• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    17 minutes ago

    I love the idea of the Mach-E. It’s a very sleek and sporty looking crossover SUV and I’d love to have one. I just wish they’d have named it something other than a Mustang.

    In my opinion, it’s like Ford took a giant shit on what the Mustang used to represent. Of course some of the other models they released under the mustang brand also did the same thing so…

    Case in point: 1974–1978 Mustang II. God that thing was an antithesis to something like the ‘69 Mach 1

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    1 hour ago

    A family SUV with a 7500 credit outsold a 2+2 rwd sports coupe?

    I’m SHOCKED! FLABBERGASTED! BAMBOOZLED!

    Holy shit what rage bait 🤣

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      19 minutes ago

      It’s bizarre to me that the thing is called a Mustang. Just name it something else and put the same ev transaxle in the regular Mustang.

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        9 minutes ago

        They wanted awareness.

        They got awareness.

        Nobody is skipping the mustang because it shares a nameplate.

        Mission 100% successful.

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      22 minutes ago

      The news to me was that the credit was still available. Turns out the selling spree was because the $7500 credit was expiring September 30th. So the credit is now gone, another master stroke from the stroke master

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    5 hours ago

    Because it’s an electric SUV and not a pony car. It’s an entirely different vehicle, apart from the name slapped on it.

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      4 hours ago

      I don’t know why they compare them, it’s like comparing the Porsche 911 to cayenne, I bet they sell more of the latter

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        It’s almost like the market for SUVs is much broader than for two seater sports cars (because ain’t nobody riding comfortably in the back of a pony Mustang).