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At the moment it feels like every other country is being treated like the enemy by USA, just sayin’

Absolutely but I’m looking at the irony of the preferences of the two governments as the rest of the world is about to get its pockets picked by China’s aggressive pricing.. Not critical of the US policy but I think it’s something that needs to be monitored and if direct investment is warranted, do that in lieu of EV tax credits?

While we’re at it get rid of the ridiculously outdated DOT lighting regulations.

China’s battery costs are vastly different in part due to govt subsidies.

You know what’s ironic here? The EREV version has 104 KwHr battery that’s larger than the base Lightning (98 KwHr) plus a 1.5 EB range extender… How odd that China is about to produce this. whale Ford was claiming that big battery costs in electric vehicles were not helping its bottom line… Ford is definitely a corporate full of conflicting views…

This might come as a shock to some people but a lot of buyers like that sort of style but the idea of higher prices inflated by tariffs? Not so much.

Will anyone outside China care for a boring unibody sedan from Ford & Lincoln?

These sound like the kind of names you'd get if you asked a bunch of 5 year olds to name the class pet lol. I hate it, and love it at the same time.

The biggest improvement in emissions and average car fleet fuel economy came in the 1970s and 1980s where car fuel economy average went from 13 mpg to 27 mpg, mostly helping to eliminate smog in large city areas. CAFE has now become more of an impediment to progress and efficiency thanks to its overly high fuel economy targets for cars versus Trucks and Utilities. I think it’s time for a complete tear up and redo of CAFE to reflect the types of vehicles being produced today, the original target (cars) have mostly been replaced by Utilities and Crew Cab Pickups that have much softer targets that everyone seems to want. I think the CAFE limits Aare now so distorted that they actually work against the kind of fuel efficiency possible with lighter lower cost vehicles. I’ll get off the soap box now….

What a nonsense article, I wonder if it was written by AI….. In the past 10 years, Ford has not been fined because of CAFE, hasn’t even come close….

Chinese Mondeo is right there begging to be called Fusion…maybe an MKZ too. Perhaps simple, easy to do is coming back into Ford’s vocabulary

I just noticed that this vehicle has similar length, width and wheelbase as the T6 Everest but zero evidence of any linkage, it might be clever use of Chinese Equator platform? No doubt more details will eventually come out but it looks rather promising/ in the right direction for buyers who want the chunkier looks but maybe not all the off road ability….also perhaps a clever vehicle just below Explorer’s size with less weight and lower construction cost? Sorry, I’m assuming a lot here that can’t be fact checked yet and could be on the completely wrong path with these assumptions…

It's China. They have weird names. Great Wall Motors makes vehicles named Big Dog, Mocha, Latte, King Kong Cannon, Good Cat, Lightning Cat, etc No lies on those names....

https://www.autonews.com/ford/ane-ford-new-cars-europe-0716/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-ANEDaily-20250718 This article shared with me said the first of these car models will arrive in 2027. CE1 products are gonna start to be rolled out in 2026 and 2027. We've also heard this CE1 platform is underpinning car body styles, a sedan specifically has been talked about and shown to dealers in rendering form. It sounds like those cars have since been greenlit and that's what we're hearing about. We've been hearing about the CE1 truck forever, but there's a whole product line that's gonna use this platform. So it stands to reason we'll start to head more about those sorts of products right about now.

With us hearing how the skunkworks EVs are gonna come out in 2026 and 2027, and now getting this news that these car models will arrive in 2027, and how this skunkworks platform can accommodate 8 different body styles, I believe we're gonna get some CE1 sedans and hatchbacks.

Not sure how borrowing something from VW is faster than their own C2 stuff?

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65436635/2026-hyundai-santa-fe-transmission-change/

The only plausible path for Ford Europe to add some new products quickly would be to borrow something from VW... but it's a short term fix. If they want to have long term solution, they have to keep Kuga in production (the last remaining C2 products in Europe) until they can develop a new gen. If C2 goes away completely in Europe, the economics of restarting production is basically impossible. All your suppliers will be gone and they won't make time for you again.

It still takes minimum 3 years to do a new body on top of C2. By that time, Fiesta would have left the market for 6 years, Focus for 4 years, and Kuga for 2 years. Sales momentum will be non-existent and Ford has to basically relaunched as a new brand to buyers who have never considered it before. If Ford really wants to save its European business, they have to keep the Kuga in production and new products in the next 12 months. Waiting 3 years to bring back Fiesta or Focus is just as nutty as cancelling them in the first place.

Ideally, they could (hopefully) take some learnings from the skunkworks program and apply it to C2?

No, each example you listed is the same body with different powertrains. This one they debuted is a different body, same name, same showroom. Y'all are being difficult on purpose. They literally have two vehicles called Ford Bronco with completely different bodies. not "Ford Bronco" and "Ford Bronco Sport" I guess if they're going to pass it off as "Ford Bronco New Energy" and have "new energy" be the model designation (i.e. Sport) sure, but that's a dumb name lol. I guess are the others "Ford Bronco New Energy BEV, Ford Bronco New Energy PHEV" Etc.???

Subaru Built A 338hp AWD EV That Launches Like A Hot Hatch On Caffeine | Carscoops Weird name for their copy paste of the CH-R

The Hyundai 8-speed Dual Clutch Transmission was recalled in December 2022 for the following: Certain Hyundai vehicles equipped with 8-speed dual clutch transmissions (DCT) may encounter drivability symptoms, such as rough upshifts, hesitations, or lack of motive power, and/or certain Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) such as P1C2D03 And again in 2024 for their propensity to self-destruct: The Dual Clutch Transmission (“DCT”) in the subject vehicles could become damaged during normal operation due to Transmission Control Unit (“TCU”) software logic that could inadvertently engage the clutches and damage the transmission case and/or parking pawl.

Yea, that was a rhetorical question. 😄Repealing CAFE is logical and common sense. That makes it too hard to do for the Congress critters. Another thing that's logical and common sense is to index the federal gasoline and diesel fuel excise tax to inflation. It's been at $0.184/gallon (gasoline) and $0.244/gallon (diesel) for almost 32 years, they should be at least $0.411/gallon (gasoline) and $0.545/gallon (diesel) by now. But common sense ain't common in Congress

This is a chance at a clean sheet to create a low priced platform probably starting with C2. The question is how much of the infrastructure can be clean sheet vs having to reuse the old stuff that was highly inefficient.