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Cool tech? Your phone is your key. The huge hatch swallows a lot of cargo,
and there’s a decent-sized frunk, too. The
There is a key, but its functionality is
Mach-E is about the size of Ford’s Edge,
limited in order to encourage you to use but it’s more spacious because it’s an EV.
your phone. Don’t have a phone? You
can use the keypad to enter the car and
a second keypad to start the car. That
said, are there any Luddites shopping
for a new electric car who don’t have a
smartphone? (BTW, for them, the big,
prominent 15.5-inch screen has a volume
knob.) Ford used the term “physidigital”
to describe the interface, but my mind
automatically tunes out such argot, so
I missed the rest of it. It looks pretty
useful, though.
The Mach-E will initially be available
in three flavors. One is pure rear-drive
with a single large traction motor on the
rear axle. The Mach-E4 will be all-wheel
drive with a second smaller motor added
to the front axle. Then there will be the claims it hits 60 mph in 6.3 seconds. The
Mach-E GT, which will add a twin of Mach-E GT, Ford says, will accelerate like
the rear motor to the front axle for an a Porsche 911 GTS—a 450-hp car we’ve
all-wheel-drive Mustang-flavored perfor- tested hitting 60 mph in 3.1 seconds.
mance SUV. The Mach-E GT will come with 459
Ford claims the base RWD machine horsepower and 612 lb-ft of torque by
will be as quick as the 248-horsepower Ford’s current estimate. The Mach-E
base Porsche Macan. We’ve never tested First Edition will have an estimated 332
a plain old turbo-four base Macan hp and 417 lb-ft. Ford is targeting 255 hp
(though we recorded a 0–60 time of 4.6 and 306 lb-ft for the Mach-E base models.
seconds for the Macan S), but Porsche As for dynamics, Ford is having the

The back seat is
impressively roomy—
three teenagers fit,
no problem.

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