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I absolutely believe this is the current plan. I also believe Farley will dump it if something new and shiny comes across his desk.

IMO the biggest problem with it is that it lacked any sort of style to it...its an amorphic blob

They are watching more closely and finding problems a lot earlier, but that's not the problem. Not everything shows up on inspection like not properly heat treating valves. They need to put the engineers in charge of procurement instead of the finance team and start paying a little more for better quality.

Sounds like the only solution is for suppliers to push back and if necessary walk away before Ford gets the message. I hope more vertical integration eliminates a lot of these issues.

https://fordauthority.com/2026/05/the-first-canadian-ford-super-duty-pickups-have-arrived/

Fail fast is a similar concept to agile software development. Instead of spending weeks or months trying to develop something perfect, get something good out quickly and see how it works and see what doesn't work then refine it the same way. No committees, no red tape. As morgan20 keeps pointing out it remains to be seen if the rest of the company can be dragged into this culture (kicking and screaming I imagine)or of they'll slowly slip back to the old ways. I'm also cautiously optimistic.

These units are first phase units, TT build phase. Only launch team and team leaders are at the plant along with MP and L and quality people. The majority of us are still off built will be back in a few months for full production. June 15th most people will get called back for three weeks of safety and in class training then possibly laid off again til whenever were needed.

F-series motor company lol

Hello everyone. My wife and I are back in a Ford vehicle for the first time in quite a while. We just picked up a 2026 Lincoln Aviator and we are both impressed with the vehicle and the tech. Our last Ford vehicles were a 1990 Bronco XLT and a 1988 Thunderbird Turbo Coupé (with a manual transmission!).

A corporation trying to maximize profits? Who knew?

All Ford said was it would be affordable and a new kind of truck. Everything else is speculation.

CX735 is the next gen Bronco Sport. I’m not sure what this means with selling part of the plant site to Geely and with the new EU tariffs of 25% but I’m assuming it will be relocated back to somewhere in North America for the 200,000 units needed for this market. To be fair about the constant product delays and Farley’s changes in strategy, it doesn’t help when the political climate and tariffs keep changing by the day / week. Ford can’t build a vehicle in a place where it will face tariffs which will seriously erode the margins of profitability on it.

How many times do I have to say it for you guys to believe me? Farley's goal all along was to make Ford Europe exit building passenger vehicles. This is why Romania was transferred to Ford Otosan. This is why there is no attempt to fix Explorer and Capri because Farley wants to shut down Cologne. This is why Escape/Kuga replacement was cancelled so no new tooling needed at Valencia. This is why Ford is not just using Renault platform for next gen EV but actually having Renault build it. Farley wants to get out of building passenger cars in Europe.

let's cancel all products with questionable replacements until we have to dump the factory too.... I guess Farley is content to just be a badge in Europe...

We've noticed. 😎

Finally received a PA title for the Mark VII in mid April which I immediately sent back to PennDot along with photos and the MV-11 form to apply for antique plates. I received the new antique plate yesterday (5/4/26). I previously had a 90 day temporary plate. So with the new plate she's all nice and legal to drive again. Getting the PA title was a bit of a struggle. That took about three months. This car came from Ontario, Canada and PennDot initially wouldn't accept copies of the Homeland Security or EPA forms even though U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Buffalo had no issues with copies. This all started when I hired TFX International and a customs brokerage firm to handle the transportation and border crossing. One of TFX's claims to fame is that they handle all of the transportation within Canada for Barrett-Jackson auctions. Obviously a reputable company. Rather than snail mail the original forms to all of the required entities (including myself for signatures), TFX sent all of that stuff electronically to everyone who needed to add anything which meant that there was no such thing as a true "original" of any of the completed documents and, again, border crossing had no issue with any of that. As a matter of fact, the driver of the transport truck told me that he had a full trailer when he crossed the border and that it only took about an hour and half to get the entire trailer load through customs. Fortunately, TFX did keep the versions of the forms that they originally added their info to and they overnighted those to me which I had to then add my signature to before forwarding them to PennDot. WHEW!

This is true about Escape buyers not flocking to the Bronco Sport. But 1/3 of Escapes were going to rental fleets. Ford wasn’t dumping them per se but they had a steady flow to keep production going. Again not hugely profitable at all. The 2026 Bronco Sport had bad lease programs because they were focusing on the remaining 2025 units. They fixed that for May so we should see some more Bronco Sports moving now and also thanks to the Employee Pricing plan now underway.

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Lincoln has unveiled a one-off Navigator for Serena Williams. Features a Perfect Rose exterior with custom wheels and accents. Two-tone cabin sports rose gold flourishes and hand-painted console. https://www.carscoops.com/2026/04/lincoln-serena-williams-navigator/

I'm about to be a hero to a young man who had ordered his Mustang GT in December. It came in early this week, and he had to push picking it up to today at the earliest. 😁

Maybe Ford should try making the vehicle into something not "boring" instead of just canceling it..... I know the factors involved/that lead to it, just seems like it's their own doing. Instead of trying, they exit the segment. Hopefully the rumored replacements do well.

How many ways can this guy say the same thing over and over again?

