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Don’t forget some immediate decontenting thrown in there.

I saw this earlier today. I’ll be curious to see if anybody follows suit. This has been a successful model for Hyundai/Kia. Contray to what some auto enthusiast think, I think it says that you stand behind your products and you’re not concerned about the need to repair them. I would love it if Ford followed suit from a consumer’s perspective. I think this will help Ram along with the return of the V8. I know a number of people who have Rams, and they have not had any significant problems with them, so the cost of this may not be too bad. it certainly is a selling point when the cost of these vehicles is so high now.

It’s an understandable position, but they are running out of models to carry the water. The current lineup is thin, and about to get thinner.

Yes, it’s troubling especially since they have a number of foreign models that could be released here that, IMO, would do quite well. There has been little to be excited about for quite some time. Most of the announcements have been either cutting or delaying products. It’s not a good look.

Obviously, Ford has more information than I to be making their decisions, but I don’t have a great feeling about any of this. I live in a truck centric market, and there just does not appear to be significant interest in electric trucks. Not that there aren’t any, but they are a few and far between. This observation is anecdotal, of course, but there is little talk about them and virtually no advertisement for them. It seems like Ford is going to proceed with their move to EVs, regardless of what the market is saying, but they will be doing so at their own peril I suppose.

Better looking than the last effort, however i’m not a big fan of the current design language of there front facia in this or the other new Nissans.

It is impressive and the price is incredible. Makes the price of the Mustang GTD and GT look ridiculous.

I suppose you could say it was meant to be rhetorical. The state of American manufacturing is to squeeze every red cent out of everything, which, IMO, resulted in its demise. So the answer would be no, simply making a profit is not acceptable.

Frankly, it’s very likely related to its substantial American manufacturing footprint. My general question related to profit is how much is enough, whether it’s building cars or hammers? As long as you’re making a profit is that acceptable?

I paid $79,000 for a fully loaded BRaptor when it first came out. It skyrocketed after that destroying its value proposition as far as I’m concerned. The same goes for the Wildtrack.

They made a mistake on the Bronco price increases. The Raptor version was particularly egregious. Clearly the change in pricing has helped.

The price of the Mustang is a major hindrance when you are talking about a vehicle that isn’t particularly practical. It doesn’t help the redesign was basically warm over of the previous design.

This is a must if they proceed with this ridiculous plan. These two vehicles are much different than people realize who do not have experience with them. The rear seating/cargo area is very different. I saw this and about fell over. Ford’s lineup is already spartan, and it’s about to become downright sad here in the near future.

Although I typically buy black vehicles, I have to say Ford’s color choices are crap. It’s about as basic as you can get. Adding new and interesting colors could enhance sales. When someone wasn’t planning to buy something but an interesting color pops up, they might consider it. They also need some more non-metallic options. There are a lot of people that like flat colors.

WTF were they thinking with this design! Toyota designs have improved a bit from my perspective, but this one is awful.