Here Are Pictures Of The 2019 Ford Mustang Mach-E's Unusual Door Handle And Frunk [Updated]

Here Are Pictures Of The 2019 Ford Mustang Mach-E's Unusual Door Handle And Frunk [Updated]

Press photos always make a car look prettier than it really is. They鈥檙e taken from all the optimal angles, with just the right lighting, and they likely go through a lot of post-processing. So if you want to know what the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E looks like in real life, you鈥檒l want to check out this not-particularly-glamorous leaked photo. Update: We now have photos of the unique door handle and frunk! On Thursday, Jalopnik published official Ford press images of the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. The car looks pretty, with the wheels always turned at just the right angle and the light glistening ever so subtly on the car鈥檚 glass and sheet metal. But what I want to see is how the car looks in photos not taken and edited by a professional, which is why this picture posted onto the Ford Mach E Club forum is so enlightening. The car is just sitting in what looks like a studio, with a white background and not a whole lot else to speak of.

Its wheels are turned straight, and the general photo quality looks OK, at best. Update Nov. 16, 2019 10:50 p.m. ET: A representative from MachE Forum just sent us lots of new leaked photos (which include the one shown on the Ford Mach E Club forum), including images depicting the door handle that so many folks have been wondering about. It just appears to be a tiny black wing at the base of the B-pillar. The new photos also show the sizable front trunk, and a decent rear cargo area. We don鈥檛 know much about where these pictures come from, though an 鈥淎D鈥?watermark, which I don鈥檛 immediately recognize, adorns the tops of the images. I don鈥檛 know anything about the car in the image. Nor do I know much about the picture鈥攚ho took it, when they took it, or where they took it鈥攂ut The Breaking News Team at VerticalScope, Inc., which owns the Mach E Club forum, notified Jalopnik of its existence. We鈥檒l keep trying to figure out the image鈥檚 provenance and will update this post if we do. Even in the unspectacular photo, the Mach-E looks pretty good, especially for a crossover. The hood and roofline look aggressive, and the front end does give off some Mustang vibes while maintaining a distinct look. It seems like Ford did a nice job on the design. Expect to see a lot more non-press images tomorrow when the car debuts.

The Ford Mustang is one of a handful of cars rightfully called icons. Since its first spin on a car-show turntable at the World's Fair in 1964, it's been the auto industry's standard measure of overnight success. And for at least some of its wild youth, it was the cautionary tale of what happens when a celebrity hits the skids. This month we're celebrating the arrival of a new Mustang with a look back at the past--before our first test drives of the 2011 pony car. As we spin back through 46 years and 47 model years of Mustangs, it's easy to pinpoint the highlights--and the low-water marks--that have shaped the Mustang's history as much as a stylist's pen, or an engineer's slide rule. Or their MacBook Pros, for that matter. That sounds like a timeline to us. For those of you still writing on paper, reading books and still thinking of the Ford Mustang as a timeworn cliche, it's time for a crash course. And for those of you unabashed about your Mustang love, online and elsewhere, we're going to be tweaking the 'Stangs that history hasn't treated too kindly.

Thankfully, there's never been a better Mustang than the 2011 Mustang we're getting ready to drive--and to show you top to bottom, inside and out across the High Gear Media universe. We're marking the arrival of the 2011 Mustang with a month of new stories, and there's one place to find everything we have in store for you today, in two weeks' time, and after. Set your Google Alerts now: in two weeks, we'll bring you the first drive of the 2011 Ford Mustang both here at TheCarConnection and at MotorAuthority as well. 1962: The Mustang I concept car is the test bed for a new "personal car" project steered by Lee Iacocca. The concept morphs from a radical two-seat, mid-engined roadster into the four-seat Mustang--named either for the P51 Mustang fighter plane from the World War II era, or from the actual horse. Other names in the running? 1964: The Mustang begins production in March, and greets visitors to the New York World's fair on April 17. It's an instant hit--despite the confusion of being a "1/2" model, which vexes car bloggers to this day.