Ford will deal with the 2025 Pikes Peak Worldwide Hill Climb with the Tremendous Mustang Mach-E.
Other than a physique shell that vaguely resembles the manufacturing automotive, there’s little in frequent between the Tremendous Mustang Mach-E and the common Mustang Mach-E.
The clearest hyperlinks between the 2 autos are the designs for the head- and tail-lights.
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There’s a entrance massive splitter jutting fairly a great distance out and an infinite rear diffuser. Each are utterly outdone by the towering wing that rises out of the place the rear windscreen would usually be, and stands taller than the highest of the roof.
With its longer, flatter bonnet, in addition to its low stance and extensive arches, the race automotive appears extra like a daily coupe than a family-friendly SUV.
The Tremendous Mustang Mach-E rides on OZ Racing wheels shod with slick Pirelli tyres.
Up to now Ford hasn’t launched any particulars concerning the Tremendous Mustang Mach-E, besides to say its outlandish aero equipment generates a most of 2835kg of downforce.
That bests the 2722kg generated by the F-150 Lightning SuperTruck which Ford took to the Peak in 2024, and the 1996kg produced by the Transit SuperVan 4.2 entered into the 2023 problem.
Final yr’s SuperTruck (beneath) was powered by three six-phase Stard UHP motors making a complete of 1193kW (1600hp).
Regardless of its brick-like look, the SuperTruck completed first general final yr. Piloted by Romain Dumas, the SuperTruck managed to wend its approach via 156 corners to succeed in the 4300m summit in 8:53.553.
Romain Dumas is sticking with Ford this yr, and can pilot the Tremendous Mustang Mach-E. If the automotive is highly effective and effectively sorted sufficient, he would possibly even be capable of beat the EV document he set in 2018 with the Volkswagen ID. R, which received that yr’s race up the mountain in 7:57.148.
Even when the Tremendous Mustang Mach-E is crushed to the highest by one other competitor, it must be considerably faster than the Mannequin T used within the 1916 race, which took 28 minutes and three seconds to ascend the height alongside the then unpaved highway.
