Captainp4

That could be mistaken for a next gen Escape/Kuga if you squint and tilt your head a little to the left

We liked our '17 MKC with the 2.3 (I think it was the 2.3, maybe 2.0, either way it was pretty quick for a 'boring' car), sold it to get into a new Model Y before the tax credited ended last year.. but was still holding up well with around 100k miles on it.

I have 3 73-79 trucks and 3 80-96 trucks parked in my driveway, I'm struggling to see where downsizing happened? The dentside cabs feel smaller than the obs ones to me. I know they got lighter, but smaller?

That color is awesome. Agreed with everyone else about the blackout on the tailgate.

I mean, if they stop building junk, there won't be as many things to fix so they can get to them quicker

We're in MD and the Tesla superchargers haven't been a problem at all with our new Model Y. Haven't gone farther than southern VA in it yet, but based on all the videos of cross country drives with zero intervention FSD use.. I don't think it's as big an issue as it's made out to be unless you live in the middle of nowhere. Plugging it in at home and having a full 'tank' in the morning is as simple as it gets too, it even tells you on your phone if you forget to plug it in. People that say it won't work for them because of whatever reason just haven't tried it, imo. I know some people live in dead zones still, but not many.

I wonder if they'll go to 48v architecture as well? I remember Tesla claiming the 12v motors couldn't move fast enough on their steering (or maybe they had to be extra big/heavy to handle it... something like that. It came across as one of the main drivers for the switch to 48v)

Ford Ka

I'm having that problem where you see a picture one way and you can't unsee it lol, I can't make it work the way you're saying in my brain. Hopefully we get some more pics of this thing soon.

I could be wrong, but I'm seeing it without the front casting. Green=firewall, blue=bottom of windshield, red=a pillar, yellow=door.

I think Giga Shanghai did 800-900k the last couple of years.

I'd agree if BlueCruise was anywhere in the same realm of capability, but quite frankly they shouldn't have confidence in it. I can put my seatbelt on, tell Grok where I want to go, push the start button and not touch the pedals or steering wheel from my driveway to a parking spot at the destination. Can also just tell it I need to use the bathroom and it'll find me one, or hey I want some lunch, want an energy drink, etc and it just takes you there. Latest FSD is mind blowingly good, not just some hands free highway driving. I'll agree Ford probably would've had a tough time integrating with their inefficiencies in wiring and compute up until now, but sounds like this CE1 platform is taking a lot of cues from how Tesla does it. I believe Mercedes is using the nVidia system, coming as soon as this year. I don't have much confidence in Ford coming up with their own vision based AI self driving system or anything more than driver assist, but great if they can pull it off.. if not hopefully they can work with nVidia or Tesla.

Maybe, but we're in a model Y with FSD (coming out of an MKC) because Ford didn't have anything close. I think a Lincoln licensing FSD or even going with the new nVidia end to end driving software would be a compelling option. But if they just want to keep chasing a dying customer base with minimal effort and expense I guess we can't expect much more than what we see. I'm cool with them pivoting to performance with some ICE stuff too, though I don't think it really makes sense for the brand, but I'd be happy to see some kind of direction. I know I'm all over the place on this comment, but it's kind of like "Do SOMETHING, even if it's wrong" for me at this point.

I was thinking of Slate reading your first post, still not convinced the cheap people clamoring for something like that will buy it, personally think they'll come up with another excuse... but could be interesting to see Ford's take on a cheap customize it yourself truck.

Don't understand why they didn't take the opportunity to make BEV Lincolns with all the latest tech and really differentiate while being able to pull Lincoln prices to offset the battery cost... and fitting right in with the quiet flight/luxury theme, but I guess that ship has sailed (for now anyway). I do like the idea of some variants of mustang/cd6/t6, if ce1 isn't luxury capable or they aren't ready for that yet (still not sure if inexpensive means CHEAP or efficient on that one, though I'm hoping for the latter based on what has been said about design/production)