Mustang Drag Race Settles The Debate If The Ford Mach-E Is A True Muscle Car

The Ford Mustang Mach-E, which debuted as the brand's first electric vehicle

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has been an enormous success. It's a useful and roomy electric SUV that

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has some of the most stylish design found in a contemporary electric vehicle

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Is it, however, truly a muscle car? After all, it bears the Mustang moniker,

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We were able to see the Mustang Mach-E competing against its real muscle car brother

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thanks to a video posted on the Wheels YouTube channel.

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