1400 HP Mustang Prototype

[Jsreo]

I would be in for an electric Camaro if it could have this level of performance.

Sure i would miss the sounds of the big V8 but I think I would get over that pretty quickly

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/21/ford...orsepower.html

[RyanR623]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeROC

I don't care if it runs 4 sec 1/4 miles, it's ugly and shouldn't have the Mustang nameplate on it. Looks like a CRV and a Civic had a lovechild.

It is pretty fugly. The one above isn't street legal and will never be produced either. So it's really a moot thread. At least GM makes super fast cars (COPO) that you can actually buy.

[USAFS197]

Nice. I like it but, I'm also not a Ford hater and I welcome electric cars. So, kudos to Ford for this little experiment.

[caSStro18]

After one lap it probably needs a charge. Talk about a long pit stop! Lol

[ZED SLED]

Originally Posted by caSStro18

After one lap it probably needs a charge. Talk about a long pit stop! Lol

Likely end up being declared a hazardous waste site in the apex of turn 1.

[delthawk5]

They had to post-edit that fake ass electric motor sound. I've been to an Formula E race and those cars don't even sound like that.

[caSStro18]

Those tires and wheels are so small! They look like go-cart wheels!

[Hops]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeROC

This crapfest CUV addiction needs to end.

+1


I'd vastly prefer a mustang touring to a CUV

[arpad_m]

Ford Motor has developed a racing version of its upcoming all-electric Mustang Mach-E crossover with 1,400 horsepower and a top speed that's not street legal.

As if there were any car on the market today whose top speed is "street legal". Journalists.

[cellsafemode]

If you think the camaro is not going to be a cuv in the not too distant future, then you're the same kind of stupid that the people at chevy are for just giving Ford more money.

The public only wants SUV's, CUV's and trucks. When you dont give them what they want, they buy it from your competitor. They dont get convinced that cars are better after deciding that cars are inferior.

It's almost as stupid as cancelling your only competitor to the majority of mustang sales for about a decade and then getting back into that market while it's continuing a contraction that had been going on since the 2000's.

We'll all be driving electric suv's and cuv's until the auto-driving gets good enough to just get us out of the drivers seat altogether. The public doesn't want to drive and the enthusiasts who do dont fit in a world where the roads are crowded and cars are too expensive.

and the wheels... well, larger diameter wheels are less efficient than smaller ones and vastly more expensive to keep rubber on. And if you got 4 to share the torque ... you dont need huge fat ones either, plus you have a low center of gravity that keeps you from trying to roll on turns so you need less width for lateral traction too.

I dont think for a second chevy wouldn't do exactly what ford is doing.. . just later and worse even if they deliver a better product. It fits for them. My only hope is that it retains some aspect of the camaro as a middle finger to buyers ...like only having 2 doors, or the belt line goes even higher so the window view is the same height as the current camaro, or the rear storage area is big but the rear hatch only opens as a small door rather than the whole rear. Throw a bunch of angles on the grill for no reason so nobody gets the idea that it's feminine in any way despite it being a purely domestic-purpose car. Bonus if they give it some fake v8 exhaust noise that sounds better than the real v8's do in the current camaro both externally and internally.

[cellsafemode]

Originally Posted by BuckeyeROC

There are already a million CUV's and SUV's on the market, and yes, will continue to be in the future. Using the Mustang and/or Camaro name on any of them is ridiculous.

they're brand names to everyone but us. Putting them on something that isn't selling and throwing away the chance of putting it on something that will ...is more ridiculous. At least, to anyone who likes money.

[CamaroRSOnt]

Lots of cars with that kind of horsepower, they can run further than a 1/4 mile before recharging. Two and three thousand HP Vette's are not unusual at the drag strip, some of those are street legal.






Electric vehicle owners were surveyed in 2019 by the U.S. Dept of Transportation after purchasing their first EV what did they buy next, 55% went back to IC engine cars. In 2019 EV sales declined around the world over 2018, the market actually shrank.



In a typical year 90+ million IC vehicles sell around the world about 1.5% of that number are EV's. Far too much hype about such a small segment of the market but that's the media for you, fake news.

[EJR8402]

Originally Posted by cellsafemode

they're brand names to everyone but us. Putting them on something that isn't selling and throwing away the chance of putting it on something that will ...is more ridiculous. At least, to anyone who likes money.

So, design something that looks like a Nissan Rogue, throw in a powerful electric motor, make it self-driving, and slap a Camaro emblem on it and then you'd be satisfied?

Sounds like you need to be driving something other than a Camaro.

[cellsafemode]

1.5% of 90 million is 1.35 million sold per year.

If you add up mustang, camaro, and charger sales numbers that's :220,000 (half of that is just charger sales)

So EV sales dwarf pony car sales by over 500%.

So by that logic, the only thing keeping muscle/pony cars relevant at all is that they have been around longer ...but that's very temporary. But obviously, pony cars are more of a niche not worth serious consideration by anyone when you look at the sales numbers.