The Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 is a seven-motor electric monster machine

Jeff Glucker

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Vaughn Gittin Jr is a man who knows how to have fun in life. It makes sense then that Ford would reach out to Gittin when it needed a driver to have fun with its latest all-electric prototype; the Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400. As far as prototypes go, this one is screamingly wicked.

What is it?

Let’s get into the meat of exactly what is going on here because there’s a lot to unpack. The Mustang Mach-E 1400 is an all-electric prototype demonstration car based on the upcoming Mach-E electric road car. Ford has seen fit to bolt seven electric motors paired with a 56.8-kWh battery. This setup allows the Mach-E 1400 to run as a rear-wheel-drive car, front-wheel-drive, or all-wheel-drive, and it can roast the tires at all times.

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

On the inside, Ford has fitted a series roll cage, four seats, a central graphic display, and a big-ass handbrake handle. On the outside, Ford worked with Gittin’s RTR tuning shop on honing the aero and likely took inspiration from them for the suspension setup as well. Those big wings and dive planes? At 160 mph, the Mach-E 1400 creates more than 2,300 pounds of downforce! And the suspension isn’t just locked into DRIFT EVERYTHING mode. The front-end is adjustable for different configurations. Control arm and steering adjustability and swaps allow the Mach-E 1400 to be set up for drifting, drag racing, and road course action.

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

So what’s the plan?

Ford says the Mustang Mach-E is for demonstrations of extreme EV capability and a test-bed platform. The automaker will bring it to different events for people to check it out. As much as they can, of course, as COVID puts a damper on letting people go for crazy smoke-filled ridealongs at the moment.

What do I hope Ford does with it? Take it to Pikes Peak. It won’t be as fast as the Volkswagen ID.R, but it would be pretty bad-ass to see more and more insane EV competitors rip up that hill alongside the gas-burning hero machines also competing.

Though perhaps it wouldn’t be that much slower than the ID.R. It has more than double the horsepower at 1,400. It can create tremendous downforce. And the ability to vector torque with the help of SEVEN MOTORS should prove useful on the winding climb to 14,115 feet. It’s biggest hurdle would be the weight factor.

For a far more deep dive on the Mustang Mach-E 1400, head over to Road & Track because Bozi Tatarevic has dissected this thing in great detail.

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

All-Electric Mustang Mach-E 1400 Prototype

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Jeff Glucker is the co-founder and Executive Editor of Hooniverse.com. He’s often seen getting passed as he hustles a 1991 Mitsubishi Montero up the 405 Freeway. IG: @HooniverseJeff

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16 responses to “The Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 is a seven-motor electric monster machine”

  1. Zentropy Avatar
    Zentropy

    It’s odd how I can be legitimately impressed and yet almost completely disinterested at the same time. This doesn’t even register a blip on my car-interest radar.

    Ford builds the classically-styled, Wrangler-cheap-shotting, Swiss-Army-knife Bronco (itself nothing particularly new or revolutionary) and I’m itching to throw money at them. Then they build this Not-Mustang, which is a technological tour de force, but it’s wrapped in such a bland and tasteless SUV wrapper that I’m yawning. I get it– crossovers sell. But can someone please do something more interesting with the raised two-box design???

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    1. Wayne Moyer Avatar
      Wayne Moyer

      I really want to like it. It’s just that you get to that picture of the super uber muscle E doing its thing next to the blue one and that’s when it reminds you that this isn’t even a Mustang II to a Mustang. This is the Jeep Unlimited poser next to a Wrangler. A pale imitation of the real thing. Sure there will be eight hundred special editions that will have extra battery back, some extra power, extra paint and stripes but in the end we know what’s going to happen. It’s just going to be another Nike sneaker version of a four door car that really doesn’t fall into any class. It will be driven by soccer Mom’s trying to relive their High School years. It will be driven by divorced Dad’s who are trying to relive those same years. It will never see the track even by accidentally driving past it.
      Ford could have given us an electric sports car. Instead they gave us a Ford Mustang Crown Victoria. Now it just needs wood paneling.

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    2. Wayne Moyer Avatar
      Wayne Moyer

      I really want to like it. It’s just that you get to that picture of the super uber muscle E doing its thing next to the blue one and that’s when it reminds you that this isn’t even a Mustang II to a Mustang. This is the Jeep Unlimited poser next to a Wrangler. A pale imitation of the real thing. Sure there will be eight hundred special editions that will have extra battery back, some extra power, extra paint and stripes but in the end we know what’s going to happen. It’s just going to be another Nike sneaker version of a four door car that really doesn’t fall into any class. It will be driven by soccer Mom’s trying to relive their High School years. It will be driven by divorced Dad’s who are trying to relive those same years. It will never see the track even by accidentally driving past it.
      Ford could have given us an electric sports car. Instead they gave us a Ford Mustang Crown Victoria. Now it just needs wood paneling.

