Purists Look Away: The Ford Mustang Mach-E Just Outsold The Gas Mustang 2 To 1
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Because it's an electric SUV and not a pony car. It's an entirely different vehicle, apart from the name slapped on it.
I don't know why they compare them, it's like comparing the Porsche 911 to cayenne, I bet they sell more of the latter
It's almost like the market for SUVs is much broader than for two seater sports cars (because ain't nobody riding comfortably in the back of a pony Mustang).
They do. But Porsche didn't call their SUV the Porsche 911 Cayenne. They called it the Porsche Cayenne. So you don't go in expecting a sports car. You still get a very sporty SUV that, at least in first gen, truly was the best SUV you could get if you wanted to go fast and still be comfortable and in the second gen, even the small 3.0 diesel version is plenty fun on the track, let alone the V8 diesel or the turbo petrol V8 version. But they never called it a 911.
The whole Mustang Mach-E thing is stupid. Just call it a Ford Mach-E and it'll sell the same. Don't ruin the Mustang badge with a crossover.
Or the Escape Mach-E. They already have a compact SUV line.
Rage bait. The article and @sunshine just want you engaged.
A family SUV with a 7500 credit outsold a 2+2 rwd sports coupe?
I'm SHOCKED! FLABBERGASTED! BAMBOOZLED!
Holy shit what rage bait 🤣
It's bizarre to me that the thing is called a Mustang. Just name it something else and put the same ev transaxle in the regular Mustang.
They wanted awareness.
They got awareness.
Nobody is skipping the mustang because it shares a nameplate.
Mission 100% successful.
I mean, if I had the money, I would skip both and buy the transaxle as a crate engine and put it in something that's actually interesting.
Some people like a warranty on their dailies. Myself including.
I also race a Saturn sw2 with an ecboost. There is room for both.
Ok, another point. You have absolutely no way of knowing if the mustang name has had anything to do with it's success. People shopping for an ev suv probably don't care that much about a muscle car lineage. Saying that this discussion proves it does work is just marketing nonsense.
I mean wasn't it one of the best bang for buck EVs at one point?
My own problem with it isn't even that it's an electric Mustang. It's that it's a crossover (I wouldn't even call it an SUV) Mustang.
I own one, and I bought it because I needed AWD and wanted an EV. The pony badge made zero impact on my decision, and I would have preferred a smaller vehicle if it had been an option. It very literally was the best bang for my buck.
The news to me was that the credit was still available. Turns out the selling spree was because the $7500 credit was expiring September 30th. So the credit is now gone, another master stroke from the stroke master
I'm gonna borrow that from you, because I find it hilarious!
Use it to your hearts content 🥂
Sales were likely inflated never of the ended credit as well. Lord of ev sales this month.
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I love the idea of the Mach-E. It’s a very sleek and sporty looking crossover SUV and I’d love to have one. I just wish they’d have named it something other than a Mustang.
In my opinion, it’s like Ford took a giant shit on what the Mustang used to represent. Of course some of the other models they released under the mustang brand also did the same thing so…
Case in point: 1974–1978 Mustang II. God that thing was an antithesis to something like the ‘69 Mach 1
They've all been doing that for several years now. Ford with the Lightning and Mustang. Mercedes' AMG. BMW's M. Cadillac's V. Dodge Dart being an econo car. They all just love to shit all over their own prestige they've built.
...I don't understand what you're trying to say here. I know what all of these are.
Nothing you said is accurate. You must never have seen the Fast and Furious or you would know there was a Lightning in the 90s. It is not new.
Other brands started shitting on their own branding in the late 00s, early 10s.
Was there a Cimarron V I'm unaware of? ML320 AMG? I'm still not sure what you're trying to say but whatever it is you're being an unnecessary giant dick about it so you can get fucked and blocked. You don't know what you're talking about.
Ford named a truck Maverick, too.
The Ford Maverick car was kind of a cool-looking car in the late 70s. But they turned it into the most generic vehicle possible.
I could probably go on for a while if I tried. Ford seems to be exceptionally bad.
Ford Europe are doing this too, Puma has become a Fiesta SUV and Capri is a mid size SUV, just use a new name ffs, I'm not going to nostalgically buy a car based on the name that bears no resemblance to the car that's giving me nostalgia.
at the end of the day, it's another crossover, not a wagon, and so I don't care about it
The gas mustang earns 5-10% profit margins, whereas Ford's EV division loses $5 billion per year.
I've labelled it a hatchback... Reminiscent of...
And we can't even downvote this nonsense
Skill issue