Ford Mustang Mach-E is the winner of 2022 AAA Best Overall Car

07 May 2022

The Americans have it easy - they have AAA that every year conducts a huge research into all cars available in the market. They test a bunch of aspects of the cars - performance, reliability, all running costs, comfort, safety and security and then they put it all in a book released once a year and simply called “AAA Car Guide”. And people have been relying on this publication for over 10 years, the car manufacturers proudly display the test results and achievements of the cars they make or angrily dispute them - depending whether the results are positive or not.

2022 AAA Car Guide has 178 pages and contains everything a lot of helpful buyer tips. Among those questions - which car is the best among all? Mirror mirror on the wall… This year this title went to Ford Mustang Mach-E and in the process it beat competitors such as Volvo XC40 Recharge P8 AWD, Audi e-tron Sportback and VW ID.4 - top 4 places went to fully electric cars.

Mustang isn't getting just one win though, its winning streak continues with Car and Driver’s Electric Vehicle of The Year, Cars.com awarded it Eco-Friendly Car of the Year title, Auto Guide called it Utility of the Year and Autoweek gave it Car Buyer’s Award. It has been a busy first three months of the year for Mach-E and with recent improvements we are sure it will keep on setting benchmarks.

Now with that out of the way - we noticed something strange. AAA did not include Tesla in their tests. Nothing, nada, absolute zero mentions of the Texas automaker as if it did not exist. The winners are picked from a list of 22 car manufacturers and Tesla is not on it.

We can understand why, say, Citroen isn’t on the list since its cars are not sold in the US, but Tesla? Upon closer look we realized there are many other brands missing, so perhaps don't take the ranking as the definitive answer to all your questions.

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