If you follow this blog closely, you may already have noticed that I hate SUV's and crossovers. I hate it that the electric Volkswagen ID-3, a hatchback with exterior dimensions very similar to the Golf, which is getting rave reviews in Europe, is not being imported to the US. Instead, we have to wait for the ID-4 crossover, because everybody knows that Murrkins love SUV's and crossovers.
Do we really love them? Or has Detroit just been exceptionally successful in shoving millions of station wagons down our throats and convincing us that they're these new things called crossovers?
If you follow EV headlines, you already know that this vehicle,
which Ford calls the Mustang Mach-E, will be for sale very soon. I believe the reviewers who say it's an extremely impressive SUV-crossover. But it makes no sense to me to call a crossover a Mustang. Chevrolet could design and build a pickup which was 10 times better than any other pickup anyone had ever seen. Now, that would be one impressive pickup. And it would be really stupid for Chevrolet to call it a Corvette.
To
me, whatever this is, it's not a Mustang. If it was a true electric
Mustang, it'd be a coupe or a convertible with a back seat too small for
people, and an overall uncompromising focus on performance which would make the car reviewers forget all about those V-8 Mustangs they
love so much. The reviewers are saying that they hope the V-8 Mustangs will continue to be built, while Mach-E can be a Mustang for more mature drivers. But "Mustang for the more mature driver" is a
contradiction in terms. If an older driver is driving a Mustang, he
should be having a mid-life crisis, look ridiculous and be having a
wonderful time, not carpooling with 6 other people or hauling a refrigerator.
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