Sherminator98
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3 hours ago, Reastir said:
It’s surprising to see any incentives at all for a first-year redesign, given the strong demand, but I guess it’s a way to keep the momentum going after the production hiccups.
Uh this was almost 2 years ago and it was due to production delays
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17 hours ago, mackinaw said:
You joke, but there's a very good chance that the new LFP battery plant in Michigan may not happen. I those batteries go away, I expect many changes to their EV product plans. See today's Autoline Daily. Go to the 4:30 mark.
Don't they already have a plant in Michigan they are working on? I know one was cancelled and another was half way done?
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1 hour ago, balthisar said:
I know you probably want to hear that there's a dedicated person cruising forums and social media looking for problems, but when you sell three quarters of a million F-150's in a single year, it's much more effective to monitor warranty claims at the dealer level than it is to look at self-selected social media.
There was a FMC "Bot" at the Bronco6G forums, but it shut down a while ago.
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15 hours ago, tbone said:
It is impressive and the price is incredible. Makes the price of the Mustang GTD and GT look ridiculous.
I dunno-all I can see is dealerships adding a 100% ADM on them (being completely unaware of how they are being sold to customers).
I see no reason why GM shouldn't be selling this car for $250-300K. Ford sold every single GTD and GT they made.
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1 hour ago, rmc523 said:
Yeah, it'll be nice to see Ford actually show something for a change. Seems like they've been talking about things forever now with nothing to show. Constantly cancelling products will do that for ya....
Since the Bronco and Ranger Launches, we've had no new products released....so yeah there is an issue.
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3 hours ago, akirby said:
That’s what they’re implying but I don’t know if it’s accurate.Also throw in the rumor that Louisville assembly will be building a EV pickup that is in-between the Ranger and Maverick also.
I have a feeling that Ford isn't showing all their cards here either-or one of these products will be a Bronco branded one, which would help make sense of having 3 different EV pickups, which coincidentally are the worst selling EV products too.
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1 hour ago, Harley Lover said:
It also might mean that the facility in Michigan where the current Lightning is built could be repurposed for another product or some less savory outcome.
Rouge Electric Vehicle "Plant" is more or less just an additional assembly building that got fed from DTP from what I understand.
People who work there have first dibs for jobs at BOC from the last UAW contract also.
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39 minutes ago, Rick73 said:
In my opinion the real issue is that government shouldn’t get involved in micromanaging automotive engineering and designs. Even if this system saves 3 or 4 percent on fuel, and I doubt it does, why shouldn’t drivers have choice to drive 3 or 4 percent less, or buy a vehicle that is 3 or 4 percent more fuel efficient to start with so they don’t have to tolerate a function they don’t like? That’s just one example. Losing freedom of choice is a slippery slope. I’m all for saving the planet and reducing GHGs but there has to be a better way than forcing people to buy features they don’t want.
Why should have people been forced to buy cars with catalytic converters/smog pumps that cut power 50% that made vehicles more dangerous to drive?
In my experience with stop/start-it doesn’t engage unless you have the brake completely pressed down to the floor. You can let pressure off the peddle a hair and not have the vehicle move, but the stop start disengages, for situations like that.
It’s pretty much unobtrusive at this point. I do notice that the Fusion hybrid I had did have a more noticeable delay in it vs the Escape or the Broncos I have now.
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I dunno the Model X and Y look like bloated ticks to me.
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9 minutes ago, DeluxeStang said:
Whereas Ford is leaning into passion and heritage, which is a lot harder to compete with. I'm stunned more people can't see this.
Because people are more concerned about saving a buck then image
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8 minutes ago, bzcat said:
Mercury Tracer to Canada in the 1980s.
Ooh I forgot that the Tracer moved to the 323/Laser Platform in the late 1980s-remembered the second gen one
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1 hour ago, blazerdude20 said:
If they really “want to help” the everyday user, then I’d suggest eliminating the CAFE credit for auto start-stop. Lots of extra wear and tear for minimal, if any, real world gain in fuel economy.
I dunno about the wear and tear thing with stop-start, you'd think that hear more about starters failing then you do since that was implemented. It became wide spread about 12 years back and has been around since the 1980s.
