We've now spent over 6 months with the Ford Mustang Mach-E Premium. It's part of a series of longer term reviews we are doing and it's the first cab off the rank. After spending time with the car as a family vehicle - would we actually spend our own money on one? Paul Maric gives you the rundown on how it has gone.
Hardness tester, noise and lane keeping results: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/121Auf6HGvaBqRToYcuAz94alin7Sw55SpOPECBDlnKE
Skip Ahead: Intro: 00:00 Exterior thoughts: 00:53 What has it been like: 01:51 Economy: 05:15 Final verdict: 06:36
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00:00G'day, I'm Paul. So, the Ford Mustang Mach-E. We've finally finished our time with the car.
00:05I told you in the last video we shot here that I wanted to spend some time with this.
00:09It's now been about six months with it, and today I want to run you through all the good stuff and the bad stuff,
00:14and whether I would actually buy this car as a family car.
00:18And certainly, if you're in the market now, there are so many more choices than there were six months ago when we started this loan.
00:23So, there's a lot of competition, and does this still stack up? Well, we're going to find that out today.
00:29Just as a reminder, this is the Mach-E Premium. So, mid-spec, you've got the entry-level rear-wheel drive.
00:35Mid-spec has bigger battery rear-wheel drive, and then the GT is the full fruit with all-wheel drive performance.
00:41This kind of sits in the middle there, still gives you the punch that you need, but is just rear-wheel drive with a bigger battery.
00:47What's it been like? Well, let's jump inside. We'll go for a bit of a drive.
00:51Just on the outside first, though, I really do love this colour. It turns so many heads.
00:55It just looks different to everything else on the road.
00:57And it's one of the things that you realise when you're driving it, that you don't really want to be driving just the popular thing that everyone has.
01:04Like, there are so many Teslas out on the road, and now with a huge variety of Chinese market cars, a lot of Volkswagen products now coming as full electric options.
01:12There's so much more to actually pick from.
01:14And then when you get different-looking stuff like this that doesn't just look pedestrian, it is kind of cool to be out on the road with it.
01:19Actually, before we jump in, someone ran into the back of the car a little while back, and it's funny.
01:25You look at the amount of damage on here, you could barely tell anything has happened.
01:29Her car, which was an older car, she wasn't concentrating, was, like, pushed in.
01:33So it's pretty cool to see how much protection there is here for low-speed impacts.
01:38So Ford wanted us to hold off fixing this until we return the car, so that'll get fixed shortly.
01:42But really good to see the amount of protection that you have there.
01:45So let's hop in.
01:46We'll go for a spin, and I'll run you through the highlights and the lowlights of living with the Mustang Mach-E.
01:51Okay, so we have just hit the road in the Mach-E.
01:56Let me run you through things I like and don't like about the car.
01:59So the first one is probably the most immediately obvious one, and especially since we've been testing a lot of electric cars recently that are new to the market from, like, the Volkswagen brand, their rides are just really good.
02:11This, on the other hand, is very firm.
02:13Like, it is, it's just way too firm, and it kind of feels the same way that our Tesla Model Y did the last one that we owned.
02:20It was just not properly tuned for comfort driving with the family on board.
02:25This, in particular, is tuned for sportiness, which kind of makes sense, given that it is a Mustang.
02:30But in my mind, they really should have factored in, you know, the fact that this is going to be used by families, and it needs to have a much smoother ride.
02:37So there is an update to this car coming.
02:39They sort of tweaked a few things here and there, so I'll be curious to see whether suspension was one of those things, because it would definitely benefit from a much softer ride.
02:48Outside of that, though, I've genuinely been really impressed with this car.
02:52I didn't think that I was going to enjoy it, and going from, you know, a Tesla, which was tech king and had all of those cool features, had lots of software updates that were deployed to the car.
03:04You know, this had barely any updates at all, and the tech, in my mind, from a remote connectivity point of view, isn't very good.
03:13You can still remotely access the car, lock and unlock, start and stop charging, all the basic stuff, climate control.
03:18But you can't really sort of go overboard in terms of what you can do like you can with the Tesla app.
03:22Didn't really become that much of an issue, and it's all kind of overcome by the fact that you've got a really good infotainment system.
03:29The fact that you can have Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, you don't need to have Tesla's proprietary system.
03:35And the Tesla one looks good on the surface, but it's super fiddly.
03:38The voice controls don't really work that well.
03:41You just want to be able to get stuff done, and you can't really do it.
