Do you consider the Mach-E an SUV?

[User100723]

Whenever I’m driving around and there’s this model of BMW. I have to kind of take a second look cause it almost looks like a Mach e. The Mustang I guess is more of a crossover, and you don’t have to say oh my God or hate on me for saying this but, I wish they would’ve called it a Pinto lol Pinto X??

Whenever I see one of these things on the road, I just have to admire the job Ford did in designing the Mustang Mach E. Though I’ve always assumed it was a at least a crossover of some sort, most of those I colloquially call it a “car”, if not, Mustang, due to the way it looks. And I do the same in general.

A lot of the competitors from Tesla to Toyota to much of the German flank look more like “suv-ified” versions of otherwise highly popular and attractive cars. Some of these aren’t all that bad, actually, and look alright, while others are just plain humorous to outright distasteful (to me, anyways).

Of course there are “sporty” or “sporty-designed” suvs that legitimately look awesome (i.e. Porsche, as others have mentioned), but most would never call them “car” or confuse them for actual sedan/coupe “cars”. Everyone knows what they are: highly-attractive, sporty-looking/performing suvs. That BMW up here? As far as I’m concerned, that’s an SUV. It looks like one due to how upright, lifted and spacious it seems, despite the overall sedan-inspired styling it wears.

On the other hand, the Mustang Mach E seems to be in a rather unique category of its own. Yeah, it’s no sedan, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “suv” so well designed that it legitimately looks like an actual sports car from certain angles - and not a comically bloated one at that. The fact that we even have this thread shows how well the Mustang Mach E’s exterior design blurs the line between a large/lifted sedan and crossover/hatchback/small suv. It has some of us questioning exactly what to call it, even though we know what it is.

Now search Google for images of a “Mustang SUV”, and narrow your search results to only show images from before the official Ford teasers and unveiling of the Mustang Mach E. That’s what you call an “suv”. Unless you’re looking at a lifted Mustang coupe with monster tires, that is.

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[nvabill]

Yes.

But only so people don’t confuse it with a real Mustang. ?

There is no confusion, there is Mustang and there is Mustang Mach E.

 

[Jerrytball]

Whenever I see one of these things on the road, I just have to admire the job Ford did in designing the Mustang Mach E. Though I’ve always assumed it was a at least a crossover of some sort, most of those I colloquially call it a “car”, if not, Mustang, due to the way it looks. And I do the same in general.

A lot of the competitors from Tesla to Toyota to much of the German flank look more like “suv-ified” versions of otherwise highly popular and attractive cars. Some of these aren’t all that bad, actually, and look alright, while others are just plain humorous to outright distasteful (to me, anyways).

Of course there are “sporty” or “sporty-designed” suvs that legitimately look awesome (i.e. Porsche, as others have mentioned), but most would never call them “car” or confuse them for actual sedan/coupe “cars”. Everyone knows what they are: highly-attractive, sporty-looking/performing suvs. That BMW up here? As far as I’m concerned, that’s an SUV. It looks like one due to how upright, lifted and spacious it seems, despite the overall sedan-inspired styling it wears.

On the other hand, the Mustang Mach E seems to be in a rather unique category of its own. Yeah, it’s no sedan, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an “suv” so well designed that it legitimately looks like an actual sports car from certain angles - and not a comically bloated one at that. The fact that we even have this thread shows how well the Mustang Mach E’s exterior design blurs the line between a large/lifted sedan and crossover/hatchback/small suv. It has some of us questioning exactly what to call it, even though we know what it is.

Now search Google for images of a “Mustang SUV”, and narrow your search results to only show images from before the official Ford teasers and unveiling of the Mustang Mach E.

That’s what you call an “suv”. Unless it’s just a lifted Mustang coupe with monster tires, that is.

Yeah, I agree. I mean I love the way my car looks my son. I mean everybody that are like muscle car guys. I don’t know if it’s the carbonized gray color and the different wheels I put on there but they just love the way it looks I mean, they don’t even compare it to an SUV. I mean I have to say if there’s an SUV out there or whatever you wanna call it looks or compares looks with the Mustang . I would see the Lamborghini. They call that that one that’s been on the news lately that was racing on the highway and got wrecked, possibly the Porsche .

