How fast? Who cares…
Funny how the rise of the EV has lessened our former obsession with top speed. The number is still in our spec panel: I had to consult it before writing this when I realised I had no idea what my Mustang Mach-E GT tops out at. Turns out it’s 124mph, which is exactly the same as a 1.0-litre, 123bhp Focus, despite my car being Ford’s 480bhp, £76k, range topper.
Anyway, good riddance to that pointless Top Trumps obsession. No autobahn trips are planned before the Mustang goes back to Ford, so I won’t be able to test its v-max. And in any case I doubt it would do 124mph for an hour and 124 miles: at that speed the battery is likely to die well before.
It does feel like it has 76 grand’s worth of acceleration, though. It’s not quite as savage as some rivals, and the obsession with demonstrating it to mates has also now worn off, but the way in which it compresses overtaking distances is genuinely useful on the often well-sighted country roads around us, and on its own is a reason not to go back to internal combustion.
In fact I find myself taking longer over overtaking than I could, so as not to discombobulate the overtaken: mainly for reasons of good road manners, but also just a little bit because there’s only one Cyber Orange electric Mustang in town and I might as well be driving around in a sign-written van.
That colour is definitely growing on me, thou
