oh man I have been wanting to try one of these so bad for so long Ford mcky we
freaking got one Ford's first full electric vehicle and you know a lot of
people have been complaining like is it a Mustang is it not a Mustang it doesn't
make V8 noises or like plow into crowds of people but at the same time just look
at it I don't know if it like really translates the video here but I think it
looks sick like coming around the front here compared to like a Tesla this is
just so much more prominent and like when you're in the vehicle looking out
it just feels like muscle car under the
hood I guess you get what's sort of a frunk but it's like a cheater frunk Ford
says it so you can like put your drinks in there and throw in a bunch of ice and
I guess go to a frunk party but at the same time it feels kind of just like a
cop out to me because like I think that they just wanted to Safe cost not
waterproofing this and making it a proper frunk moving around to the side
one thing you might notice doesn't exist are door handles on the driver's side I
kind of like it like the button works really well and then you can just pull it out with this little handle you also
get the nice keypad so that you can punch in like your code to get in I
personally really appreciate that what I'm not a huge fan of is that on the
back you just get a button and then you kind of have to like pull it out not a
huge problem in most situations probably but being from the East Coast where like
lots of snow and rain happens I would be
pretty concerned that you might just get locked out of your back if you know you
can't really pull on it when it freezes shut the overall look from the side
though I think is awesome like it has this real kind of almost shooting brake
style look around to the back you know you get the good old tailgate with what
is loads of storage in my opinion we don't have like boxes to Chuck in and
then down below there's just your charger yeah it's kind of slow opening
and closing like I don't care too much about the
closing but I open my tailgate way faster than that so this is adjusted for
Brandon actually it's further back than I was and I'm like 6 ft keeps of space
especially off this kind of encroaches so you probably don't want like three
adults back here but at the same time what car do you want three adults in the
back in the middle we get two cup holders although it looks like yeah
there's no ski hatch so you can't put stuff right through the middle also down
below we get type c and type A for charging got a little spot to stash your
stuff oh oh oh that's a big deal right there I was going to complain about how
the headrest was when I was up front but it turns out that you can just adjust it
which is sick you don't get a lot of buttons around but you get enough that
it's it's just nice there's this nice little handle for getting out and it
works really good and it's super satisfying I think it's made out of aluminum with a bit of plastic you also
get you know your lock unlock and your
driving positions this is really comfortable it's like lightly bolstered
on the sides but in a way that holds me in really well you can kind of shake
around like this and you just feel supported and they're comfy in a way
that I find the Tesla ones just aren't as for the steering wheel this leather
that's wrapped around it is fantastic like it's so plush and I really like
pushing into it my only complaint though is that this plastic bit down here when
you're kind of like spinning the wheel around I find that my hand kind of gets
caught on it as for controls though I think they're great you push up and down
for like volume or setting your cruise control and the rest is all just really
simple one complaint that I'll get more into once we get the infotainment though
there's a button right here for your assist but it only goes to the Ford
assistant and not to your like Android auto assistant like it does in the Ford
that I own and this is just so much worse cuz Ford assistant is just
absolutely useless so now we know this works well as a normal car but does the
tech hold up honestly a lot of things about it that are pretty annoying like
there's no automatic return to Android auto button and there's no like home
screen or return to Ford Sync now the biggest thing this does have over a
Tesla is the Android auto or apple
carplay integration it's just it's the best way to interface with your phone
it's wireless so I can just you know Chuck this in my pocket and it works or
I can chck it down here and there's wireless charging which also seems to
just work great now what Android auto gives me is super easy access to like
Spotify or in my case like pocketcasts
you can just come in here boom your podcasts are there like if we come over
to Spotify and we want to play crab Brave we just just click on the thing
and they like play crab Rave crab Rave
by noise storm sure playing on Spotify it just does it it's
fantastic what also is pretty fantastic are the speakers I'm not like completely
sold on them they're banging oal sin and like up here there's like a soundbar
that goes all the way across the dash I don't know they're kind of Muddy so I'll
show you what I did here I had to take the mid-range and just crank it right
down to get any thing that sounded good out of these but once I did this and had
the separation between the base and the treble in the mid-range they're pretty
great hey Brandon says maybe a little bit better than the speakers in the
model X don't expect it to blow you away but at the same time you'll be happy now
for the drive modes you get whisper which I think is a comfort mode you also