Some people would disagree with that! 😄 But, most of them aren't around anymore due to their BS attitude. 😄

Oh please Autoblog. The $8B loss had nothing to do with tariffs.

I think at this point, the answer to this would also depend on whether Lincoln is getting a version of the 4-door Mustang or not. If they are, there's no reason to bring Zephyr over. If they aren't, then I do think they should bring Zephyr over to give them a sedan offering.

Complete shitshow article. Confusing two different trucks.

1) this wouldn’t surprise me. If they’re trying to keep a design hidden until debut, releasing sketches makes no sense, though I would believe we could see a mixture of some elements from the sketches. 2) this also makes sense with them being so aero-focused 3) if true, this is a mistake. One of the best things Ford did was to include the small screen behind the wheel on Mach E. we’ll see how much of it is accurate. the way I’ve always viewed it - even if he’s wrong about what the details are, at least it gives us some sort of discussion points. Otherwise what would we talk about, nothing? Lol

Thank god!

To my eye the C pillar design looks really strange with its angle in the first photo..something looks "off" about it I'm getting ZDX vibes from it

Other manufacturers aren’t having anywhere near the issues with supplier quality as Ford, which leads to the conclusion that Ford is designing inferior parts to be manufactured or is squeezing suppliers to the point that quality control is significantly compromised. Most likely some of both and/or Ford is the world’s worst at selecting suppliers.

FTFY

In the $20ks probably means $29K.

70% of line up will get update in the next 3 years... is just business as usual at other car companies. But apparently it is a revolutionary idea at Ford 🤡 5 year model cycle is industry standard (except in China where it is 2 years max). So a competent car company should have 20% of its line up turn over each year.

This is a deal breaker for me.

Yea, exactly. Not only that, but without the not invented here syndrome that bedeviled Ford's past efforts to do things in house, in which worse outcomes were common with respect to time, cost, and quality. Skunkworks seems to have kicked off a transformation at Ford that's not just operational, but cultural too. That's why I continue to be cautiously optimistic that the upcoming CE1 product launches will be a success on time, cost, and quality metrics.

Well at least you can see the light at the end of the tunnel and its not the 3 row Bullet train EV 😛

Author Mercedes does some excellent research for her articles, especially given that she was born about the time Ford abandoned heavy trucks. As for sales volume dropping, the numbers don't lie but Ford was still doing well in the vocational market in the 90s but the regulated common carrier fleets that bought thousands of day cab tractors were dropping like flies in the 80s and 90s and Ford was slow in bringing out sleeper cab conventional L series to sell to the deregulated fleets that replaced them. Mack had the same problem in the market as the R model didn't have the greatest sleeper options, but they solved it in the late 80s with the CH and CL conventional with integrated sleeper cab options.

https://www.theautopian.com/38-years-ago-ford-tried-to-make-trucking-23-percent-more-efficient-and-failed-so-hard-it-doesnt-make-semis-anymore/

Yeah, Escape is so "boring" that my girlfriend is on her 5th one....started in 2002, then 2005, then 2010, then 2017...each one rolling up a trouble free 100+K miles with no issue....she had a Forester between the 2010 and 2017 and it had nothing but issues so she got back into an Escape for 2017....when it came time, she felt she wanted something a little smaller since she had retired and took a CX-30 Mazda out for a test ride, and did not like it. She got a 2024 Escape and is enjoying it.....she looked at a Bronco Sport, but did not like it. It will be several years before she needs a replacement, I hope Ford has a small SUV available that is more Escape-esque or she may just end up elsewhere, I hope not. She never thought her Escape was "boring".

Chevrolet called...they want their Malibu Maxx back.

I mean, who didn't understand this?

It's good that they have all of the other segments in the lineup covered, so they have time/funds to squeeze an 87th truck into the lineup!

If I buy a mustang as a toy it's going to be a 70 boss 302 grabber blue with black stripes. As for manuals I'll take a DCT over the automatic or manual. Better performance than both and easier to drive in traffic. And you still get to shift. And I like manuals but I do not miss the clutch.

I walked many miles just changing the TV station on command. And we only had 3 channels, sometimes 4 if the weather was perfect!

according to this Lincoln will unveil the 2027 Corsair this week at the Beijing auto show, also two special editions, 1 for the Zephyr and 1 for the Nautilus https://db.m.auto.sohu.com/model_5553/a/1012125229_380195 https://a.xcar.com.cn/aikahao/item/3764252.html

IMO I think the issue with this product and other EVs: Other automakers saw the success that Tesla was having with their products and tried to replicate it. However the problem with that was they where trying to chase down a certain type of customer who was already being served by Tesla products I'm personally slightly turned off by the minimalist style and interiors of Tesla products-they look "boring and cheap" I get why its being done also (weight savings/cheaper to build) Styling has been overall disappointing with the vast majority of EVs-Kia's EV and the Mach E are some of the better looking products, but once again, the exteriors are getting hit with that minimalist style again. Once again, IMO Automakers need to stop making EVs "look different" with in reason, because there is a rather large portion of the car buying public that doesn't want to stick out or look different like say early Prius or Tesla buyers who think they are better then other people who don't have a hybrid or EV. I think that also doesn't help EV sales either.