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Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally Debuts With No GM EV Rival

The Blue Oval revealed its all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in West Sussex, England, highlighting the Mustang EV’s off-roading performance as well as taking it up “the Hill” at the event.

The Mustang Mach-E rivals GM’s upcoming Chevy Blazer EV, but the Rally offers off-road capability the Blazer does not, and in fact outdoes the off-pavement mobility of any current EV from The General’s lineup, GMC Hummer EV aside.

Side view of the Mustang Mach-E Rally.

Ford has offered few details about the Mustang Mach-E Rally so far. Vice-president of the Blue Oval’s electric vehicle programs, Darren Palmer, says the Mach-E Rally’s purpose is “providing our customers the freedom to venture off the asphalt and beyond the beaten path.” The all-electric Mustang Mach-E Rally will be available for U.S. orders in autumn 2023.

The automaker did not yet provide range, price, or performance information for the Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally. It only offers the statement that the EV is “designed for agile performance on loose surfaces like gravel.”

The Mustang Mach-E Rally is appearing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed with Estonian rally champion Ott Tänak at the wheel. The EV will compete on “the Hill,” a white-knuckle 1.16-mile hillclimb that is one of Goodwood’s most popular events. Another Chevy Blazer EV SS competitor, the Hyundai Ioniq 5 N EV, is also debuting at Goodwood.

Rear three quarters view of the Mustang Mach-E Rally.

Ford’s EV sports unique lower front and rear bumper trims as well as exclusive alloy wheels wrapped in BFGoodrich Trail-Terrain T/A 235/55R19 tires.

At the front of the Mustang Mach-E Rally Ford designers gave the EV unique front nose panel with integrated trail lights and red front tow hooks. The interior gets more supportive seats for off-roading, along with seemingly exclusive interior trim colors.

The Chevy Blazer EV is GM’s rival to the Mustang Mach-E, but will not be offered in an off-road focused variant. At this point in time, GM hasn’t announced any off-road Ultium-based BEV3-platform electric crossovers yet for any of its brands.

Interior view of the Mustang Mach-E Rally.

The Chevy Blazer EV SS crossover is said “to live up to the legacy of the iconic Super Sport performance designation” with electric motors that provide all-wheel drive while cranking out as much as 557 horsepower and 648 pound-feet of torque.

The vehicle also features a sport-tuned chassis, Brembo front brakes, and the Wide Open Watts (WOW) mode enabling a 0-60 launch in less than four seconds.

The Chevy Blazer EV SS will get a unique front grille, two-tone exterior color scheme with a black roof and A-pillars, and standard 22-inch wheels. Estimated range per charge is 290 miles, somewhat less than the standard Chevy Blazer EV’s 320 miles.

Ford emblem on the Mustang Mach-E Rally.

GM has priced the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV SS at $65,995 base starting MSRP, inclusive of the destination freight charge. Originally scheduled to debut in fall 2023 at roughly the same time Ford will start taking orders for the Mustang Mach-E Rally, launch of the Blazer EV SS was delayed until spring 2024. Production of the high-performance Chevy crossover will take place at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico.

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  1. What if they gave a party and no one came?

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  2. Where is the Chevy Camaro EV? There was a. E-COPO running at strips, so when will GM produce it?

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    1. Cause nobody wants it, heck have you seen the sales of the Mach-E recently? Its not selling hot either. None of these are. Be probably prudent to delay the blazer EV as well at this rate.

      The trailblazer active however which actually is more off road worthy than this, is selling.

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  3. “designed for agile performance on loose surfaces like gravel” Wow that is some serious off road capability!!!

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  4. Who cares about an UGLY so called Mustang. It doesn’t even look like a Mustang.

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  5. Who Cares????????????????????????

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  6. Correct. The Mustang EV is…..ugly, just looks like something thrown together in 24 hours. Also on the interior, that hideous vertical screen!! Looks like it belongs in something as big as a tractor trailer semi.

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  7. Of Course It Is Better Exterior Designed Than Any GM Of Today, Seems The Outer Mirror Is Correct Placed.
    The Problem Of It Is EV…

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    1. This does not look better than the recently revealed Equinox, the Sierra EV or the Lyriq.

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  8. I wish people would stop calling it a Mustang.

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    1. you got that right 100%.

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  9. And there never will be a GM rival because it’s another idiotic trim level absurdity by Ford, probably the work of Billy and/or Jim to appease their fantasies only.

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  10. Are roads in USA so bad everything has to be offroad? Next thing you know they will compare the “flex” for rock climbing ability. Does the average person take a new vehicle offroad and rock climbing. I think not.