Personally I get about 20 MPG out of my Bronco, which the best mileage I've gotten out of any of my cars, save the Fusion hybrid (which was an unexpected purchase I only put 3K on) and my old Escort GT. Stop Start I'm sure helps with that.
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1 hour ago, rmc523 said:
But the third addition to the property is the most notable part of the plan, as involves the construction of an electric vehicle charging station. The station is projected to cover about 12,000 square feet, due to the canopy that will cover 16 charging units and a substation.
So reading comments-how are the vehicles built on the production line get charged? So if the plant is making 60 units an hour, even if those charging units had 2 or even 4 ports to charge from, that doesn't sound like that would be enough to charge then to say 50% or so for transport?
The Ford Authority article claims its going to be an EV Ranger Pickup LOL
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Full-size SUVs and light-duty pickups are coming to Orion, which was being retooled to build electric trucks before market demand waned. The gas-powered Equinox compact SUV is slated for Fairfax, Kansas. And the gas-powered Blazer, controversial when it was launched at a GM plant in Mexico, will be produced in Spring Hill, Tennessee, the sources confirmed.
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We’re going to experiment with the brand=we have no idea what to do so we are going to throw shit against the wall and see what sticks instead of just shuttering the brand.
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The exterior is awful on that. The interior isn’t bad.
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It’s just not Ford-Honda is stopping selling the Civic type R in the EU.
https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a64984345/honda-civic-type-r-sales-end-europe/
Looks like emissions standards are the issue.
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7 hours ago, Biker16 said:
I don't think it's unfair, but I agree There are Simpler ways to like $2 a gallon Federal gas tax, that would be much simnpler.No it wouldn't, no politician is going do that because they'll never get voted in or they'll get voted out in the next election.
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3 minutes ago, GearheadGrrrl said:
EVs will have to prove their worth to earn mass adoption- The current generation are throwaways with an inadequate charging network and often have no GHG reduction advantage over IC vehicles running on renewable fuels.
Except that there isn't a cost effective renewable fuel available that would cut GHG either...and wouldn't be as scalable as dino oil either.
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https://fortune.com/2025/06/08/byd-ev-industry-competition-price-cuts-weak-demand-overcapacity/
QuoteChinese authorities are trying to minimize the fallout, chiding the sector for “rat race competition” and summoning heads of major brands to Beijing last week. Yet previous attempts to intervene have had little success. For the short term at least, investors are betting few automakers will escape unscathed: BYD, arguably the biggest winner from industry consolidation, has lost $21.5 billion in market value since its shares peaked in late May.
“What you’re seeing in China is disturbing, because there’s a lack of demand and extreme price cutting,” said John Murphy, a senior automotive analyst at Bank of America Corp. Eventually there will be “massive consolidation” to soak up the excess capacity, Murphy said.
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44 minutes ago, Biker16 said:
I don't know, the FUD around EVs killing the grid has met the Reality that AI is killing the grid and spiking electrical rates, all over the country.The lessons from China is that Hybrids are not cheaper to build than EVs. The current Political climate is as Anti hybrid as its Anti EV, combined with low fuel prices, is likely to stall growth in either hybrids and EVs. I feel that the advantage of EVs is that they offer a path towards energy independence that PHEVs don't.
The unfortunate fact is that you can't force people to buy something they don't trust or "want"
Unless they figure out a way to market EVs to appeal to people and remove most of the preconceived notions people have about them, its going to be a struggle to sell them or even make money off them.
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1 hour ago, Rick73 said:
Somehow it’s wrong to install a 7.3 Godzilla in an F-150 but it’s OK to circumvent the green movement by buying an F-250 instead, and drive it exactly the same while wasting even more gas due to added truck weight. Some people don’t care and understand the government’s logic, and others find it infuriating.
The government sets the rules as to how this is all supposed to work-and the F-250 is a significantly bigger/heavier vehicle and costs more then the F-150
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The department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in writing its rule last year under Biden, had "assumed significant numbers of EVs would continue to be produced regardless of the standards set by the agency, in turn increasing the level of standards that could be considered maximum feasible," it said Friday.
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Cost cutting since its a lame duck model and they don't want to spend the $$ to meet the CARB regs for 2026, even though the Bronco Sport and Maverick meet it.