The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach E Is Premium SUV With Big Improvements in Range & Power

If you're in the market for a premium long-range electric SUV, it's pretty hard to beat the combination of the Tesla Model Y. In fact, if you want to buy a legacy auto manufacturer, it was really Ford that finally challenged Tesla's dominance when they introduced the Mustang Mach-E all the way back in 2021. Now, as you guys know, this space has consistently been updated with new rivals pretty much coming in every year. So for 2024, Ford is finally giving the Mustang Mach-E its first significant refresh. And even though the outside may look pretty similar to your neighbor's 2023 model, underneath the skin Ford has made some big hardware changes that have significantly improved the power, the acceleration, and of course the range. So as you can see this week, we are driving a more mid-trim of the Mach-E known as a premium with the standard range battery pack and the optional all-wheel drive system. And the big question I went answered, if you guys have finally been waiting to pull the trigger and go fully electric and you want a compact SUV, has Ford made enough changes to the Mustang Mach-E to keep this model competitive? Stay tuned to find out. So on the outside, Ford didn't need to make that many changes to the Mustang Mach-E. It was already one of the best looking electric vehicles out there. But if you guys remember, the Mustang Mach-E is also one of the few out there that also has one of the largest frunks. So I'll go ahead and pop the hood and show you guys what kind of space you can find underneath here. As you can see, because of that long hood, which is supposed to pay an homage to of course the Mustang name, you do have one of the biggest frunks that you're going to find in the segment. Now underneath this hood, you can see this space, which I remember when it first came out, Ford had these like dividers that divided it up into like four quadrants. It's really great to see that they've removed that over the years. And what you're going to find is around 4.8 cubic feet of storage space. You can see the mobile charger fits in here nicely. There's also a drain where you could use this as a cool box. There's a little release there. There's a light. There's cup holders in here, so you can use it for tailgating. And it just really makes the perfect space to hide things that you don't want to have inside the cabin. But once we're underneath here, let's go ahead and talk about the powertrain specs. Now Ford made some big hardware changes. Like I said, the battery packs are essentially all new. You can take your pick between either the standard range battery pack, like this particular model here, which measures 72 kilowatt hours, or the extended range, which measures 91 kilowatt hours. That is supposedly the usable capacity. That's what Ford says on their website. So it actually is a slightly bigger battery if you're looking at the gross capacity. My test car being the dual motor all-wheel drive version means we have an electric motor in the front and electric motor in the rear. The rear electric motor is all new. It's now a Ford-designed in-house electric motor. And this model here makes 325 horsepower and 500 foot-pounds of torque. That's an increase of about 61 horsepower and 113 pound-feet of torque compared to a rear-wheel drive version. So with all-wheel drive, you not only get improved traction, but you also get more power. If you step it up to the extended range battery pack, Ford will turn up the wick on the power to 365 ponies, so 40 more, and 500 foot-pounds of torque. The base rear-wheel drive standard range model will have as low as 264 horsepower and 387 pound-feet of torque. The GT versions can offer up to 480 horsepower and 700 foot-pounds of torque with the performance upgrade package. It all goes out through a one-speed reduction gear transmission, obviously. And Ford claims this model is good for 0 to 60 in 4.6 seconds. It has a top speed of around 114 miles an hour. And the Mach-E, sadly, are not rated to tow, at least here in the U.S. And as this vehicle sits, it weighs in at just over 4,700 pounds. Technically, if you guys go for a GT or the new Rally version, it'll be about 200 pounds heavier. The lightest Mach-Es will be the rear-drive standard range. Those can be around 4,500 pounds. But again, this is all still very impressive performance. And it's great to see Ford has made some big upgrades in that department, which they didn't really need to do, but they wanted to, to keep this model competitive. But let's go ahead and close up the hood and talk about the exterior styling. Now, this particular one that I'm showing you is a new color painted in vapor blue metallic. It kind of replaces infinite blue, I believe, in the Mustang Mach-E portfolio. And this premium version is one up from the base select trim. And I have to say, the Mach-E styling has definitely aged well, although I do still prefer the way the GT looks with the actual fake grill. If you don't have that, you can see you have this almost like mustache look to the