- Oh man.
I have been wanting to try one of these so bad
for so long.
Ford Mach-E.
We freaking got one, Ford's first full electric vehicle.
And you know, a lot of people have been complaining like,
is it a Mustang?
Is it not a Mustang?
It doesn't make V8 noises
or like plow into crowds of people.
But at the same time, just look at it.
I don't know if it like really translates to the video here
but I think it looks sick.
Like coming around the front here compared to like a Tesla,
this is just so much more prominent.
And like when you're in the vehicle looking out
it just feels like (grunting) muscle car.
Under the hood I guess,
you get, what's sort of a frunk
but it's like a cheater frunk.
Ford says its so you can put your drinks in there
and throw in a bunch of ice and I guess go to a frunk party.
But at the same time, it feels kind of just
like a cop out to me
because like I think that they just wanted to save costs,
not waterproofing this and making it a proper funk.
Moving around to the side,
one thing he might notice doesn't exist are door handles.
On the driver's side, I kind of like it.
Like the button works really well.
And you can just pull it out with this little handle.
And you also got the nice little key pad
so that you can punch in like your code to get in.
I personally really appreciate that.
What I'm not a huge fan of
is that on the back you just get a button
and then you kind of have to like pull it out.
Not a huge problem in most situations probably,
but being from the East Coast where like lots
of snow and rain happens, I would be pretty concerned
that you might just get locked out of your back.
If you know, you can't really pull
on it when it freezes shut.
The overall look from the side though, I think is awesome.
Like it has this real,
kind of almost shooting brake style look.
Around to the back.
You know, you get the good old tailgate.
What is loads of storage, in my opinion.
We don't have like boxes to chuck in.
And then down below, there's just your charger.
Yeah it's kind of slow opening and closing.
Like I don't care too much about the closing
but I open my tailgate way faster than that.
So this is adjusted for Brandon actually.
It's further back than I was.
And I'm like 6', heaps of space, especially up top.
This kind of encroaches.
So you probably don't want like three adults back here
but at the same time, what car do you want
three adults in the back?
In the middle we get two cup holders.
Although it looks like, yeah, there's no ski hatch
so you can't put stuff right through the middle.
Also down below, we get type C and type A for charging
and a little spot to stash your stuff.
Oh oh oh that's a big deal right there.
I was going to complain about how the headrest was
when I was up front
but it turns out that you can just adjust it, which is sick.
You don't get a lot of buttons around
but you get enough that it's just nice.
There's this nice little handle for getting out.
And it works really good.
And it's super satisfying.
I think it's made with aluminum with a bit of plastic.
You also get, you know your lock/unlock
and your driving positions.
This is really comfortable.
It's like lightly bolstered on the sides,
but in a way that holds me in really well.
You can kind of shake around like this
and you just feel supported.
And they're comfy in a way
that I find the Tesla ones just aren't.
As for the steering wheel,
this leather that's wrapped around it is fantastic.
Like it's so plush.
And I really like pushing into it.
My only complaint though,
is that this plastic bit down here,
when you're kind of like spinning the wheel around,
I find that my hand kind of gets caught on it.
As for controls though, I think they're great.
You push up and down for like volume
or setting your cruise control.
And the rest is all just really simple.
One complaint that we'll get more into
once we get the infotainment though,
there's a button right here for your assistant
but it only goes to the Ford assistant
and not to your like Android Auto assistant
like it does in the Ford that I own.
And this is just so much worse
because the Ford assistant is just absolutely useless.
So now we know this works well as a normal car
but does the tech hold up?
Honestly, a lot of things about it that are pretty annoying.
Like there's no automatic return to Android Auto button,
and there's no like home screen or return to Ford Sync.
Now the biggest thing this does have over a Tesla
is the Android Auto or Apple CarPlay integration.
It's just, it's the best way to interface with your phone.
It's wireless so I can just, you know,
chuck this in my pocket and it works
or I can chuck it down here and there's wireless charging,
which also seems to just work great.
Now what Android Auto gives me is super easy access
to like Spotify or in my case, like Pocket Casts.
You can just come in here, boom, your podcasts are there.
Like if we come over to Spotify
and we want to play Crab Rave,
we just click on the thing and are like, "Play Crab Rave."
- [Android Auto Assistant] Crab Rave by Noisestorm, sure.
Playing on Spotify.
- It just does it. It's fantastic.
What also is pretty fantastic are the speakers.
I'm not like completely sold on them.
They're Bang and Olufsen and like up here,
there's like a soundbar that goes
all the way across the dash.
I don't know, they're kind of muddy.
So I'll show you what I did here.
I had to take the mid range and just crank it right down
to get anything that sounded good out of these.
But once I did this and had the separation
between the bass and the treble in the mid range,
they're pretty great.
(techno music playing)
Hey Brandon says maybe a little bit better
than the speakers in the Model X.
Don't expect it to blow you away
but at the same time you'll be happy.
Now for the drive modes you get Whisper,
which I think is a comfort mode.
You also get Engage, it's like Sport but not very sporty.
