It is all good and well that the Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 can create Huge clouds of tire smoke as they are thrown around Ford’s testing grounds. That is not too difficult to do. But is there a better way to know if All that high torque witchcraft that happens in that car means nothing at all. That’s the way climbing is.
When it comes to discovering how power delivery, chassis stiffness, downforce and grip interact, climbing is the ultimate test. There is a reason why the Pikes Peak it is sacred ground for racing enthusiasts. If your car can exceed those twelve miles and 156 turns, it is a respectable piece of machinery by anyone’s standards. And do you know what kind of cars tend to work best there? Those who were conceived be as hard as possible wild.
the Audi Quattro S1. the Porsche Cayman GT4 Clubsport. An 850 horsepower Dacia duster with some GT-R parts fastened. These are the type of machines that make minced meat from the prized Pike’s Peak Hill Climb. They are outrageous. They are striking. They push them to the edge of their drivers’ nerves on that mountain road, trying scratch tenths of a second away from tits atmosphere, the tightest curves and the grip of gravity itself. And they can do it because they are incredible machines.
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But these days? It is electric energy who rules the hill Acura taunted everyone with a NSX electric single mountain climb car at Pike’s Peak in 2016 and Volkswagen completely deleted the record in the iD.R prototype two years later. Batteries can be heavy, but the type of acceleration and grip offered by electric motors that drive all four wheels iIt’s simply incomparable. I can only Imagine the Gs pushing and pulling the body of the driver Romain Dumas as he pushes the iD.R up the mountain.
That car is great, but it needs company. My thought is that this new Mach-e from Ford and his friendsnds in RTR. It is the car that will finally join iD.R in the clouds. Have power. It has grip. It’s free from the thin mountain The air that comes out of the fuel mixture is poor. It is perfect for work. Now all Ford needs to do is find a driver. Maybe Ken Block is the man who does it.
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