This is not a car without a handling trick or two up its sleeve, but it can’t quite escape the shadows cast by its size and heft. The Ford Mustang Mach-E GT never feels like a naturally poised, seriously adhesive or truly engaging driver’s car, and that’s hard to excuse in something priced and positioned as it is and that inevitably stands to be compared with cars that don’t have matching failings.
A modern fast Ford should have more alluring tactility and finely honed precision in its controls than this, as well as better close body control and better steady-state cornering balance. The GT only really gets part of the way towards carving out a truly sporting identity in these respects, and the blandness and lack of definition in its steering and brake pedal add an unwelcome mundanity to your interactions with the car.
It does steer quite directly, though, and remains fairly composed at speed. And, like so many sporty Fords, it can really rotate towards an apex. Ford’s torque vectoring software acts in surprisingly exaggerated fashion in the car’s Untamed driving mode, braking the inside rear wheel in order to send a hit of torque to the outside one if you accelerate towards the apex.
That process in itself makes the car’s cornering attitude particularly throttle adjustable in the early phases of a corner, and all the more so if you choose to disengage the GT’s electronic stability control, in a way that is at least reminiscent of the last Ford Focus RS.