grill, where it has this kind of gloss black border that goes around the top portion of the grill. The running horse there, as you can see, is not illuminated like it is on the GTs. You have a front camera system, integrated parking sensors, active grill shutters, some gloss black, and you can see the headlights also have the sequential full LEDs with the sequential turn signal. You have a new LED light signature that kind of reminds you of the three points that you see in the new Mustang Coupe. You can see these are an LED low and high beam. And overall, it just looks premium. It looks sophisticated, and it looks really good with this vapor blue metallic exterior color. Now, moving around the side profile, you can see the Mach-E is an SUV, as you can see, but it's supposed to look more like a coupe style SUV. And it doesn't share a platform, obviously, with the gas powered two-door Mustang. Instead, Ford says it's built on a dedicated EV architecture at 187.5 inches long, with a 117.5 inch wheelbase. This is a little bit bigger versus some of its competitors, but about the same size as a Tesla Model Y. You can see the premium version comes with these new 19 inch wheels, which as you can see, have a really interesting sinister gray finish to them. These wheels are optional for $1,200. They have multiple spokes, but they're designed to be more of an aerodynamic look. You have a four piston brake caliper behind it. You'll get larger brakes on the GTs, and you have a 225 by 55 R19 tire, Michelin Premacy All Seasons. The Mach-E actually has a pretty narrow tire. Ford did that for range purposes. You have an all independent suspension. There's kind of gloss black going along the actual wheel arches that go along the side profile of the vehicle. That Mach-E E4 badge there has to do that it's all wheel drive. If there was an X there, it would actually have the bigger battery pack, but this one doesn't have that obviously. And then looking over here, there's the charge port door to access the J1772 plug with the CCS combo. Now this vehicle will still accept a maximum of 150 kilowatts. Ford actually is shipping the Mach-Es now with a Tesla adapter. So an NAC plug, the company will eventually go to the NAC plug entirely for 2025. So you can actually charge this vehicle at a Tesla supercharger and it'll accept up to 150 kilowatts. Like I said, you can go from 10 to 80%. In about 30 minutes, it has a 10.9 kilowatt onboard charger. So it'll take about 10 hours to charge on a level two. You can see the mirrors are power folding. That's included with the premium trim, integrated turn signals, cameras, of course, black painted, and you can see lots of gloss black around the actual area here. The sunroof, as you can see, my test car is missing the panoramic roof. That panoramic glass roof is optional. I believe it's like $1,500 extra, but it doesn't actually open to vent air. It just is there to let you basically let in more light. Ford did this little clever trickery here where they painted this black to kind of create a more coupe-like effect to the roofline of the Mach-E. And then looking at the back, you can see the design hasn't changed at all. You still have the signature tri-bars for the LED turn signals with the sequential LED turn signal as well. Full LED taillights, as you can see, there's a little subtle spoiler over here, rear window wiper. So that's very traditional. You can see your parking sensors are nicely included there. Your reverse light is back there. It's all LED, like I said. And then there's the running horse. The GT trim will actually say GT at the back that replaces the running horse logo. Now looking at the cargo area, push that, you can see a power lift gate is included. And the Mach-Es have pretty much average cargo space. You're looking at around 29 and a half cubic feet of storage space. You can see it's a pretty usable area. There's also an underfloor storage area here, and you can also lower this if you'd like to create a lower floor. There's also a fix-a-flat kit, no actual spare tire. If you want to fold down the back seat here, Ford expands the cargo to around 60 cubic feet, which again is average, but you're going to find a little bit more from something like a Tesla Model Y. So on the outside, Ford didn't really make that many changes to the vehicle. It's still one of the more attractive looking EV SUVs out there, but let's go ahead and take a look at the interior. This is where again, Ford didn't really make any changes. So this should be pretty familiar to those of you who had the pre-refreshed Mach-E. Now before we get inside, you can see here is the key fob for the vehicle. Every Mach-E comes standard with Ford's intelligent access key, which has the usual buttons here for unlock, lock, power lift gate, panic. However, no remote start from the fob itself. You can access the remote start through the FordPass app, which you can basically access through your smartphone, and you can also use your phone as a key. You can get that set up if you guys are an owner of this vehicle. Now, as you can see, approaching the vehicle, this is where the Mach-E