And then you get Unbridled
for when you really want to give her.
Now it is kind of cool,
I need to turn it on for it to show up.
But when you change the modes,
the thing around the speedometer changes
depending on which mode you're in.
And it's just a really nice little touch.
What we're going to show you right now,
this is maybe one of the coolest things.
Now this is available on like a fair few cars now,
but the 360 around the car is just so awesome.
We parked in a parking spot earlier
when we were setting up for this
and Brandon had just taken all of his camera stuff
and put it beside the car.
And then we like drove out and drove back in,
and it was pretty much a small little parking spot,
including things that you just can't see at all.
And using this camera, we were able to park it
without a problem.
It's freaking sick.
Like I would say, like compared to the Tesla, this is worse
but the Tesla does not have the 360.
Not in Brandon's at least.
So I guess, are we ready to drive it Brandon?
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That's hard to say.
I'm really excited to finally actually hit the gas
on this thing.
You kind of do want to normally leave it
not in the Unbridled mode.
I found that like coming on and off
of the gas and hitting the brakes was just a little bit
on the jerky side in there.
Like it's all fine and good
to improve the throttle response.
But at the same time,
I want to be able to drive smoothly while I do it.
Let's come in here, driving modes.
We're in Whisper now.
The drive train feels great,
but I'm pretty disappointed in the suspension.
Like we're coming up on some speed bumps right here
and it's just, ugh.
That's like 12 kilometers per hour
and it is not comfortable at all.
So like compare it to something like the Model Y,
it is very similar, but at the same time
I did not really enjoy the driving dynamics of the Model Y.
So there you go I guess.
This thing's like $74,000 Canadian.
For that amount of money I really feel like
that you should have adjustable dampers.
Now we do have it in Unbridled mode.
We're going into a little tight little corner here.
Oh, wow!
It kind of feels like it gives up a bit early.
It feels like that,
after about a hundred kilometers per hour,
you're really not getting that electric car push.
Whereas in like the Model Y performance especially,
that thing just rockets you
and just keeps on going past like 150.
Now adjustable dampers and more power
will be available in the GT version of this,
which is coming out, I think next year.
But again, this is already like $74,000 Canadian.
I don't want to be spending $100,000 on a car
that is very similar to what, like a $70,000 Model Y.
In the most go mode and hit it.
That's pretty good, but it has a Mustang badge though.
Like, that's very similar to like my Fiesta ST.
This is a 0 to 60 of 6.1 seconds.
Yeah it feels less immediate than a Tesla.
This is definitely fast enough
for you to drive like a bit of a jerk though.
That is for sure.
The steering input's good,
but I'm not getting a whole lot back.
Like it's the same problem that I had with the Tesla,
where like, when I'm turning the steering wheel,
it goes where I point it,
but I'm not like the chassis isn't telling me anything.
The steering wheel isn't telling me anything.
I'm just trusting that everything's fine.
And like, we're not on a track
so it's not like it really matters,
but there is definitely a level of disengagement
from the drive compared to something like my Fiesta.
So Brandon says that he really likes one pedal.
My problem with one pedal is that I find
that I don't like just keeping my foot on the gas so much.
Okay, cruise control is set, lane keeping system on.
So when you have the lane keep and cruise on,
your speedometer goes over to the side
instead of saying staying in the center.
Here's a big challenge for the lane keep assist,
I'm going to just, oh, we're going into a corner.
Will it keep me?
Oh, yep.
That worked really well.
Now there's a truck in front.
Oh, the adaptive cruise does not seem great.
Although at the same time they kind of cut us off.
Now it seems to be just keeping up.
These are some pretty complex turns here
and the lane keep seems great.
Oh, that's a bit scary.
That was a touch scary but at the same time,
like it might've been fine?
I just don't want to find out
in a situation where falling off a bridge is a potential.
I would say this is very comparable to Autopilot
in my little bit of using it, at least.
Yeah, I have no clue how much I trust it either.
Like that was sketchy.
Oh, that's oh yeah it (beep) the bed there.
So there we were just coming up to an intersection,
so it was a slight corner.
And then like, you know how there's left turn
and the yellow line kind of goes like that?
It decided that it wanted to follow that.
And it was not pleasant.
According to Brandon, Autopilot feels like
it's still more refined.
I would say as far as for just driving on the highway,
this would be really good.
I want this in my car.
So to be clear, this is just first impressions.
I don't want to finally compare this to like the Model Y
because I just don't have enough time in this.
I need to spend like a week or maybe even more
getting to know how this actually feels to drive
and what annoyances you just completely forget about
after a week and what stuff is still annoying longterm.
Now this is our first car review on Short Circuit.
So just plop down in the comments, like for one
if you liked it and how we can make it better in the future.
And also what other cars you want us to cover.
So, yeah, I think that's about it.
Honestly, this thing is pretty freaking sick
and I can't wait for more electric cars to come out that.
(engine vrooms)
Oh, oh wait, did you hear that Brandon?
There was a V8 noise in there,
I didn't hear that before.
Oh, that's fake, but I like it.
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So long.