All I have to say after getting a good look at it in person is:
NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! No, no, no, no, no, no, no! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Blasphemy! Sacrilege!
Feelings of nausea and loathing intensify!
I dunno what the designers were thinking, but that is NOT a Mustang - I don't care how many running pony emblems you slap on it.
It's a bland, cookie cutter SUV. Just like multiple others from all the other car companies.
Significant damage to the brand.
Well done, idiots.
Now watch, they'll sell a million of them.
Ack!!! What have they done to my beloved Mustang? It looks like they mated it with a Volkswagen Beetle......
ReplyDeleteGoing the way of the Thunderbird. Took a sporty car and turned it into a family sedan
ReplyDeleteCheck out the stats on it at Ford's website. 250 miles on a full charge, and it only takes overnight to charge. I will stick with my gasoline powered vehicle, thank you very much, I can drive across the country with 10 minute fill-ups at gas stations. And no mention of the cost of installing the charging equipment at your home. And where do you charge overnight if you live in a apartment without a garage? Still too far away from useful utility.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long you'll be able to drive a gas powered car across the country?
DeleteA tax per mile is coming (it's in the already signed infrastructure bill), higher gas taxes too... all this to get you out of your car and into a union built electric car.
How often do you drive cross country?
DeleteIn my 50 years of driving I've done it 3 times and the last time was in 1980.
For most people a 250 mile range is doable.
If they made a truck that can haul say, 10 sheets of plywood and a couple dozen 8 studs, had a 250 mile range, and it was reasonably priced I'd consider it. For the reasonably priced part it must be less than $20k. I can't justify any more than that. My last brand new truck cost $8,888.88 and I still own it 31 years later. A 1991 S10.
One Edsel is one too many. This Edsel II will end the Mustang brand.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought exactly.
DeleteI've twice seen Mustang owners flip off the drivers of these ... things.
ReplyDeleteNope, once the novelty wears off they'll be the only used car with depreciating value
But they are stupid quick: quarter-mile in 12.657 seconds @ 100.02 MPH, the 0-60 time was at 3.89 seconds.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't want one.
Still, a quarter-mile-long extension cord...I could use that. Does it come with a hedge trimmer?
DeleteThere's something odd about that quarter mile time. Granted it's been 30+ years, but I was running big block Dodges (stock and no so stock) in my youth. Cars running in the low 14's had trap speeds in the high 90's, sometimes 100 mph based on rear diff gearing. And were still accelerating. Cars running in the 12's were all hitting 110 mph or faster, again depending on gearing.
DeleteThe only time I saw a 12 second time with a low trap speed, it was running a very high gear ratio (4.56 or so) and topped out before actually getting to the finish line. So I'm assuming the same with the - uhh - electric abomination above. Insanely fast launch, quick mid-range, and then either low top speed or electronically limited top speed. That's the only way I can see getting a 12.6 second time with only a 100 mph trap speed.
Not that any of that matters in real life driving, but still.
4.56 is low ratio .drive shaft turns 4.56 times for every 1 rev. of wheel
Delete3.25 is high ratio
dragsters were 5.5 or so back in the day
Don Curton, the only explanation I could offer to that ET/Trap speed is that electric and IC motors have way different torque curves.
DeleteThe torque curve: It takes just under 4 seconds to get to 60 mph. It then takes 8 more seconds to get up 40 mph faster to 100 mph. My guess top speed is not much past 100 mph.
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ReplyDeleteDrove the base model version, which was slow. Not all of them are fast. I despise car-like SUV's and this one is being copied by VW, Subaru, Hyundai, and others.
ReplyDeleteGet woke- go broke.. ack. What a Fugly vehicle
ReplyDeleteGeorge Carlin said it best; "pussification"
ReplyDeleteEither Carlin or Kim du Toit.
DeleteThat increasing whine you hear is Carroll Shelby spinning in his grave. This will not end well.
ReplyDeleteIt's okay. Steve McQueen is spinning the opposite direction, so the forces balance out.
DeleteThis abortion makes anyone who sees it throw up a little in their mouth.
I saw one tonight. I don't understand why they made it, and I understand even lees of why anyone would buy it. It has a Mustang badge, but no other similarity to a Mustang. Even the Mustang II was better than this.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cruddy thing to do to a classic.
ReplyDeleteYour scientists were so preoccupied with whether they 'could', they didn't stop to think about whether they 'should'. -Ian Malcolm
ReplyDeleteIts ugly!
ReplyDeleteI saw one a couple of months ago and immediately thought it looks like the offspring of a Mustang and a Pontiac Aztec, one of the most mockable vehicles ever...
ReplyDeleteWhen Chevy and Ford, and the other companies (Willys, Chrysler, International, etc.) were run by men with engineering degrees and who knew how to run a lathe and drill press; the vehicles were distinct from one another and were practical.
ReplyDeleteThese days females with marketing degrees and "empowerment of diversity" credentials run the world and you see what we get.
I've seen about 10 of these, all of them Black or Dark Blue, this thing looks hideous in Red. There's something odd about that Humped Hood, it looks to me like it's been exaggerated in Photoshop. Now that I look closer at the Photo it's not even real car it's a 3D Model and some of the proportions are way off. Yeah I just looked at photos of the REAL Cars, this is a Pre-Production Car Show Car from years ago, the actual Cars don't look this bad. I've own 2 of the originals both '66's and why they didn't call this the Maverick I can't imagine the logic.
ReplyDeleteThe only one I've seen was in Amsterdam this summer - it was dark blue and not entirely hideous, just unfamiliar. I was curious, wondered what make it was since there wasn't a logo on the trunk or grill, then I saw the pony on the side. Wondered when they'd land this side of the pond, and I guess it's happened.
ReplyDeletei'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that if anyone buys one of these it's his first mustang; because no one who's ever owned one with the 5.0 liter v8 would be seen dead in that
ReplyDeleteCalm your tips they still have the Mach 1 and Shelby and they look great. An SUV is what it is. Apparently they are expanding the Mustang brand there's a smaller version I think hatchback. Now that's ugly.
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ReplyDeleteThis is what happens when Ford's design board is captured by Great Thunberg and AOC.
ReplyDeleteThis thing makes the Edsel look like a sound a sensible offering.
What an utterly disgusting and thoroughly awful piece of shit.
If Earth First! were to burn 27 of these at a dealer, I'd send them a check.
I haven't been so nauseated since I listened to Shrillary once for 15 seconds.
And it should have been names the "Pinto SUV".
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