had a really interesting design. As you can see, there are no exterior door handles on the vehicle. That's all for aerodynamics. Instead, there's a little area here. If you push that, that's what opens up the door for you. It also has a safety feature there where it won't actually let you close the door on your finger. This little area here allows you to basically pull the door open, and it's a really nice design. You heard it like kind of unlock itself. That's basically will allow you to close the door once you've moved the door out of position. But as you can see, my test car here with the vapor blue exterior has the black ActiveX interior. So this is a synthetic leather, basically a bio leather. It's got a really nice material. It feels really high quality. Actually, the seats are perforated. They are 12-way power adjustable for the driver with a three-person memory function, which is nice. We can also set up a driver profile. These seats are three-level heated, but Ford sadly still does not offer ventilated seats. That's a feature that I wish they would have added with the refresh. So that's somewhat of a missed opportunity for them. In terms of the materials, you can see the Mach-E has surprisingly nice materials. This area here is covered with a soft touch injection molded plastic. It almost feels like that ActiveX leather material. There's some silver painted plastic trim here, leather covering this area, along with the armrest pad. As you can see, this is the release to open up the door. It's not like a electronic digital latch door handle. And then the windows controls, they are one touch up down for all four. They actually have a relatively high quality feel. There's an upgraded Bang & Olufsen stereo. That's one of the reasons why you go for the premium trim. And then down here, you can see this is where there is a cheaper plastic material here. And you can really see some of the flash molding that doesn't look very nice, but additional storage in the door pocket as well. And if you guys prefer a lighter interior, there's also like a space gray interior as opposed to this black, but this definitely makes a great first impression still. Now getting inside, you can see the step-in height is kind of lower. It only has 5.8 inches of ground clearance. So even though this is an SUV, it's really just a lifted hatch. You can see as I close the door, the door has still a very solid sounding thunk. And then unlike Tesla or Volkswagen, for example, there's still a traditional start stop button. So push that, you can see it has the new or the current Ford chime and the company didn't really change anything else at all in terms of the tech. You can see the driver still faces like a 10-inch display over here that gives you all your useful information for your range, for your speed, of course, obviously. And then at the center here, you have the massive 15.5-inch display here. It's oriented in a portrait style. This has Ford's latest SYNC 4A system, but not their digital experience software that we first saw in the Explorer, of course, and the Lincoln Nautilus. My phone is connected as you can see via the wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. The screen itself is beautiful looking. It's also relatively quick and snappy. There's a big volume knob here. There's dual zone climate control, which as you can see, I can pull it up here in the screen. But I appreciate that Ford uses traditional adjusting air vents as opposed to an electronic system like you'd find in like a Tesla. Material quality up here is, as you can see, hard-touch plastic, but there's almost like a speaker here for the Bang & Olufsen stereo that extends along the entire dash. It looks like there's a carbon fiber look material here with real stitching and cross contrast stitching there on the dash, which is nice. The steering wheel, as you can see, it's fine. The steering wheel itself is starting to look a little bit dated. You can see there's the running horse logo here, traditional hard buttons. I like the leather with the cross stitch. It feels nice here. This steering wheel is essentially the same wheel that you get in the Performance. This wheel is acceptable in this premium trim, but unacceptable to me in the Performance version, the GT Performance version. The wheel itself has a manual tilt and telescoping adjustment with a good amount of range. You can see this is for your Blue Cruise, which Ford has made upgrades to the Blue Cruise over the years where it does have full hands-free. It basically functions like GM's Super Cruise, although it's not quite as good, at least in my experience when I was testing the two systems out. The horn, it actually is pretty loud. It screams, get the heck out of my way if you need to honk at somebody. And then you can see, looking at the screen over here, this hasn't really changed much, although software has been upgraded. It's a little bit quicker and snappier. You can see there's all your usual apps. You can go to your entertainment here where you can actually play games and video games. And you can watch YouTube on the actual screen here, which