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Agreed. It would be foolish to throw it away now.

I think that’s a given.

Because they hired a lot of outside talent from Tesla, Luckd, Rivian and Apple. These aren’t typical Ford engineers.

But for every potential buyer that wants retro styling there is at least one that wants modern. You can’t please everyone. Personally I love the 930 but I don’t want a modern 911 that looks like that. I would just buy a 930. I feel most retro Mustang fans would do the same. The one area I agree with is making enough changes to keep repeat buyers, especially lease customers. Bit that doesn’t mean wholesale changes.

Three reasons - Price, Price and a continued market shift away from coupes. Current design is not bad enough to turn away serious buyers especially with almost no competition.

I don’t think Ford needs to be overly concerned about specific competitors. They need to focus on keeping costs as low as possible with appealing designs similar to what they did with Maverick and Bronco Sport. What works for one company may not work as well for another due to differences in infrastructure costs, intellectual property, factory capacity and market appeal. I’m ok with skunkworks taking longer IF the end result is as good as Ford has touted in cost, design and performance. If it ends up just being average in any of those areas it will be a swing and a miss - again.

Meanwhile in Germany…….

My guess is it’s more of not wanting to commit the people resources to make it happen, at least not yet. With the factory opening up and EVs pulling back that might change.

Add super duty to F150 and it’s probably #3. Quite a feat considering ATPs of $60k+.

From the 2026 order guide

Power Shade is included.

Oh wow you’re right. I totally misread it. I agree that makes no sense not to have the front part open. Very strange. Maybe it’s a typo?

It still opens like a regular moonroof it’s just not as huge as the BAMR.

Maybe try reading next time….

Because the factory is at capacity and Ford has chosen not to expand production until last year when they decided to add SD to Oakville. Adding a factory is a lot of overhead if you can’t run it for at least two shifts. GM is much better at having sufficient factory capacity. Ford tries to squeak by with the bare minimum and it hurts them frequently not being able to meet demand.