Ford Mustang Mach E

Hey mine has that little horsey on the back and on the floor passenger and rivers side, even lighted ones as you approach the car in the dark😎

Exactly and no one was falling for that either.

Be interesting to see if the Explorar does any better.

Ford have a track record of getting pricing very wrong especially their more premium offerings: the Probe, the Edge and the Mustang Mach E were all very overpriced and sold poorly as a result. Though the mustang Mach is a great product and is a very desirable car

I see the base price has dropped to 58,000 now, at least according to the website.

Says 32 weeks for delivery though!

You think the mach-e is just going to go completely?

I actually quite like the look of the explorer - do we have any idea what the price might be?

VRT is 0 on an EV. Should be no VAT or Excise on car coming from NI if the car is originally registered in NI or been in NI for period of time prior to your import.

Seen it and it may be exaggerated slightly but I think it’s quite plausible to be fair to her. Not many car dealers wanting to buy in a 2024 EV for retail stock, particularly a Ford.
That said cheapest I can find available currently is a 2022 LR version for €27K from N.I.
If you put a 2024 Mach-E into the Tesla trade in system, you’ll get your answer.

The low value offered for the car she spoke of may have more to do with the particular model not because it is an EV.

It is an anecdote but I was talking last year to the sales guy in a BMW dealer about trade in values for EV’s. He mentioned some cars were in demand and others not.
For example he told me that they were trying to sell a BMW iX 40 model for months and there was no interest in it until a guy with a mustang Mach e wanted to trade in for it. The sales man said he would take a punt by taking it as a trade in just to get rid of the iX and offered small money for the mustang but the guy took it as he wanted out of it badly. The BMW guy said it broke his heart trying to get someone in the trade including Ford dealers to take it off his hands even at low price. He eventually got a Ford dealer to take it off his hands but said they wouldn’t take another one in again…

It doesn’t seem to be a car in much demand.

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, the Mach E doesn't sell well and is not in demand so I'm not surprised at lowball overs. This one seemed particularly low though and what really bugged me was her taking this anecdotal incident to smear all EVs.

As a small dealer with no servicing facilities she's obviously very vulnerable to depreciation in trade-in a but she's constantly pushing a lot of "EVs don't work, they halve in value each year, you can't get parts" topics.

Some of this is partly social media driven. She can spit out whatever clickbait suits to a gullible audience.

Similar story with some folk selling Jap imports currently, they’ll slate Irish cars with higher mileage to push their own stock. Others will diss Jap imports that they’re all clocked, crashed, can’t get parts etc.

lovely car but I very rarely ever see one. Must be a (another) total financial disaster for Ford If the sales figures are replicated in other markets. I don’t think Mustang has enough premium catchet outside North America to do the numbers Ford probably expected and they don’t have the market credibility to compete in the premium end. Just remember the Scorpio disaster of the mid 90s