is kind of a new touch, which you can also, it looks like hook it up to like a gaming console, but you can see there's with YouTube built in. It also has LTE built in, so you can kind of log in and see, watch your favorite movies and stuff. So that's really cool. That's really great. If you're going to be charging the vehicle, it also has your kind of built-in trip computer there, which is cool. CarPlay is also pretty easy to get to. There's also a sketch pad here where you can draw things in here. Like that's pretty much the same as before. So this overall system, as you can see, has definitely been improved, but it's not quite the newest system. Like I said, now over here, you can see there's your heated seat control. There's an automatic function here, or you can also turn the seat on via just tapping there. There's also one level heated steering wheel, but again, cooled seats would have been a nice addition. If I put the vehicle into reverse, there's your full backup camera with 360 camera and a top down view. It has trajectory distance markers, has rear cross-traffic braking, and the quality and resolution is fine, but it's not as good as some of the newer systems that you've seen from other Ford and Lincoln products. You can see down here, you have one wireless phone charging pad, although I wish they kind of made it two. There's an additional storage level down here, cup holders, and some piano black plastic trim. This rotary dial controls your one speed reduction gear transmission. This vehicle also has an automatic parallel parking feature. Your hazard controls here, electronic parking brake, padded center console, as you can see, which is nice. Open this up, you can see all my camera gear fits in there nicely, and there's also a little lid that'll close, although I can't close it when I have all that crap in there, but as you can see, it's a pretty deep and usable center console storage area. The seats themselves, like I said earlier, fake leather, but they feel as good as real leather, and they're also really soft and supple. The only miss is the fact that there's no cooled seats. Open up the glove box, you can see it's a bin style. It's damped, but not lined with felt, but overall visibility and build quality is surprisingly excellent, so that's something that Ford should be very proud of. You have an auto dimming rear view mirror, but no digital camera mirror. You can see there's a woven material here for the headliner, but no glass roof on my test car. It's an extra $1,500. There is no traditional sunroof that'll open up to vent air. It just opens up to let light in. So overall, this interior hasn't really changed much, but I think really the only thing Ford needs to add is their digital experience software, which they might be doing in the next coming years, but it's definitely still one of the nicest and most tech heavy cabins you're going to find in this EV segment. But let's go ahead and hop into the backseat area. You guys can see what that space is like. You can see getting back here, just like the front, you just push that button there and then it prevents you from slamming the door on your finger and then just kind of reach your hand in there and that opens up the backseat area or the back door. Now you can see material quality is the same as the front, so you have that high quality soft touch injection molded plastic, leather here, metal accents here, padded here, Bang & Olufsen stereo, and down here you can see it's all hard touch plastic. The seats you can see are still covered in the same high quality ActiveX material. These seats do give you the ability obviously to fold down, so if I push that button you can see the seats do fold down to reveal almost a completely flat load area, which is definitely nice. These seats sadly don't recline or move forward and back. You don't really need to do that, but the recline function would have been nice. As I get back here you can see Ford still says you have around 38 inches of legroom back here, which 38 inches is actually a pretty decent amount. This is where I'd have the seat to drive. Completely flat floor here, which is great for the middle passenger. You have rear seat air vents, which is nice. You have two USB-C charging ports, an A and a C, I'm sorry, and then you have two more there at the front. You have two storage cubbies here in each of the front seat backs. And then these seats back here, they are not heated sadly, even though there's holes for perforation where it could be ventilated. There's an armrest here that folds down and gives you two cup holders. And then in terms of headroom space, there's kind of like a little carve out here. So for somebody my height at 5'7", I actually have pretty good amounts of headroom. So overall this interior is still very usable, although I believe something like the Tesla Model Y and the Volkswagen ID.4 offers pretty much the same amount of space, if not a little more space. But this is still very surprising. So for those of you who are thinking just because it's a Mustang, it'll have a terrible back seat, you're going to be pleasantly surprised