Ford’s Mustang Mach-E GT California Special blends the old with the new

Ford’s Mustang Mach-E is having a comparatively bully year, outpacing its state brethren successful sales for the period of August. The expiration of the $7,500 national EV taxation credit doesn’t mean overmuch to the Mach-E, which is made successful Mexico and truthful ineligible for the credit. But with clouds looming connected the horizon, Ford wants to support the momentum going by releasing a caller peculiar variation mentation that harkens backmost to the pony car’s bygone days.

The Ford Mustang Mach-E GT California Special, announced today, is simply a caller rotation connected a constricted variation tally of the archetypal Mustang from 1968. The caller electrical mentation includes changes to the vehicle’s body, caller wheels, caller interior graphics, and a caller overgarment color.

Ford says it wanted to instrumentality a “bold look” astatine the archetypal California Special Mustangs, with their distinctive reddish and achromatic colour scheme, and fig retired however to bring that wrong the Mach-E design. That translates into trading the red-and-black overgarment for a caller colour called Rave Blue, which Ford says mimics the bluish coastal waters of California.

The California Special besides removes the broadside scoops, adds 20-inch carbonized grey wheels with a printed GT/CS logo, and gloss achromatic aero instrumentality covers. There’s a caller illuminated Rave Blue pony emblem connected the grille, and a peculiar hood graphic, besides coastline inspired. Ford said they didn’t privation to transcript and paste what they did with the two-door Mustang, but alternatively grant the Mach-E’s spot successful the Mustang lineup with its ain identity.

The caller peculiar variation is built connected the Mach-E’S GT show package, with an EPA-estimated 280 miles of range, 480 horsepower, and 700 lb-ft of torque. Ford says it volition commencement astatine $55,890, which is simply a $2,495 premium implicit the Mach-E GT’s suggested terms of $53,395. It caller show EV volition beryllium disposable to bid connected October 22nd, and volition statesman arriving astatine dealers successful the archetypal 4th of 2026.