03:43Whereas here, everything is easy to access, the infotainment is fast, it's got smartphone mirroring, so I can just do everything I need to do.
03:50And the voice recognition is great, because I'm able to use the smartphone voice recognition that just does everything.
03:55So, from those points of view, I think that they've done well here in terms of the technology.
04:00As a family vehicle on space, the most important thing to me is that my wife likes the car, and she absolutely loved this.
04:07And I think probably the biggest thing that she loved was the screen ahead of the driver here.
04:11Just being able to see your speed while you're driving, I just think, is a critical item.
04:16And again, throwing back to our Tesla, you just couldn't see that.
04:19Everything was off to the side here, and it was really frustrating to deal with.
04:21So, having a screen ahead of you just makes life so much easier, and this is something that I think all cars need to be fitted with.
04:27Just this simplicity thing of having one screen just doesn't really work.
04:30Now, one thing that is, you know, you get used to it if it's the only car that you drive, but the brake pedal, it is so sensitive.
04:38You kind of fly through the windscreen every time you tap it.
04:41It's really, really aggressive, and that's something else they need to sort out.
04:45You don't get over the performance.
04:48Like, rear-wheel drive punches you back in the seat.
04:50It's just, it's a really good feeling, and it's not over the top.
04:54You know, in our single car review, we showed you that if you switch everything off, it can actually hang the tail out, and you can have some fun with it.
05:00And that sort of translates to driving range as well.
05:02You're getting a really good driving distance out of the vehicle, like 378Ks at 70%.
05:08It's a really realistic driving range.
05:10You're able to drive long distances.
05:11You've got a big battery here, and it does what you need to do from a family perspective.
05:15Now, what about economy?
05:17Let's crack this open.
05:19So, since we picked up the car, we've done, we're at 11,600Ks now, so we've done a fair bit of driving.
05:26Well, that looks like a bit of a bug there, because for some reason, it has reset the troop computer on its own, and then it's stopped counting our energy use.
05:38So, the only one I can go to is the last 1,600Ks, which is showing 18kWh per 100Ks.
05:43So, when I actually was running this and checking it properly, we were sitting around the 16kWh per 100K mark, which is slightly higher than some of the other cars in the segment, but still fairly reasonable in terms of what you'd expect from a vehicle like this.
05:58So, not the end of the world, but certainly could be better.
06:01But given that it has a big battery, you're already getting that extra driving range anyway, so you kind of overcome that regardless.
06:08From a kid's perspective, I had my daughter's seat set up in the back of the car the entire time.
06:12It's easy to click in and unload.
06:15The headrests don't get in the way, which I do find with some cars, it's really hard to fit child seats with the headrests in the position that they're in.
06:22This had plenty of room in the boot.
06:23You have storage in the front and also the rear, so there's plenty of places to put little bits and pieces.
06:28So, from a family car perspective, there is plenty to get away with there and plenty of places to put things if you're going on longer distance drives.
06:36So, what is the final verdict?
06:38Spent about six months with the car.
06:40I came away really liking it.
06:42If you are going to buy one of these, the mid-spec is, I think, where it's at.
06:46I've seen Ford advertising these for fairly cheap.
06:49You can get DriveAway, the base model of this, for around the same price as a Model Y.
06:54I think it's around $60,000.
06:56Ford is struggling to sell these, and I think a lot of it comes down to pricing.
07:00Ford initially dropped the price to start with, but didn't follow up with subsequent price drops.
07:04And at the moment, they're kind of sitting in this lofty area where it is quite expensive.
07:10Now, it's quite expensive compared to all the other stuff on the market, like your Chinese entrance and the Tesla product as well.
07:16The problem they've got is that since this was launched, you've had a litany of other brands,
07:20like your German brands, Volkswagen, Skoda, all that sort of stuff, come to the fray.
07:25And as they come in, they kind of then push the market down as well.
07:29So, it's currently sitting in a position where I think it is priced a little bit too high, which is a shame,
07:33because the car itself is really good.
07:35And I think they've done a great job with it, and I'm keen to see what the updates are like.
07:39And I hope that it fixes stuff like that brake pedal feel on the ride,
07:42because they are really the only two things that detract from me wanting to own one of these longer terms.
07:47So, there it is, guys.
07:49A long-term test of this, my summary on it.
07:52Let us know what you want us to do for future long-term tests.
07:55Do you want us to include more information, less information?
07:57Is there something you specifically want me to focus on?
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