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  11. Personally speaking, it’s not about looks, or capability but about putting things out there for the public to look at and sometimes even purchase if it fits their needs. Truthfully Ford keeps “playing the field” with the Mustang Mach E (hate that name and I agree, they shouldn’t have named it a “Mustang”, a poor and thoughtless choice for sure!), Ford Lightening,
    Ford Maverick, Ford Bronco, these are but three examples of “playing the field” and they’ve gotten some pretty decent publicity, and in the Bronco’s particular case, have hit a Home Run as these are getting more popular by the day and also damn expensive too! I’ve seen a ton of them around here in SoCal, not to mention the Lightening and of course that (sic) Mustang Mach E and even the cute little popular Maverick small truck has been hitting it’s stride too!
    And so where are GM’s competitors to these particular vehicles? Uh, no where to be found…not one competitor from GM is at the dealers, and you’ll not see any sort of competition against these popular vehicles coming from Chevrolet or GM.
    My point is simply this…”you’ve got to either lead or get out of the way” in todays automotive marketplace and GM has proven that it would rather run a pathetic second or third (or worse) in this very competitive automotive field and for the life of me, I can’t figure out why they’d prefer to do business this way when they’ve got some of the very best stylist, and engineers in the business. Not to beat a dead horse (sorry Ford) but GM can’t even produce an on time delivery EV SUV.
    Now even that’s been put back until sometime next year! This to me speaks volumes about really poor upper management that can’t read the “playing field”, GM seems to accept either not playing in that field (think Bronco or Maverick) at all or dragging their feet when it comes to a Lightening F150 light duty EV Truck competitor, and even then GM has once again dropped the ball, has raised the price of it’s (coming soon to a Chevy dealer near you) EV Silverado “Work Truck” before it has even been sold to the public! Okay, ’nuff said…when I see my friends, family and neighbors going to the Ford dealer to purchase any one of these new vehicles, it shows me that GM had better get it’s act in gear “ASAP” or continue to run a very distant second place in this very competitive playing field and that cannot be a good sign for GM’s future.

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    1. Problem with playing the filed is ford is one of the few automakers who are actually in the red this year.

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  12. So it’s a CUV, a segment primarily for old women, it’s also an EV, and they made it a rally car. Who is this supposed to be for?

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    1. Anyone who drives in snow. It would unquestionably be one of the best winter vehicles out there if it has actual rally upgrades.

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  13. Honestly, who cares about what Ford is doing with that P.O.S. Seriously? Ford is absolutely Junk!

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  14. What a piece of crap to destroy the original Mustang brand!

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  15. Thank God GM doesn’t have a rival to that electric junk. They will probably come up with something sooner or later. This electric vehicle madness needs to stop.

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    1. A Vega-eV (pronounced Vay-ga-vee) would be a perfect competitor. Just remember to attached a non-gasketed cover to the gearbox so it can maintain the heritage oil-spill character. Then, between the 2 competitors, we’ll see which one can win worst selling vehicle of the 2020-30 decade. 😋

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  16. Just another ugly example of bastardizing the mustang that no one will buy. EVs are doomed to the dust bin of history ! In 10 years all will see the fallacy of the green bs !

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  17. Meh. Stickers still do not add excitement, or soul, or desirability. At least the word “Mustang” isn’t on the billboard decals. Maybe this means they’re caving to pressure to distance this thing from the Mustang legacy.

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  18. The Mach E was exposed for what it is. It was a rush job just to get an EV out.

    This is not my opinion but what the engineers for the car that stated it was not designed well and that it will be replaced with a similar platform like GM is using. This car has like 70 pounds of too much wire harness and more issues.

    All this EV stuff is in early start up phase and the real focus is on range and price, They now have range but price has slowed in decline.

    These deals are just Ford marketing for attention. They are sitting on a butt load of these and need to drum up exciment for just another EV CUV that is old before it came out.

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  19. cant believe we are even talking about it, if you are into evs understand you are exactly what the power players of this world want, you are the folks who fall in line when asked to, and you will do what you are told to do, useless sheep.

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  20. gm doesn’t need to lose sleep over the lack of a rival, gm for the time being can focus on the EV lineup that is currently available along with the vehicles that are scheduled to arrive within the market soon; the Hummer SUV, Silverado EV, Blazer EV, Sierra EV, Cadillac Lyriq, Optiq, Celestiq and Escalade IQ; overall sales numbers, real world and long term performance, customer satisfaction have yet to be determined by any of these upcoming vehicles. Ditch the rival challenge and focus on the new offers to customers within the portfolio, that in itself can be a challenge that gm is up against right now.

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  21. This should have been called Maverick or Granada, NOT Mustang.

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  22. This should have been called Maverick or Torino

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