 and 280 pounds that has 487 ps so about 480 horsepower you can do zero to 60
in 3.7 seconds now i actually had a go in the gt version at the la auto show i went on ford's a
little track around there and i can tell it's very fast let's talk about this front design so first
of all we have these slimline leds i love the look of slimline leds i think they're what makes cars
look very very futuristic but interesting detail there's a mustang logo inside the lights here
that is attention to detail and makes it very very special if we come to the front here we've got a
grill so obviously this isn't a real grill it's an electric car it doesn't need a grill it has got a
vent design around the outside though to make it a little more sporty and of course we have this
power dome effect on the bonnet which has got kind of like a u-shape on it a bit strange because it's
an electric car but it makes it look very very interesting and i've already had somebody someone
ask me if this was a mustang they didn't know that there was an electric version available they
automatically assumed it was a performance ev so that's something which proves maybe ford's point
of making it the mustang brand people are familiar and they assume performance and they therefore
give it more value and don't get me wrong the full top range version the gt is very fast
but somebody can buy one of the more reasonably priced models and still get that brand recognition
which is something which you may not get from other cars of course being the latest electric
car with the latest technology this has all the driver assistance technology as well so
you've got the adaptive cruise control and lane asses and the actual lumber plate is mounted
on a special bracket on the front here which is something which you don't normally get normally
the number is just stuck on the front there is actually a space there so that's a nice little
detail you probably don't care that much about it when driving it but when looking at the design
it's very holistic let's talk about the side design of this car well this is an suv coupe style
first of all the wheels 17 18 inches available this is 18 inches as we come down the side you'll
note that there's no door handle there's a little pulley here and then there's a button you press
in it soft releases and then you can open it and close it and then there's these numbers at the
side so you can actually put a pin in to open and close your car that's a really bit of interesting
design i haven't seen it on any other electric cars and as we come towards the back you've got
these haunches over the rear wheels add to the sportiness again button on the back here no handle
and nothing to pull on the back there and then let's talk about the roof line here so you can
see this coupe s roof line coming down sloping down here on cars which are different colors
the roof line is actually contrast so this bit here will be contrast and be black
and this will be a different color whatever that color will be which means it makes the car look
like it is actually a lot lower and has less roof than it has the benefit of obviously this design
is one it hides the fact that it's slightly higher two it means there's more space inside the car
without necessarily looking at it obviously on the black version that's not as obvious because
they're all the same color but it's a clever bit of design by ford what about rear seats face
in the mustang maki well we press the button to open the door and then we get in here
and as i suspected based on the fact the roof line does that there is a lot of headspace in
here i've got a good i've got this much space there's a lot of space there's a lot of knee
space these seats are actually quite slim in front this is a very very surprisingly spacious
and you know i'll touch on the interior in a minute but the quality in here is fantastic
this really does feel like a car which is worth 40 000 pounds it feels very very nice in here
down between the back seats you have two usbs one type c one standard and you know like i said lots
of space there's an arm rest so you can pull it down with two cup holders that's nice to see
and yeah i'm i'm very impressed with the back here and you know there's lots of space too you don't
feel like you don't have any space when the rear window is closed and the door is closed you're
fine for space it doesn't feel like you're cramped at all and there's good visibility and of course
press a button and it automatically unlatches with these futuristic automatic soft close soft
open doors let's talk about the rear design of the mustang mackie so first of all these tail
lights are like you'd get on a mustang just like you'd expect on the muscle car that you can get
exactly the same so that's a really interesting design feature obviously we got the mustang logo
again on the back here what about space in the back of this car well it is an suv so there's
a ton of space it's a manual tailgate but you can see there's room for plenty of suitcases and
the floor of this can actually be pulled out and there is a space underneath there for you to put
other stuff in there as well so it's very spacious in here there's little cubbies there's some hooks
there's some tether points so it's very much designed with practicality in mind which is
always a good thing this is the interior of the 2022 mustang mackie and the interior of
this car is beautiful this car interior feels like it belongs in a bentley honestly the
seats are amazing with their quilting they're so comfortable the materials on the dashboard we've
got soft touch plastics we've got this interesting i don't know what this material is on the top here
