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Looks great, and good price too - I remember when I priced out the Mach E GTs a few years ago that they were like 62k.

They probably know their customer base will push back against it, and have seen sales of other EV models, so it's not a priority....that's my guess.

Details on the plant changeover: Ford Louisville Assembly Details Confirm Plant Retooling For EVs According to the Louisville Courier Journal, Ford submitted plans to the city with specific details about what it intends to do at the site in the near future. The development plan includes three building projects, expected to add 52,000 square feet to the facility. One facet of the plant’s rehabilitation will create six new dock positions and three replacement docks, which will reroute existing roads on the property. Additionally, another 30,000 square feet will add more dock space. 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. Ford Louisville Assembly Plant expansion to make electric vehicles

Ford Exec Says Customers Stopped Caring About Powertrains “I think powertrains — ICE powertrains over time are going to need to consolidate, and they’re not going to be differentiated. I don’t think that consumers really think about powertrains the way they did 30 years ago, where it defined what a vehicle was, the horsepower, the displacement, the torque and everything about the vehicle, I think a lot of that is gone. And so does everybody need to develop the next 4-cylinder and 6- cylinder as that arc comes?” What would a future without Ford powertrains look like? Europe could provide the answer. The VW-based Ford Transit Connect uses Ford EcoBoost and EcoBlue branding throughout its lineup, despite the fact that the powertrains were fully developed by the German automaker. The partnership also enabled Ford to build the Explorer and Capri EVs off the VW MEB platform. Additionally, Ford builds the Ranger-based Amarok pickup and Transit Custom based Transporter for the company, complete with Blue Oval engines and transmissions, so it’s reasonable to assume the company could walk away from producing powertrains for certain vehicle segments in favor of a mixed model.

Here's Why Ford Has Been Issuing Recalls For Incorrect Repairs for the time being, the company’s current woes can be seen in the amount of recalls it has issued for incorrect repairs. But the company didn’t typically issue so many recalls for incorrect repairs until recently. Fortunately, there’s a fairly simple explanation for why that’s been happening. The recent spate of recalls to fix incorrect repairs almost certainly relates to the consent order the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration secured with Ford in November 2024. As part of the agreement, Ford agreed to a civil penalty of $165 million after the agency found that the automaker did not recall vehicles with defective rearview cameras in a satisfactory manner and also violated the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act by failing to provide accurate and complete recall information in accordance with the law. All of this builds to the key portion of the consent order. As part of the agreement, Ford is required to review every recall issued over the last three years (dating back to November 2021) to ensure they’ve been properly handled and to issue a new recall if necessary. This is likely why certain 2021 Ford F-150 pickups were recalled to fix an incorrect repair – the company now has better systems in place to identify when issues with recalls aren’t being properly addressed. The consent order is likely the reason why Ford has issued so many recalls in 2025 too. As of this writing, the automaker has issued a staggering 69 recalls in the United States – far above Volkswagen’s runner up position of 15 recalls. Once again, the consent order is likely responsible for this phenomenon, as it requires Ford to revamp its recall decision-making process in a comprehensive manner. That includes increasing the speed of its recalls. The consent order remains in effect until November 2027, with NHTSA reserving the right to extend it through 2028.

Until more competition appears, and Ford decides to give up on the segment again 😛

Agreed. This is a "tried too hard" to copy the old look.

Pretty much! Revamped Pacifica minivan (can't tell if it's a refresh or new), some sort of mid/large SUV, and sounds like a sort of sedan-ish product. We'll see what happens!

Ford Is No Longer America's Number 2 EV Brand - Autoblog General Motors has released key sales highlights for its vehicles through May 2025, with the biggest piece of news being that Chevrolet has surpassed Ford to become the number two EV brand in the United States. After the first quarter, GM reported that Chevrolet was the fastest-growing EV brand in the country. Now, with 37,000 EVs sold from the start of the year until the end of May, Chevy has officially surpassed Ford. The Blue Oval registered 34,000 EV sales over the same period, but saw a drop in EV sales in May.

Move Over Cadillac, There’s A New Contender For America’s Most Luxurious EV | Carscoops Dacora was coy on launch details, but said each vehicle will be handcrafted at their 100-acre Hudson Valley Garage campus in New York. k. Pricing starts at $500,000, with reservations now open for a refundable deposit of $50,000. That’s significantly more than the aforementioned Celestiq, which starts from around $340,000 before you even touch the options list. Still, Dacora claims to have “reservations already exceeding 150% of its planned first-year production capacity.” However, they didn’t mention numbers and the lack of information isn’t very reassuring. File this under "believe it when I see it".....

Stellantis Will 'Experiment' With Chrysler to Fill The Gaps In an interview with Automotive News, Stellantis design chief Ralph Gilles said Chrysler is “ripe for a new chapter.” The brand aims to revamp its current image and attract a new clientele by targeting the “brand-new conquest customer.” Although Stellantis has numerous products across its vast portfolio, there are still gaps that Chrysler will attempt to fill with its upcoming vehicles. Well, adding any sort of product will increase sales from the non-minivan volume of 0 lol

I understand that. That doesn't mean it looks good..... I have the same opinion of the Stroppe edition Bronco - I understand what they were going for, and the inspiration, but it still looks like several mis-matched panels (specifically tailgate/hood).

I like the color (remember seeing spy shots of it), but the white wheels are horrible and the white grille inserts look tacked on/out of place.

This also presumably answers the question of the long-term status of the (stupid) Ford/VW tie-up, which I assume will disappear as these products phase in, and the VW-made ones phase out.

Rivian R2 'Will Underpin All Future EV Projects' At Volkswagen Not only will the Volkswagen Group have access to a shared software platform to help close the Cariad-shaped gap in its vehicles, but it turns out that the platform that underpins Rivian's upcoming SUV will actually become the official digital brain of all future Volkswagen-branded EVs. Everything Volkswagen touches in the EV space will now be humming along on the same platform and tech stack that will be used as the building blocks for the highly anticipated Rivian R2. That news comes straight from Rivian's Chief Software Officer, Wassym Bensaid. In an interview with Yahoo Finance, Bensaid noted that the R2's modular platform is set to be the secret sauce that makes up every single Volkswagen EV in the foreseeable future. Yes, you read that right—the R2's DNA will be in not just one future product, but all of Volkswagen's new battery-powered models moving forward. That all starts with the upcoming affordable VW Every1 (which will have a new name by the time it releases), which will use an off-the-shelf version of the zonal architecture, and then trickle into newly-released models thereafter. Here's what Bensaid revealed: Notice the last bit of Bensaid's quote. He mentioned that "each of the brands" will have the ability to "express their own identity." Reading between the lines, that tells us that it's not just the VW brand that will have access to the R2's underpinnings. Audi? Check. Porsche? Also check. Don't forget newcomer Scout, plus Lamborghini, Skoda, Seat and all of the others under the VW group umbrella. We already knew that these brands would have access to the software joint venture, but Bensaid's reveal confirms that all brands under the portfolio will be able to have access to the R2 platform and tech stack. Here's another snippet from the interview that explains it further: More at the link above. Definitely interesting news.