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Jim Farley talks Ford's motorsport involvement, an electric Mustang, and what would lead to his dismissal

Jim Farley, president and CEO of Ford, has just qualified 13th. It’s 2pm and we’re at the 81st Goodwood Members’ Meeting, where the Ford Mustang 289 V8 that Farley is sharing with Britain’s Steve Soper, the former BTCC ace, has finished in the top half of a stellar 30-car field in qualifying for the inaugural Ken Miles Cup. It’s a special one-make event staged to mark the 60th anniversary of the Mustang’s launch.

If I were to tell him we were looking at an all-electric Mustang coupé, he’d tell me he was looking at a new CEO…” That’s all very well, I say, but how does that square with the 2035 date much of the world says it’s working towards for the wholesale adoption of EVs? Doesn’t that mean ICE Mustangs, and especially V8s, will have disappeared by then? “Are you sure?” Farley shoots back. “I don’t think we know.

 

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