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Inside Ford’s private off-road track where it tests its wildest electric machines


Ford’s private off-road track is for its less-than-street-legal EVs.

But Ford’s mission to spice up its EV efforts has resulted in some other, much wilder machines in some unusual shapes, so-called “demonstrators” that offer levels of performance so outrageous they’re decidedly illegal for the street. In the American sense, a rallycross is generally a rural affair, an amateur event where people slide their Subarus around traffic cones placed on pastures or gravel parking lots. Despite sales of electric cars continuing to climb, there’s a perceived softness in the market, a bit of smoke being fanned furiously by a curiously dedicated group of American EV haters.

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