Love it! I’d drive that before the Mach-e. But I’m weird and would love to have a 69 ecoline van. With cregars and a bubble window.Don't need to eat a turd to know it tastes like shit. Perhaps some of us simply have zero desire to drive a crossover, no matter how fast it is. Looks and styling and heritage matter. Maybe not to you, but to many enthusiasts, they do.
The Mustang is Ford's brand to do with what they want. They've chosen to break with tradition by putting the galloping pony on an electric Escape. That's after 55+ years of 2+2 sports coupes that embody their own class of vehicle (the Fishy-car). We don't have to like it, or "get over it" or "just try it". If we wanted a fast crossover, we'd have bought fast crossovers. Instead, we bought Pony cars.
I wonder if you'd proselytize as much if the Mach-E was a minivan, but with the same level of performance. I can't think of anything that could make a minivan desirable.
Actually, scratch that...Dodge, make this a real thing!
Exactly this. I've lived in Europe for most my life, so manuals are the life for me, plus I'm a weirdo about manual transmissions. This has vastly limited my choices of vehicles in the US. If I didn't want poverty spec stuff with little bit of pep, I settled on '18 Accord 2.0 6spd. Got me power hungry, I settled on Bullitt. But, in about what, 5 years, there'll be like 3 models with stick shift? :(Not true. Every generation has had gearheads (petrolheads for you limey bastards). We've always been the minority. I've brought this up before. You have to go out of your way to buy the more expensive, less efficient, less practical, and probably less comfortable car to be into performance vehicles. This has been true for decades, and can be said about every make/price range.
Get out of here with your logic. This is an online forum where common sense doesn't apply and you by rule must insult other people's choices! Are you new here or something??
Is it just how the picture was stretched, or is that pony REALLY THICK?? If yes, I see what you did there.Hmmmm...I think we need to intensify the memes.
I get both of your points gents, but I would dare to disagree little bit with the highlighted sentence - of course lots and LOTS of people are going for SUVs because that's the thing these days. And manufacturers are telling us that's what consumers want.
Been waiting for the to give the Hellcat treatment to the Pacifica for a while now, even though they mentioned they're going away from that engine I think.Don't need to eat a turd to know it tastes like shit. Perhaps some of us simply have zero desire to drive a crossover, no matter how fast it is. Looks and styling and heritage matter. Maybe not to you, but to many enthusiasts, they do.
The Mustang is Ford's brand to do with what they want. They've chosen to break with tradition by putting the galloping pony on an electric Escape. That's after 55+ years of 2+2 sports coupes that embody their own class of vehicle (the Fishy-car
I wonder if you'd proselytize as much if the Mach-E was a minivan, but with the same level of performance. I can't think of anything that could make a minivan desirable.
Actually, scratch that...Dodge, make this a real thing!
I've ridden in a few SUVs/CUVs. Enough to know without question that they simply aren't for me. Keep in mind that not even wanting to ride in them guarantees that I wouldn't enjoy driving them, let alone be the least bit willing to buy one. For me, an EV SUV/CUV starts with a poor choice and makes it worse.
We also live in a strange time where one vehicle must be everything for everyone. There's less sporty vehicles, but they're also dedicated vehicles generally. I don't need back seats, that's why dailying my Bullitt is awesome. But if I needed more seats, Bullitt would obviously be out as a daily.
It is a bit of chicken and egg. Sedan sales dropped because of the newer shinier SUVs, and now CUVs. So OEMs started featuring their newest technologies in CUVs and not so much in sedans, making the disparity in demand even wider. Except for Hyundai Kia. They have actually launched some of their newest technology in Hyundai Sonata and Kia K5. Things like operating the car with Smartphone Key that you can transfer to others as easily as a text message and SmartPark ( or is it SmahtPahk like in the commercial?). Where you can get out of the car and have it park itself into and later out of a tight parking spot. I question that one. Why park my car in a spot that’s too narrow for me to open the doors? Just begging to get dinged by the doors opening on the two adjacent cars that don’t have SmahtPahk.
Right, good analogy, what came first versus what we're stuck with now.
Everyone wants to sit up high. It's this theme of feeling above everyone else to an extent. Plus, taller vehicle are harder to see over, so the next new model is a bit taller yet, and then it keeps going that way.
That a bit redefines the term "skidmark" on your underpants doesn't it...Ideal driver height:
And I live in an area where the GT350 can only be on the road between late April and early October. So I need another vehicle. And driving the Mach E was a total and utter hoot. No, I haven't driven the GT Performance yet (the one I ordered), but I have driven the Premium with the ERB in eAWD. Its fast as heck for an SUV, faster than my Explorer Sport (with some mods) than the wife's F-Pace S Dynamic (by a good margin too). Add to this we are moving to Big Island soon, and driving the GT350 full time on Big Island, as anyone knows, is a good way to blow out wheels and tires and damage frames constantly... So yep, the MachE makes total sense as a second vehicle for me. The fact that it is part of the Mustang family is only one of the many minor benefits it brings to the table.
Then you have no ground to stand on. You don't like it, which is fine. But the simple fact of the matter is the Mach E IS a good driving vehicle. And if the GT and GT Performance Editions only add more power, MagneRide, better brakes etc will make it one of the better performing crossovers out there. And there is nothing turd or shit about that.
I am NOT driving my GT350 in ice and snow. No one said it was just about rubber. Not once. So kindly stop assuming.
News flash. There is a huge difference between being shit and one thinking something is shit... I think any car built by Stellantis is total and utter crap.
All it took for me were Sottozero 3 all around and the Bullitt was a beast in the snow!I didn't say it was just about rubber. There's a driver involved too. Salt washes off. Apparently you're still salty about something
