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That's because Ford is the past and Tesla is the future.

Not really - it's because there is a large contingent of folks who hate Ford for some reason and take any opportunity to disparage them.

This guy sounds like a pussy. This is what REAL men use.

Couple of comments from someone who has a lot of experience with both gas & diesel. I'm a trucker. I have run all 48 plus the lower 6 of Canada for 30 years & have almost 3,000,000 miles logged I appreciate diesel engines. I know their advantages & disadvantages I'm also heavily involved in the old car hobby. I have a 22' enclosed car trailer that's outfitted with quite a few "field tools". It's 4500 lbs empty. When I bought my '04 Super Duty, it was a no-brainer to choose the 6.8 V-10. I run my equipment as long as it's still financially viable to do so. Ford was in the middle of the 6.0 fiasco, so that was not something I was going to fight for 20 plus years. I tow my 8-9k lb trailer 12-15 times a year with trips as short as 10 miles or as long as 500. I went with gas not only because of the 6.0 deal, but also because I only live 2 miles from where I work. That may have been a determining factor even if the old 7.3 was available. Short trips will kill diesel engines. 180k miles later, I have no regrets. I service it every 5k with 6 quarts Mobil 1 5W20 ($30 give or take) & a $4 Motorcraft filter. My buddy with a 7.3 diesel does his every 7500 miles with 15 quarts of 5W40 synthetic Rotella ($90 +/-) plus a $12 filter. Service wise, advantage gas. Neither engine has required significant repairs, so as of yet, no comparison there. Neither truck will be sold, so resale is also not applicable. My truck was equipped exactly as I wanted it except it had 3.73 gears. I knew going in I'd swap gears. When the truck had 36k miles, I spent the $1k for the gears & swapped to 4.30s. Again, no regrets. I realize I'm comparing two different engine series here, but I only lost 1.5 mpg highway (staying @ 70 or below). I actually gained .5 mpg in city as long as I don't "play". Towing; I gained significant mileage. The 4.30's put the engine in it's sweet spot in 4th gear at 60 mph (about as fast as you should tow a loaded trailer with trailer tires since they are rated @ 65 mph). Throttle position has as much to do with fuel mileage as rpm does, imo. All this being said: that 7.3 gasser is going to make quite a few people happy. Not everyone wants or needs the upkeep & expense of a diesel. I, for one, will look at that engine when my '04 gives up.

That old Vortex 8100 was not fuel efficient and whatever faults the 6.8 V10 may have had, it basically consigned the Vortex to history. If GM is thinking of a larger gas engine, it better be a a damned site better than the old BBC was..

Enron had a market cap of 70 billion back in the day. We know how that ended.

"To be mentioned in the same sentence as BMW says a lot," Michael Sprague, Lincoln's head of marketing, sales and service in North America, told Automotive News. "There's not one specific silver bullet to fix the residual values. It's something the company has been working toward for a really long time." https://www.autonews.com/sales/lincoln-bests-bmw-audi-and-mercedes-benz-residuals?fbclid=IwAR0RD9PAGqF3iy8OrT1DCGjauI7JVdn1Pt1TGSGrnDEaHAdJumFhC4-8nFA

Now you wait just a minute fuzzy........ Tesla has 2 tents.

That's because people are ignorant to how depreciation works.

There's a rumor going around MAP that somehow we are getting NG Mustang after Bronco launches but I'm calling BS on that one, I just don't see how it's physically possible. I think people confused it with the stamping work for it that we are supposed to be getting.

Keep an eye on the unifor contract coming up this year. That might give an indication of what’s coming.

Why do they need to build a gigafactory? They already sell almost 7 times the vehicles and are net profitable year after year. Seems they are doing just fine the way they are doing it. At what point will their gigafactory need another gigafactory and another? 750k? 1mil? Once they start building more factories, it's going to really resemble what all the other manufacturers are doing.

It is and I returned the message.

LOL, meant to type diesel and somehow managed to type bigger 3500 (too many thoughts while typing) But in any regard, GM has it upper limit set a lot lower than Ford, the 6.6 gas is a reach up from the 6.0 Sand doesn't really go after the 7.3, Ford is in clean air for now while GM contemplates it's next move.

Hence akirby's observation below. The upcoming generation of BEV pickups, while perfectly suitable (and in many cases preferable) for a large number of current buyers, would not work well for your neighbor. And that's just fine.

Those types of buyers are not the target market for a BEV truck. They won't be any time soon with today's technology, if ever.

Thank you. As I started looking into it, it seemed unnecessary, but just wanted to hear what some of your thoughts. I appreciate it.

So to end this story, the dealer and the dealer rep. took charge, dug in and got my Ranger out of "Ramp Jail" (blocked by other Rangers on the Ramp and pushed to later delivery dates). I took delivery this afternoon. This is why I bought from this dealer, Seymour Ford. See Below: