At the beginning of this year, I started preparing to buy a new car. Originally, I was planning to buy a gasoline car by bidding for a license plate.
However, with the Shanghai Auto Show held in April, various new energy vehicles appeared one after another. Apart from the new forces in the automobile industry, traditional automakers have also started to launch their own new energy vehicle models. At this point, I began to think that new energy might really be a trend, and my mindset began to change.
I started searching for new energy vehicles online and found that they are really powerful now. Back in 2018, I drove a new energy vehicle. At that time, the online car rental platforms were largely dominated by Roewe new energy and Chery QQ. I remember clearly that the range dropped 200 km after driving 50 km on the highway, and I had to park and wait for the official to tow my car. This experience left me with a shadow and I basically stopped driving new energy vehicles.
But now automakers have optimized the range problem of new energy vehicles, and new energy vehicle companies have gradually divided into two directions: either intelligent vehicles or electric vehicles with excellent performance. Tesla and XPeng, represented by intelligent vehicles, were my first choices. To be frank, their human-machine interaction and intelligent driving functions are really powerful, and driving is really comfortable, but the riding experience is another matter, especially the jolt during driving after the offline test drive, which is too uncomfortable.
So my target turned to traditional automakers’ electric vehicles. Here, I have to mention BYD. If I hadn’t bought this Mach-E, I might have bought the BYD Han. The Han gives people a simple feeling of purchasing a gasoline car worth 500,000 RMB for just over 200,000 RMB. It’s really cool, and when the badge is covered, the elders sitting inside will definitely give a thumbs up. However, the car’s infotainment system got a lot of negative feedback, and after-sales service seems to need improvement, so I was discouraged.
After deliberating, a particularly cool car pushed to me by Xiaohongshu caught my eye, and it’s the protagonist of this article, the Mustang Mach-E.
I fell in love with this car at first sight at the exhibition hall. The appearance is really amazing, and it has the Mustang badge. I admit that I am vain. I made up my mind after listening to the salesperson’s brief introduction and made the deposit right away. Then I blindly pre-ordered and waited anxiously for delivery.Finally, I got my car on 26th December 2021, which is an amazing Christmas gift! It has been two days since I got my car, and now driving my “Little Horse” on the road, it attracted a lot of attention. Some people even overtook my car and turned back to look at it again.
Overall, I think the driving experience is good, but it still needs some running-in. I used to drive an oil car before, and the brakes of this car are much more sensitive than general oil cars and can easily stop the car.
In fact, so far, although all traditional car companies have tried their best to make the driving experience of electric cars closer to that of oil cars, it is completely impossible for electric cars due to their special power mode to be the same as oil cars.
I think for those of us who choose electric cars, we should start learning the driving mode of electric cars, adapting to the driving mode and feeling of electric cars, which is the single pedal mode. At first, it will be very uncomfortable and unfriendly to passengers, and it is very easy to get carsick. But after adapting, the jerking feeling during driving will disappear when there is a feeling on your foot.
Driving is ultimately a skill, and more practice will naturally make it better. In addition, if you pursue handling, this car will give you a different surprise. As for the cruising range, there is no special advantage. Recently, Shanghai is particularly cold, and when the air conditioning is on, driving one kilometer normally can reduce about three kilometers shown on the dashboard. Anyway, it depends on personal needs, and I have no long-distance travel needs, so it’s okay.
Finally, let’s talk about options. If budget and usage scenarios are not limited, I definitely want to choose the GT version haha, because the 0-100km/h acceleration only takes 3.65 seconds, which is really amazing. But in fact, it is almost impossible to explore the performance of the GT version for daily commuting, so I chose the rear-wheel drive long-range luxury edition because I occasionally have long-distance travel and have higher requirements for the car’s audio quality.
But from the bottom of my heart, I think that the rear-wheel drive long-range regular version has better value for money, because the driving feels of the two long-range versions are the same, and the luxury version only upgrades some of the car’s hardware facilities. If you have connections, you can modify it yourself [smiley face]. Anyway, I think the whole series is still good, and even the base version is also attractive. At this price point, buying a car with such an appearance like Mustang is great. That’s it, I will share more feelings with you in the future!
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