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AN ELECTRIC MUSTANG SUV? BELIEVE IT.

THE MACH-E DOESN’T DEVELOP POWER IN A WAY ANY MUSTANG HAS—AND THAT’S NOT A BAD THING.

Deep underground at Ford’s Product Development Center, a large studio has been converted into an “immersion room,” its temporary walls papered with endless PowerPoint slides. Normally, vision boards like this are a clear indication that both imagination and inspiration were snuffed out of the project three months in.

But then something caught my eye—a slide titled “Winning Will Not Be Driven by Compliance.”

Below the headline were four cars: a BMW i3, Nissan Leaf, Chevy Bolt EV, and an electric Ford Focus. Although I strongly dislike the poor-driving i3, have forgotten about driving the Leaf as many times as I’ve driven it, and imagine that a small battery

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