back here. So here we are back behind the wheel of the Ford Mustang Mach-E. This vehicle, as you guys know, I actually owned one for about a year when the 2021 Mach-E GT Performance first came out. Now we already had a chance to do a review on the updated performance and the rally when we were at the media drive about three months ago. However, this time Ford has loaned us a more modest version. This is the premium all-wheel drive. So we have the optional front electric motor with more horsepower, but we still have the standard range battery pack, which measures around 200, I'm sorry, 72 kilowatt hours, good for about 230 miles of range. Now we are starting out this drive with about a 98% state of charge. The vehicle was showing about 235 miles of range on a full charge. And we'll talk about what we actually got in our testing later on. But with this new battery pack and the upgraded motors, now we are making 325 horsepower for this standard range premium all-wheel drive and 500 foot pounds of torque, which is a big healthy increase of torque from like 428 in the pre-refresh version. And that was for the extended range battery pack for claims. You should get to 60 in about 4.6 seconds with this model. So let's go ahead and see what we can get in our actual testing. It's in sport mode. Basically we'll just floor it. Oh man, this thing feels fast. What? Wow. 4.5 seconds there. 4.5 seconds. Now that time should basically allow this car to keep up with a Tesla model Y dual motor long range, the non-performance version. Tesla claims 4.8 seconds with that vehicle. And I feel like in real world testing, that model will actually do 4.5 as well. That is a very impressive time. And it really shows you that Ford was listening to the criticism because remember the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the non N and the Kia EV6, you know, dual motor versions, those will typically do it in 4.5, 4.4 seconds. So the old Mach-E with the extended range battery pack and all-wheel drive did it in around 4.8 seconds. So this again has less power, about 40 less horsepower than the extended range battery pack, which I'm curious. I wonder that one could probably get closer to the four second mark. That thing feels, that should feel almost as quick as a GT from the pre-refreshed version, but let's try another run here. This time we're going to break torque and see if it makes a difference. Oh man, this thing feels fast off the line now. It feels like it's giving you maximum power now, 4.8 seconds there. That's a bit more going slightly uphill. I'll try it one more time up ahead on level surface and see if we can beat 4.5, but that is just insane. Ford was seriously listening to all of the feedback for the Mach-E. Remember they used to seriously limit the torque right off the line because they were trying to protect the battery pack or the electric motors, whatever. The GT version used to have that five second, you know, prison bars where if you gave it for more power, full power for more than five seconds, it would actually cut power. It would start to restrict power, but this model, oh, it just feels instantaneous every time you put your foot down. And as you guys can hear, it also has that propulsion sound, which is also kind of nice. But if you want, you can turn it off. This vehicle still has Ford's one pedal drive feature, which actually will bring the vehicle down to, I believe, a full stop. Let's just see if it will really quick here. I am going slightly uphill here, but as you can see, it does, it brings it to a full stop, which is nice. Put my foot down. You know, even though all electric vehicles are fast, they all pretty much feel this way. I have to admit, I kind of, I kind of enjoy this kind of vehicle. For a daily driver, an EV just makes total sense because you're not having to deal with any of the transmissions trying to shift, any turbos trying to spool up, any engine trying to rev up. There's less maintenance. There's less, you know, need for having to deal with mechanicals wearing out from stop and go traffic. EVs generally are the best in terms of stop and go traffic, if that's what you guys plan to drive in mostly. The handling dynamics of this car haven't really changed. This is still a 4,700 pound SUV. It's not really going to feel like a Mustang coupe at all. The name of this vehicle, the Mustang name is all about the design. And I guess some of the performance, but in terms of the handling, if you guys are coming from a Mustang, no, this is not going to feel like a Mustang SUV. It's just going to feel like a completely different vehicle. Now this is all wheel drive, but you can actually get the rear to step out slightly because the electric motor is more powerful at the rear. And it's again, a brand new electric motor. It's a Ford in-house designed motor. And it really shows you that Ford has taken what they've learned from the Lightning and applied it to the Mach-E. Because remember this was their first effort. It was a decent first effort, but we were waiting for Ford to make some serious hardware changes. And this is kind of where it's at, even though