Should you’re the form of particular person that appears upon the all-electric Ford Mustang Mach-E and desires it may do extra, then Ford is perhaps about to reply your prayers. The Blue Oval simply premiered a brand new rally-inspired addition to the Mach-E household with a slick set of wheels and the promise of higher off-road efficiency.

Referred to as the Mustang Mach-E Rally, the brand new mannequin debuted on the Goodwood Pageant of velocity, the place it was pushed up the occasion’s hillclimb course by World Rally champion Ott Tänak, who at present drives the M-Sport Ford Puma hybrid rally automotive.

The brand new automotive will take Ford’s learnings from the World Rally stage and make that efficiency obtainable to common drivers. As such, the corporate says the brand new version will permit the Mustang to go “the place it by no means has gone earlier than — the place the tarmac ends and the grime highway begins.”

Curiously, Ford already has an off-road efficiency model within the type of the Raptor sequence of automobiles, which incorporates the Bronco, F-150 and Ranger fashions. So, why has this new rugged Mach-E taken a give attention to the nimble, excessive velocity world of rally moderately than the brute drive behind the Raptor sequence?

Sadly, we don’t know the reply to that simply but, like we don’t know a lot in regards to the new automotive actually both. Ford has remained tightlipped on the specs of the Mustang Mach-E Rally however confirmed that it’s a production-ready mannequin that can hit our shores very quickly. Actually, the rally-inspired SUV will go on sale within the U.S. later this yr and also will be in the stores throughout Europe when it launches.

“Mustang Mach-E took the liberty and enjoyable of Mustang and made it free from emissions,” stated Darren Palmer, vp of electrical automobile packages, Ford Mannequin E, in a press release. “Now with Mustang Mach-E Rally, we’re offering our clients the liberty to enterprise off the asphalt and past the crushed path.”

So, what would you prefer to see from a rally-inspired Mustang? And might it ever stay as much as the hype that surrounded the wonderful Mustang Hoonicorn, which was the final Mustang to indicate its prowess on the tough stuff within the palms of Ken Block?