Sherminator98

Man that is gonna be a bitch to do any auto body repair on!

But with city driving you get regenerative charging from braking/slowing down to help with keeping the battery charged. Once a car gets above 50 MPH, the amount of power to keep it over the speed exponentially increases, thus why MPGs drop so much as speed increases. I see this with my Bronco-its a brick aerodynamically-but I can get 20-21 MPG with the 2.7L V6 with my commute to work that the fastest I should go is like 55-60-the vast majority of the time I'm doing 30-45. I can hit the highway and do 70-75 (the wind noise from the roof racks and the car itself gets to be a bit unbearable above that) and I'm lucky if I can keep getting 20 MPG.

Yep I'd say that is it

I think part of the issue your seeing is that certain people who buy EVs are have a superiority complex that manifests itself with products like this-they are being "different" for the sake of being different. like that steering wheel design. Or ones that own Teslas and are slapping other makes names/badges on them after Elon went off the deep end in their eyes-a coworker took a photo of a Tesla X that has a Civic and Honda badge on the back of it. IMO if your that worried about your image with a car, maybe get a new one? FFS!

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/ford-electric-vehicle-platform-battery-efficiency https://evinfo.net/2026/02/next-chapter-in-fords-ev-journey-premiering-tuesday-february-17-2026/

Good luck getting that into production without any changes Its like this And the production car:

https://www.carscoops.com/2026/04/fords-new-electric-van-looks-like-an-undercover-american-cop-car/

Crap I forgot that they where using that on my favorite GM product lol

I kinda like that Mauve color-I wouldn't get it for myself-but it reminds me of the color that was on mid 1980s Pontiac 6000 that a family friend had.

well if GM didn't decide to call their mid/large CUV the Blazer, that would have been a better choice. Then again they could also go with Trailblazer, but IMO my generation knows the two door GM products that where similar to the 1990s Bronco as the Blazer too. We would be the prime target for a product like this.

I have a 2.7L V6 Bronco and I get about 21 mpg with my commute to work or about 400 miles per tank. Outside of someone living in an apartment that doesn’t offer charging or some other situation like that, don’t think 300 miles range is an issue at all if you can plug it in overnight. The range issue boils down to operating a vehicle in a different way then people are use to.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02HM9SXnCjqCeF2YiPES4gc1TweqHSpjGKabCBmkppA9tpvxJbxRFCNmGqoFVRbNRil&id=100069358083066

I don't think they lost that much in actual losses, if they did, they'd be out of business.

Toyota Camry 317,185 309,875 2.36 Toyota Corolla 248,088 232,908 6.52 Honda Civic 238,661 242,005 -1.38 Tesla Model 3 172,800 142,100 21.60 Nissan Sentra 152,579 152,752 -0.11 Honda Accord 150,196 162,723 -7.70 Hyundai Elantra 137,811 136,698 0.81 7 Nameplates sell more then six figures.

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/ford-world-headquarters-south

Confirmation bias

The EU Explorer's counterpart is dead in USA for the time being. https://www.motor1.com/news/792532/volkswagen-id4-dead-us-for-now/

I'm gonna assume it has to do something with side crash impact standards.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/ford-ceo-knew-ev-transition-230110206.html

The Malibu died last year and the other two models (caddys) have a starting price of 50k plus. GM considers the Celestiq a sedan, but that barely moves the needle in sales anyways.

I was talking to my wife about the Buzz...I said to her I don't understand the appeal of it..the people who had them back in the 1960/70 are now so old that they either can't drive or don't want to spend that type of money on a vehicle like that. Its "cool" looking but my generation has no emotional attachment to it like the Baby Boomers would

I finally saw one, in front of a VW dealership lol

That is the billion dollar question- Unless they plan on making a profit on a product that has 2 different variants that only sells a grand total of 150k units a year.

Smaller families have been a thing for the past 20 years or so, since Gen X (which I'm part of) has been in our child bearing years-my sister drove her kids around in an Escape till she got a 2020 Explorer (which is overkill now since both kids drive now) Another factor is marketing-I still think that auto manufactures are still going to focus on more profitable vehicles instead of selling sedans, which don't have that CUV tax of $2500 bucks. Young people will buy what they can afford (or what is bought for them), not what they want, unless they are willing to give up things in exchange to get it. I bought a 1998 Mustang GT in cash because I was saving half my money I was making in the Army plus a deployment. I went into the National Guard because I was working part time to afford the insurance on it because I went to school full time and lived at home for a while because of that. I nearly screwed myself when I bought my 2006 Mustang GT-I happened to get lucky and got an new job before I got it because at my old salary my car note was a bit higher then I expected and I had some other unexpected costs come up (property taxes I think) that I didn't plan for. It all worked out in the end though. I also didn't need to be practical either, because I had a truck I could borrow (my parents lived 20 minutes away) and if it snowed bad enough, work was closed anyways. I guess it boils down to mindset-I see how my niece and nephew are (who are both under 21) and where I work we have younger adults (25 or younger) working here-I know one guy who has bought a new Corvette, but still has an accord they drive to work. I also see someone where I work at with an Aston Martin (which I'm not sure how they do that-I work for the government, its not like we are making an excessive amount of money like you could do on the civilian side) and someone else has a Mustang Dark Horse. A manager I work with has a Rivian RT1, yet again a pretty expensive vehicle (depending on your view) but apparently they can afford it.

I'll disagree on this-every manufacture has seen sedan sales shrink over the past 20 years, even ones that where profitable (i.e. Accord/Camry) or even luxury sedans for example. But it is also a chicken and egg issue-if there was more sedans, would they sell more of them? That remains to be seen. But its been pointed out for the past 30 years or so, customers will overbuy in a vehicle. Even going back to the 1990s when the Explorer was becoming very popular, Ford was still selling the Taurus wagon, which was roughly the same size and offered about the same interior space, but was far more refined, but sales shrunk as time went on. if people actually bought what they needed, they would most likely buy smaller cars, but that hasn't been the case for a very long time.