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Your dealer should look in Vehicle Visibility and the status why it is being held will be in there.

I mean a battery pack is kinda mid-engine.

Mark Reuss loves the Corvette and has been the champion and driver of resources to the program, the Corvette program will get what it wants as long as he is at the helm of GM. No other program is as important as the Corvette to him (including Full sized SUV's and Pickups) The Corvette to him is GM. Mustang is going to expand in family where some resources went and more electric versions along with ICE will be sold at the same time. I was told there is a number at which when ICE sales fall below a certain amount the ICE plug will be pulled even if it isn't at the end of the scheduled life cycle, Ford also expects there will be a short burst of high content V8 sales after that announcement.

It will debut before that, that is close to the onsale date of it, bigger announcement is April 17, 2024. The Mustang program has seen a lot of changes and budget cuts in it over the past 3 years.

Splash also seems like a natural trim line for the Maverick.

Powertrain is actually bad for crash management, You have to plan out what to do with the engine when in a major impact as it doesn’t really absorb energy so much as just become a rock that drives itself into the passenger compartment. Current design is to push the engine down so it would create leg injury if it actually penetrated the passenger compartment. The rule now is to fold the wheel to use as a block to push the engine toward the center. It spreads the energy across the firewall and gives driver and passenger leg protection. Electric vehicles will do the same thing with the wheels but the whole frontal structure holds up much better and can collapse at a consistent rate as it’s all crumble zone. Mach-e, Lighting, and e-transit show that Ford is focused on great electric vehicles.This truck will change a lot of perceptions of what an electric truck is and will get many buyers to consider them.

Explains why the Bronco Scout name didn’t happen, https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/vw-revive-scout-electric-suv-pickup-us-report-says

I’m not sure 50/50 can happen with battery supply where it is at. The Edge is the new midsized sedan for Ford, the majority if Fusion shoppers will go to Edge before they would go to a smaller or larger SUV. Losing the Edge is going to have an impact on sales, the question is Ford can migrate those buyers to other vehicles or will they go to another brand.

My Raptor was one of the first vehicles that was ever produced with the 6.2L and 0 problems. If my truck was a one off I would say it was just a bad build. Even Wall Street is noticing when Ford has warranty cost 2+ Billion more than GM. That is not counting the people with problems outside of warranty who pay or who have problems that never walk into a Ford showroom again. My coworker who’s daughter had the Escape engine die, now drives a RAV4 Hybrid, his mother retired from Ford. My father has a Maverick on order for his company and his words are if this is as bad as the Lincoln, F250 or my Truck he will be done with them, one or two is a fluke, 4 is something structural to save costs, he retired from Ford and is about done. I’m not saying other brands don’t have problems, but it’s ugly at Ford now. Toss in recall after recall and times are not good in Dearborn.

Well my 2021 f-150 truck has been in the shop for almost a month, parents 2020 Lincoln left my mom stranded at Meijer today because it wouldn’t start, my coworkers daughters 2018 escape engine took a s*** at 71k which they have to pay for and my Dads business partner 2020 f250 is under lemon law and is driving a Ford provided vehicle until his replacement is built There are massive quality issues at Ford right now. There is plenty of people on the 2021 F150 with problems if you read the forums. If this keeps up much longer I’ll be going the lemon route and the proud owner of a Sierra or Tundra. This company needs to stop cost cutting and get quality under control.. My family used to bleed Ford blue with 4 generations that have worked there, but what they make lately is borderline trash in the quality department. My old truck needed an alternator and fluids changed in the almost 12 years I owned it, my new truck has spent more time in the shop in the 9 months I’ve owned it than that did in the whole time.

Familiarity with that line, CN makes me very angry -- family member owns a business that actually backed up to it. Actually that is why the rail trail folks will love it, we can walk to the mall and right though the shopping area, can even bike to downtown Pontiac plus the old part of that line is already a rail trail just north of there - Pollyanna trail, with the old rail line used to go all the way to Lake Huron. It could tie into the Clinton river trail will be the push. CN won't maintain it now, let it turn to trash over the next few year then get state/fed money if GM wants it open again to reactivate it (Save in maintenance costs) Or just file to abandon it and the county will buy it and they will get 5-10million for it.

I'd be surprised if that happens, probably be turned into a rail trail. PSR is the slow downfall of railroading nationwide, CN's (and all of class 1) shit service of late I suspect it will be trucks to inter-modal where they will get loaded. The STB needs to drop some hard hammers and beat the shit out of the admin side of the railroad industry. I'm normally not at all for government intervention but what the class 1 are doing is criminal. Allowing allowing mainlines and spurs to deteriorate and then file for abandonment to the point where no one wants them to keep competition out of the areas. Toss in the very crazy vocal Trail community that wants walking trails and will do everything in their power to outlaw railroads and its the death of railroads in the NA market.

Joseph Antonini and Jack Welch also had Musk tendencies. Overly leveraged the core company, diversified to the point they lost focus what the core business was and why people believed in it.

Starting mid-decade only fully Electric vehicles will qualify for Tax deduction benefits in the EU, If Ford wants to dominate the commercial market they must do this.

Made in Tennessee. https://www.autonews.com/cars-concepts/ford-ceo-jim-farley-new-plant-tennessee-build-another-truck-thats-not-f-150-lightning

Why I said "was", like most commodities the price will shoot up in the short term and then collapse as more comes online. There are known lithium deposits, just need to get those mines up and running which will happen late 2023/2024 time frame as many are in the works.

Not so much taking advantage. More like hey we also have a (super ugly) Electric truck coming!

If not from OEM's the aftermarket will jump at that. "remanufactured battery packs" will be a huge industry.

Get another one like they would now, eventually electric vehicles will become beaters as well. As battery costs fall in line EV's will be cheaper than an equivalent gas model, they are far simpler vehicles. Battery cost parity was forecast around 2024-2026 and post 2028 costs will be less. As for long term profitability and margins for electric; those will resemble the current market once things stabilize in mid to late decade, with so many players the idea of long term 30% margins is impossible. That is the drive for the subscription and reoccurring revenue streams, even some hardware upgrades for existing vehicles will improve profit margins at the company.

Tesla only has 4 vehicles that have a lot of common parts on them. They have fewer suppliers and tighter control on their supply chain than most as they have many things inhouse that other OEM's have shipped out for cost center and production cost reasons. Look at GM, they owned their own chip plant and decided to outsource production of them with the 2 billion dollar cost to update it, now look at where GM would be in the market if they had kept it open. Traditional OEM's have to answer to Wall street over the past 10 years while Tesla has gotten a pass at costs in the name of future profitability.

Hybrid CVTs are completely different, I’ve been in Fusion Uber and Lyfts with well over 300k and one was almost 500k on the original transmission. I was referring to Nissan CVTs which basically total the vehicle when they fail at 125000-150000. Honda and Toyota CVTs don’t seem to fail at the same rate and even when they do are thousands cheaper than for a used one than a Nissan replacement.

If you own one, your mechanic is going to mention it a lot.

4 Series Coupe, A5 Coupe and C-Class coupe are direct competitors to the traditional Mustang in every market outside of the USA. Even in the US I'd would say there is a subset of buyers that compare the higher trim Mustangs to them.

Not sure where you or any household member works but if its at any of these companies you can get an X-plan Pin https://www.oxmoorflm.com/ford-a-x-z-plans/x-plan-partner-companies/

The new system will most likely still be called Sync; Sync has already operated on both Microsoft, and QNX operating systems but the name never changed. Probably be Sync 5