 

[MABachE131]

CUV.

 

[devmach-e]

Yes.

But only so people don’t confuse it with a real Mustang. ?

Ford makes the car.
Ford gets to name the car.
Ford named it a Mustang.
Therefore it's a Mustang.

As to what makes a real Mustang, well, that's subject to a lot of debate. And my first entry into that debate would be a Mustang II with the vinyl roof.

 

[Thunderbuck]

Ford makes the car.
Ford gets to name the car.
Ford named it a Mustang.
Therefore it's a Mustang.

As to what makes a real Mustang, well, that's subject to a lot of debate. And my first entry into that debate would be a Mustang II with the vinyl roof.

So, you raise a really good point here, but maybe not the one you think you are.

Sure, when you say “Mustang” you think of a hairy muscle car like a Boss or a GT350, but that wasn’t how the nameplate started. That first Mustang was a stylish but fairly tepid coupe with an I-6. “Mustang” has meant a lot of things over the years, from the big brutes of the early ‘70s to the Euro-ish SVO to, yes, the Mustang II.

Let me muddy the waters a little more: the original Mustang was built on a shortened Falcon platform. In the next several years it eventually moved up to the bigger platform of the T-Bird, but Ford execs knew it was drifting from its original mission, and even before the ‘73 OPEC embargo they were preparing to move the Mustang back to a compact platform. Sure, it was the same platform as the Maverick and Pinto, but few seem to know that this platform wasn’t new at all, it was a heavy revamp of the Falcon.

So, in a way, the Mustang II was totally legit: it was a return to the Mustang’s economical roots.

 

[JustBob]

There is no confusion, there is Mustang and there is Mustang Mach E.

I actually prefer to just call it a Mach-E. I've never been a big Mustang fan.

 

[Jerrytball]

Ford makes the car.
Ford gets to name the car.
Ford named it a Mustang.
Therefore it's a Mustang.

As to what makes a real Mustang, well, that's subject to a lot of debate. And my first entry into that debate would be a Mustang II with the vinyl roof.

Exactly?

 

[HuntingPudel]

My son's Impala would disagree. Much more space inside.

LOL my former ‘69 Cadillac dwarfs any year Impala. ??

 

[emetz582]

CUV.

The definition is clear and consistent per nearly every major manufacture.

 

[nvabill]

Ford makes the car.
Ford gets to name the car.
Ford named it a Mustang.
Therefore it's a Mustang.

As to what makes a real Mustang, well, that's subject to a lot of debate. And my first entry into that debate would be a Mustang II with the vinyl roof.

Actually Ford named it the Mustang Mach E, to drop the Mach E from it's name is not calling it by the name Ford gave it. As I said in my previous post Ford makes a Mustang and Ford makes a Mustang Mach E to avoid confusion.

 

[nvabill]

I actually prefer to just call it a Mach-E. I've never been a big Mustang fan.

I love Mustangs but like you I like the Mach E deal, it is what makes it unique, not the Mustang nameplate.

 

[McSquashy]

SUV is a fairly generic term that encompasses a lot of vehicles. That said, I generally think of SUVs as larger, boxy vehicles and body on frame vehicles.

I don't consider the Mach-E to be either a car or SUV. I'd say it fits nicely as a CUV/Crossover.

 

[Snakebitten]

Purchased mine after dark. I looked around mine real good after the sun came up the next morning.

I couldn't find the word Mustang anywhere on/in it. (did I miss it?)

My dad, at 93 years old and seeing a couple of pictures of it, asked "so son, what made you buy an electric station wagon?"

That's good enough for me.
Station Wagon it is.
Although admittedly it would be more convincing if it had an old-school lowering tailgate rather than a modern rising hatch.

 

[User100723]

SUV is a fairly generic term that encompasses a lot of vehicles. That said, I generally think of SUVs as larger, boxy vehicles and body on frame vehicles.

I don't consider the Mach-E to be either a car or SUV. I'd say it fits nicely as a CUV/Crossover.

Probably should just drop the “S” at this point and leave it at “UV”, since there’s not much “sport” in most of these vehicles anyway - be it in looks or load. Alas, no one would ever call these things for what they truly are: FUVs (Family Utility Vehicles).

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