Stare Down Potholes With The £76,790 Ford Mustang Mach-E Rally

Mildly controversial name aside, we rather liked the Ford Mustang Mach-E GT when we drove it earlier this year – we found it had a wild streak that’s been sorely lacking from quite a lot of EVs.

That streak’s now set to get wilder still, as the off-road-biased Rally version is now available in the UK. It debuts as a £2,250 option pack for the range-topping 480bhp, dual-motor Mach-E GT, taking the total cost to £76,790 (notwithstanding other options).

Designed to make the Mach-E more amenable to being flung down dirt roads, it brings some chunky all-terrain rubber and specially-tuned MagneRide adaptive suspension, with the car sitting 20mm higher than standard. It also adds an additional RallySport drive mode that tweaks the damping, stability control and throttle response for easier off-road silliness, and throws on some underbody shielding in case you clout a particularly big rock.

You also can’t really miss the rather excellent white rally-style wheels, in-yer-face graphics package, or big rear wing. Things are a bit tamer inside, with some gloss white inserts here and there and some unique embossing on the seats. There’s no stated change to the car’s 3.7-second 0-62mph dash or 124mph top speed.

You could argue that the Mach-E Rally doesn’t really make much sense in Britain, where there aren’t really that many dirt roads you can legally drive down and even fewer where you can exploit the car’s full potential without the risk of thwacking it into a pine tree.

What we do have a lot of, though, are tarmac roads with utterly horrible surfaces that cause much wincing in anything with big rims and firm suspension, so we reckon there’s a use case for it. At any rate, the £2,250 it costs seems like decent value for money when we’re working with a base price of nearly £75,000.