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      1. Maymar Avatar
        Maymar

        To Ford’s credit, they’re not shying away from selling this thing on tire-roasting shenanigans, and most variants will be among the quickest “Mustangs” (or close enough) ever built. Most Mustangs are pale imitations of Mustangs already.

        That said, as much as going crossover makes sense on some level, it just gives so much extra visual heft.

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        1. Wayne Moyer Avatar
          Wayne Moyer

          Yeah it’s all about that visual heft. I’m not sure what’s going on there. It went from a pony to a very large workhorse.

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          1. Zentropy Avatar
            Zentropy

            I propose they modify the Mustang badge a bit for the Mach E…
            https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50139500507_0919d2165e.jpg

          2. Wayne Moyer Avatar
            Wayne Moyer

            Well look it’s not a Nissan Murano convertible. It’s more Nike crosstrainer. You know but points for the III for the replacement for my beloved Mustang II.

          3. Wayne Moyer Avatar
            Wayne Moyer

            Well look it’s not a Nissan Murano convertible. It’s more Nike crosstrainer. You know but points for the III for the replacement for my beloved Mustang II.

          4. Zentropy Avatar
            Zentropy

            While we’re at it, let’s just pillage Mustang’s heritage a bit deeper and make use of the now-dead Fusion platform. I mean, as long as we’re sticking ‘Stang badges where they don’t really apply…

            https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50141362143_fc01dddfbf_b.jpg

          5. Wayne Moyer Avatar
            Wayne Moyer

            The Mustang Grande is awesome. More seventies love.

          6. dr zero Avatar
            dr zero

            An amphibious version would be ambitious but awesome!

        2. Zentropy Avatar
          Zentropy

          I disagree. My favorite Mustang is the ’67 GT 390, which would easily lose a drag race to the base model 2020 Mustang with a four cylinder and automatic. Hell, the little Ecoboost would beat most generations of Shelbys. Mustangs are better than they’ve ever been– not a pale imitation of anything.

          There’s nothing wrong with the Mach E’s performance, it just has the wrong name and a design that is shamelessly derivative of the last generation Escape. If it’s a Mustang, it should be a coupe. Being a crossover, then following Ford’s recent naming conventions, it should be named something starting with an “E” or “F”. Maybe Entropy (haha) or Farad. Or if they’re feeling nostalgic, Edsel or Fairlane. Whatever– it’s no more a Mustang than it is a Fairmont wagon.

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          1. Maymar Avatar
            Maymar

            Oh no, the new Ecoboost Mustang is by all rights a great car. I’m just thinking (as far as pale imitation goes) in terms of wheezing Thriftmaster and Essex sixes or Pinto fours, the cars that kept the Mustang alive until they could finally put a base engine worth a damn in the thing (open to interpretation, but probably the 3.7?).

            I also just can’t see the Escape connection. As mentioned, I think it’s a little too bloated to be good looking, but I’m mostly just seeing overinflated Mustang. I don’t love it, but it’s quick and does nothing to abate any interest I have in the normal Mustang .

          2. Zentropy Avatar
            Zentropy

            Ok, I understand your comment now. My college roommate’s girlfriend drove a 4-cylinder Fox body convertible, and it was an absolute snooze-mobile, so I have to agree with that point. However, I’ll defend the inline six used in the first-generation Mustang. I thought it suited the mission of that vehicle perfectly.

            More to my point, though, is that no Mustang since the Mustang II has looked so much NOT like a Mustang. Given a vehicle of this significance, it doesn’t need the allure of a halo badge. It’s like Chevrolet bringing out a new 3-row electric SUV and calling it the “Chevelle”. I mean, why? Without the pony in the grille and the triple vertical taillamp elements, I would have never even considered this remotely close to “Mustang” in character.

    3. Wayne Moyer Avatar
      Wayne Moyer

      I really want to like it. It’s just that you get to that picture of the super uber muscle E doing its thing next to the blue one and that’s when it reminds you that this isn’t even a Mustang II to a Mustang. This is the Jeep Unlimited poser next to a Wrangler. A pale imitation of the real thing. Sure there will be eight hundred special editions that will have extra battery back, some extra power, extra paint and stripes but in the end we know what’s going to happen. It’s just going to be another Nike sneaker version of a four door car that really doesn’t fall into any class. It will be driven by soccer Mom’s trying to relive their High School years. It will be driven by divorced Dad’s who are trying to relive those same years. It will never see the track even by accidentally driving past it.
      Ford could have given us an electric sports car. Instead they gave us a Ford Mustang Crown Victoria. Now it just needs wood paneling.

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      1. Vairship Avatar
        Vairship

        I bought a Chevrolet Corvette Bolt EV instead. I liked it better than the Nissan Skyline GTR Leaf.

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