get engaged it's like sport but not very sporty and then you get unbridled for
when you really want to give her now it is kind of cool I need to turn it on for
it to show up but when you change the modes the thing around the speedometer
changes depending on which mode you're in and it's just a really nice little
touch what we're going to show you right now this is maybe one of the coolest
things now this is available in like a fair few cars now but the 360 around the
car is just so awesome we parked in a
parking spot earlier when we were setting up for this and Brandon had had
just taken all of his camera stuff and put it beside the car and then we like drove out and drove back in and it was
pretty much as small of a parking spot including things that you just can't see
at all and using this camera we're able to park it without a problem it's
freaking sick like I would say like compared to the Tesla this is worse but
the Tesla does not have the 360 not in Brandon's at least really excited to
finally actually hit the gas in this thing you kind of do want to normally
leave it not in the unbridled mode I found that like coming on and off the
gas and hitting the brakes was just a little bit on the jerky side in there
like it's all fine and good to improve the throttle response but at the same
time I want to be able to drive smoothly while I do it what's coming here driving
modes we're in whisper now the drivetrain feels great but I'm pretty
disappointed in the suspension like we're coming up on some speed bumps right here and it's just
oh that's like 12 km hour and it is not
comfortable at all so like compared to something like the model y it is very
similar but at the same time I did not really enjoy the driving dynamics of the
model y so there you go I guess this
thing's like $74,000 Canadian for that amount of
money I really feel like that you should have adjustable dampers now we do have
it unbridled mode we're going into a little tight little corner here oh wow
it kind of feels like it gives up a bit early it feels like that after about 100
km per hour you're really not getting that electric car push whereas in like
the model y performance especially that thing just Rockets you and just keeps on
going past like 150 now adjustable dampers and more power will be available
in the GT version of this which is coming out I think next year but again
this is already like $74,000 Canadian I don't want to be
spending $100,000 on a car that is very
similar to what like a $70,000 model y
in the most go mode and hit
it that's pretty good but uh it has a
Mustang badge though like that's very
similar to like my Fiesta ST this is a 0
to 60 of 6.1 seconds yeah it feels less immediate than a Tesla this is
definitely fast enough for you to drive like a bit of a jerk though that is for
sure the steering input's good but I'm
not getting a whole lot back like it's the same problem that I had with the
Tesla where like when I'm turning the
steering wheel it goes where I point it
but I'm not like the chassis isn't telling me anything the steering wheel
isn't telling me anything I'm just trusting that everything's fine and like
we're not on a track so it's not like it really matters but there is definitely a
level of disengagement from the drive
compared to something like my Fiesta so
Brandon says that he really likes one pedal my problem with one pedal is that
I find that I don't like just keeping my foot on the gas so much okay cruise
controls set Lane keeping system
on so when you have the Lan keep and
cruise on your speedometer goes over to
the side instead of saying staying in the center here's a big challenge for
the Lan keep assist I'm going to just oh
we're going into a corner will it keep me oh yep that
worked really well now there's a truck in front oh the adaptive cruise does not
seem great although at the same time they kind of cut us off now it seems to
be just keeping up these are some pretty complex turns here and the lane keep
seems great oh that's a bit scary that
was a touch scary but at the same time like it might have been fine I just
don't want to find it in a situation where falling off bridge
is a potential I would say this is very
comparable to autopilot in my little bit of using it at least yeah I have no clue
how much I trust it either like that was sketchy Oh that's oh yep the bed there
so there we were just coming up to an intersection so it was a slight corner
and then like you know how there's left turn and the yellow line kind of goes
like that it decided that it wanted to follow that
and it was not pleasant according to Brandon autopilot feels
like it's still more refined I would say as far as for just driving on the
highway this would be really good I want this in my car so to be clear this is
just First Impressions I don't want to
finally compare this to like the model y because I just don't have enough time in
this I need to spend like a week or maybe even more getting to know how this
actually feels to drive and what annoyances you just completely forget
about after a week and what stuff is still annoying long term now this is our
first car review on ShortCircuit so
just plop down in the comments like for one if you liked it and how we can make
it better in the future and also what other cars you want us to cover so yeah
I think that's about it honestly this thing's pretty freaking sick and I can't
wait for more electric cars to come out that oh oh wait did you hear that
Brandon there's a V8 noise in there I didn't hear that before Oh that's fake
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