this is just the more, you know, mid-level premium trim without the bigger battery pack, it is seriously fast. It has way more performance than any normal person's ever going to need. Oh man. Wow. 4.6 there. So we'll take the 4.5 as our best time. Brake actually made it slightly worse, but still I am shocked. I was not expecting the more mainstream version, the premium trim to have this kind of performance. It is shockingly quick. Also keep in mind that the tires on this vehicle, they're relatively skinny 225s. It's all about the efficiency with these tires. And that's why it will spin the back end and let the tail step out whenever I just put my foot down and Ford actually lets you do it even with the nannies on. And I was just in the standard like engage mode there. So I'm, I'm really shocked. I am genuinely surprised at how much better the new Mach-E drives, you know, just from those small hardware changes. I mean, even though this car looks pretty much the same on the outside, you know, the one pedal drive there is nice. The steering feels pretty direct, although it's just not really transmitting much in terms of feedback. The chassis of this thing feels good. It's a dedicated, well, technically Ford will tell you it's a dedicated EV architecture. Some would say it's a heavily modified Ford edge platform to basically accommodate the batteries. I'm not entirely sure who's telling the truth or whatnot. I'll take Ford's word for it. When they say it's a dedicated EV architecture, the seats in this model, they're not as aggressively bolstered, obviously as the GT, but they are covered in this active X material. This is the black, the black interior with the contrast stitching. The seats are comfortable, supportive. They are great for longer drives. The one thing Ford didn't add, however, are ventilated seats. I would have liked to see ventilated seats added to this vehicle. I do have heated seats and a heated steering wheel, which is nice. Visibility out of the front, the side, the rear is also good. There's no digital camera or rear view mirror. Ford still doesn't offer that on the Mach-E, but I mean, overall, the way it drives, it's smooth, it's comfortable, it's fast, and it's also quiet. This thing is so incredibly quiet. There's very little road or wind noise. There is also not a single squeak and rattle in this vehicle. So really impressed with the build quality. Remember these vehicles are all built in Mexico, but Ford was shockingly good when they came out with this car three years ago, the build quality really showed it. Now, in terms of the range, let's talk about the real world range. This vehicle is rated at 230 miles on a full charge. In my weeks worth of testing and basically ideal, you know, 75 to 80 degree temperatures, I actually was able to get around 235 miles of real world range, which is very impressive. That actually matches what the car's computer was saying. Now that is mostly city driving. In the city, EVs tend to do better, better in terms of efficiency. On the highway, I did around 220 miles of range. So it dropped a little bit, but that's still pretty darn good. Remember the range has gone up from like 206 in the pre-refresh model and Mach-E's can do up to 320 miles of range. If you go for the premium rear wheel drive with the extended range battery pack, remember I have the smaller battery pack with all wheel drive, which does drop the range by 20 miles compared to the rear drive version with the standard range battery pack. You'll do 300 miles of range with the extended range battery pack and all wheel drive. So again, competitive range figures, it's pretty much right on par with the Tesla Model Y. That is obviously the segment benchmark. It's a little bit more versus rivals like the Hyundai Ioniq 5, the Kia EV6, the Volkswagen ID.4, obviously way ahead of the Subaru Solterra and the Toyota BZ4X. And also it has pretty much range that's on par with the Honda Prologue and the Chevrolet Blazer EV. So there's a lot of competitors out there now. Nowadays, the Mach-E was one of the first, but even though this car, you know, hasn't really changed much looks wise on the outside, I think that Ford has done a really good job at keeping this thing fresh and the, you know, changes they've made to the software and to the hardware have greatly improved this car tremendously. So even though the mainstream media may be reporting that EV sales have been down and demand has seriously been falling off of a cliff, Ford actually had their best sales year ever for the Mustang Mach-E in 2023. Here in North America, they managed to sell a little over 40,000 units last year, which is actually a pretty good amount that makes the Mustang Mach-E the second bestseller in this space. Technically again, the Tesla Model Y is the bestseller and Tesla does about three to 400,000 every year. Again, their, you know, slice of the pie is starting to come down because there are so many other competitors out there. So after spending a full week with the thoroughly revised 2024 Mustang Mach-E, I have to say there's so much new competitors out there. I am genuinely shocked