The new super-fast Mustang needs to be a cut above the best of the rest. Is it?
We all know the Mustang brand has serious pedigree, so Ford's idea of sticking that emotive moniker on a heavy SUV, fuelled by batteries and without the ringing endorsement of a traditional bellowing V8, raised more than a few eyebrows. But what could it do? Ford wasn't alone in being caught napping with the meteoric rise of Tesla and a changing wider world. When you find yourself on the back foot, you need to take risks to stand out. So it did.
When it comes to the traditional measure of performance, though, the Mach-E smashes the EV6. From a standing start it'll hit 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, while the EV6 takes 5.2 seconds. How amazing is it that 5.2 seconds, for what's really a fairly ordinary means of family transport, is made to sound so slow? The truth, of course, is it isn't. The EV6 provides a surfeit of performance for your every whim.
There are other pluses as well. The brakes aren't unduly corrupted by energy recouperation and feel progressive as a result. And speaking of regen, I was rather enamoured with Kia's role for the steering wheel paddles. Lots of cars let you change the regen from the paddles, but I haven't come across one with the flexibility of the EV6's. Tap the left one on the way into a corner and each time it'll increase the regen in a way that mimics, to an extent, changing down gears.
Because of its better composure, the EV6 is also a much calmer motorway car. There's some gentle sway in its tall body that rocks you gently but it doesn't fidget like the Mach-E. Both cars are firm over sharp ridges and potholes, but the EV6 isn't jarring - in part because its chassis doesn't produce the noisy thumps that the Mach-E's does .
In many other ways, their driving positions are similar. Both cars have high floors and low seats, so you're sitting with your legs out straighter than you would be in a standard SUV - one without a huge battery beneath its seats. But they're still very adjustable cars, with standard multiway powered seats and manually adjustable steering wheels, each with a good range of fore and aft movement as well as height. And comfortable seats.
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