but this feels really nice we've got a metallic finish here we've got stitching it's just it's a
really really nice interior there's tons of space down here even the gear tunnel i suppose it's not
called a gear tunnel anymore because there are no like gears other than one but even that is covered
in leather and stitching and looks beautiful everything in here is immaculate it feels
fantastic the only bit which maybe lets it down a bit is the steering wheel i feel like the steering
wheel could be a bit nicer but you know it looks really good this infotainment screen is 15.5
inches it's high resolution it's amazingly good quality it's got wireless android auto and apple
carplay and it's got a physical volume controller which i love this is really high quality with this
metallic finish it looks amazing i love the fact they've got physical control there not just touch
screens considering how big this touchscreen is the infotainment here really really good
ford's new sync system lacing system is very very impressive and i like it a lot and then
we have this little driver's display which is very small and compact only a few inches across
but it's got all the information you can want and it isn't obstructed by the steering wheel when
you're moving the steering wheel up and down so this is all very very cleverly thought out the way
that this all fits together you can see it's been thought about in great detail and i can see this
is a car of detail when you look at the mustang logo in the front headlights when you look at
all these little areas inside the car outside the car the buttons on the side of the door it's all
a sign of a car which has got a lot of attention to detail and is really really comfortable with
these seats by the way i said they look beautiful they're also really really comfortable so how
is this car to drive let's take it for drive and find out driving the mackie so this car is an suv
it's got a higher ride height than most other suvs i suppose it's most comparable maybe to a model y
or an ev6 here in the uk and we're in whisper mode now and i've got the one pedal breaking off so
it's not coming to a full stop i have to use the brake just like a traditional car to stop going
over the speed bumps in the park it goes over them without too much difficulty doesn't shake
me around a bit but you can feel obviously in whisper mode it's very much maximizing efficiency
and it's not necessarily the most responsive driving experience if we turn it into active now
immediately it feels a bit more like it's ready to go and a bit more like it's got a bit more
oomph in it and that makes it a bit more enjoyable to drive now what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna turn
on the one pedal driving it's interesting that by default is off and it really brings you to a stop
basically straight away the one pedal arriving i mean literally there's like take your foot off and
you stop it's very very aggressive on the driving now i do like the one pedal driving i think one
federal driving is good i think that it saves you energy because it's putting energy back into the
motors into battery even and also it's just easier to drive like this i think it's safer
too though that isn't statistically proven but i feel like maybe it improves your driving that's
how i feel about my driving anyway if we go into untamed untamed is the unbridled performance mode
where we've got over 260 horsepower 269 horsepower and obviously as you move for the range it gets
faster with the all-wheel drive version and then moving onto the gt version which has around 480
horsepower and can be zero at 16 3.8 seconds which i had to go at in la at the los angeles auto show
it's definitely a very capable car driving on the roads i feel very confident i've got a good
viewing position because we're slightly higher up as well the steering feels like it's very
comfortable and it feels a lot more natural if i'm honest with you than the rs3 i drove yesterday
the rs3 definitely felt a lot more weird with the steering it had like less lock or more like
i should say and so it felt like you hit the end of the steering really really quickly which was a
bit strange but this car does not feel like that it feels like a really really good electric car
that you can drive along and you can enjoy and that's really what we want from an electric car
we've got good range as well it's telling me 227 miles so this is the smaller battery size
the 70 kilowatt hour battery it's actually you can get up to 273 miles and then if we go up to a 91
kilowatt hour battery then we get over 300 miles and one of the great things about electric cars
people always forget this is you can start every day with a full charge because you plug it in at
home and it's fully charged and in most driving circumstances i think the average journey the
people making a week is about 160 miles well if you've got a range of 300 or something miles then
really you only need to charge it twice a month to full and if you're plugging in at your home
probably an hour or two and it'll be fully charged when driving so you know really really easy to
keep this car topped up with charge and to drive it and enjoy the experience of driving it too
and i think that's a very important thing to take into consideration so what my thoughts on this car
amazing interior great infotainment system very comfortable to drive very capable good
range this is a fantastically good electric car and a really good first car for ford
as well and you should definitely consider checking one of these out if you're looking
for an EV because it might be that this is a car that you'll like the best and want to go for!