at how good the Mustang Mach-E still is. As you guys saw, even though this model has the standard range battery pack with all-wheel drive, the new electric motors, zero to 60 happens in 4.5 seconds, which should be able to keep pace with a dual motor Model Y along with a dual motor Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6. It's going to smoke competitors like the Chevrolet Blazer EV, the non-SS version, obviously I haven't had a chance to drive that, or the Honda Prologue. So there's a lot of performance here to be had for this Mustang Mach-E and it helps the vehicle live up to the Mustang name. The tech in this car, it still uses Sync 4A, although I do think it's time for them to add their 4Digital Experience software that I first tested in the Explorer, of course, and the new Lincoln Nautilus. That new system is so much more improved. This system here is fine with its wireless Apple CarPlay and Android Auto and over-the-air updates. It still, at times, was a little bit laggy. The interior, thankfully, is very comfortable with really cushy seats that are supportive, a good amount of space, really high build quality, and a decent-sized backseat and trunk. So again, there is plenty to like about the Mach-E and really where it may just give you pauses if you, you know, don't really like the name of this vehicle. It also tends to have a little bit of a firmer ride quality versus some of the other rivals which have a little bit more softly-tuned suspension. It has to, again, go with that Mustang name that it's attached to. But overall, this is still, surprisingly, an attractive EV, and Ford has also kept the price in check because if you want to get your hands on a Mach-E in the base Select trim with rear-wheel drive and the standard battery pack, it's going to start at under $40,000 at $39,995, and that's before the $7,500 federal tax credit because, as you guys know, this car is built in North America, in Mexico technically, and Ford has done some things with their sourcing of the minerals that allow this vehicle to qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit. Now, if you guys want to step it up to the premium trim like this one, the premium will cost you an extra $4,000. It includes a bunch of nice upgrades that some of you may definitely want. If you want all-wheel drive, that's $5,000 extra. If you want the bigger battery pack, which basically adds another 70 miles of range, that's going to cost you another $4,000 extra as well. My particular test car here, basically, with the all-wheel drive option, the optional wheels, the Blue Cruise for three years, which I actually wouldn't pay the $2,000 extra for the Blue Cruise. I would just buy it and pay the subscription whenever I need it because you can kind of turn it on and off based on when you're going to need it. All-in with destination and the upcharge for this color, my particular test car here comes to around $54,700, so just under $55,000. Definitely sounds like a lot of money, although Ford, again, has kept the price relatively in check. That's before the $7,500 federal tax credit. If you guys go all the way up to the GT Performance Edition or the Rally, that can get up to around $65,000 to almost $70,000, which I think is too much. But thankfully, Ford has kept this vehicle really attracted because of the lease specials. Currently, as of September 2024, as of this filming, I'm seeing that Ford is offering a lease deal on this trim here for as low as $365,000 a month. That's for a two-year lease with $5,000 down. That's 10,500 miles a year. That lease is very strong because if you compare it to a Tesla Model Y dual motor and you want to do the same terms with $5,000 down, two-year lease, 10,000 a year, the Tesla is about $530 a month. So it's almost $200 more for the Tesla if you're going to lease it. So Ford, again, is throwing a lot of cash on the hood. And if you don't want to lease, the company is also offering 0% financing for up to 72 months plus a $1,500 Conquest cash. So again, there's so many incentives, so many offers available on the Mach-E, and it's one of the reasons why these are continuing to be relatively popular. So I'll be curious to see how this vehicle continues to do. But I really like the fact that Ford has made a lot of key upgrades to this vehicle. They've kept the price in check. And again, there's a lot of attractive offers out there depending on your budget and your lifestyle. And there's also a lot of models out there to choose from. But this one, again, is supposed to appeal to basically the everyday person, thanks to its attractive blend of performance, power, and of course, range. Well, with all that said, I hope you guys have enjoyed my full overview on the 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E in this premium trim. If you're also looking to see the latest cars I'm testing, be sure to follow me on Instagram at Redline Underscore Reviews. Like us on Facebook. And as always, guys, please keep subscribing to the Redline Reviews YouTube channel for all the latest reviews. Thank you so much for watching. I'll catch you all in the next video.