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Recipe for disaster, IMO. They should keep them parallel for another generation, IMO. Mind you, we're also looking at probably a year gap between Escape and whatever this new products are. Plus, hopefully Lincoln is involved in these plans, otherwise it's about to lose 1/4 of its lineup, and higher percentage of sales.

Hopefully they overbuilt and imported a bunch before the tariffs.

My biggest issue with the refresh is that the grill should've tapered inward to be narrower at the bottom - it's too rectangle, IMO.

Eh, that's fair. Recalls seem like a daily occurrence. "From America, for America" Meanwhile, Nautilus standing in the corner.....

Looks good and about as expected. The updated rear end did wonders to make Explorer look different/new, IMO.

Aka making vehicle prices what they should be instead of elevated? This program sounds desperate, IMO.

I'm interested to see how much pull ahead there was with the tariff talk, or if it affects things. It's not clear to anyone, aside from their BS "commodity product" line. They got caught with their pants down without a replacement in the works (after cancelling the CD6 one) and had banked on mega EV sales that didn't materialize. I still think they need to do an emergency accelerated model to replace it. I'm curious what will happen to Bronco sport sales when Escape goes away.....do they increase/absorb Escape sales, or is Ford left with yet another case of decreased volume.

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Gross

Should they change paths again, they'll be stuck with a plant not being used for some time, all while exiting segments.

I was just contemplating a redo of my truck and van charts, adding more competitors and more details, including segment totals. I think last time I looked, Frontier numbers were significantly lower than the rest, hence the "major players" line, but I think I may go ahead and add them so that I can do entire segment totals......guess I could throw Gladiator in there. So my new midsize segment will be Ranger, Colorado, Canyon, Tacoma, Ridgeline, Frontier, and Gladiator....am I missing anything? Full size, I don't think I missed anyone with Titan gone? Same with MD - I'm not interested in anyone but Ford/Chevy there (i.e. no Freighliner, etc). Compact, I'll add Santa Cruz. Over on the EV side, if I can get Cybertruck and R1T figures, I'll add them to EV truck figures. I don't know if Rivian breaks out their van sales, and even so, I'd be on the fence of adding it anyway. I looked into Cybertruck/R1T sales, and officially Tesla only seems to do global deliveries, and also has their figures grouped into "model 3/y" and "other vehicles" instead of breaking it out further into their whole lineup, so it'd be hard to parse that official data. Rivian is similar in only reporting overall brand sales for the quarter........ good car bad car does break out these models, but I'm not sure how they calculate those sales numbers, and they've not put up 2025 data yet - guess I could list them and asterisk the data?

Ok, here are the quarterly truck/van comparisons: Truck comparison: EV details: In the full size segment, Ford had a huge gain over low numbers early last year. Coincidental, I'm sure, but funny that Ram's decline of full size truck sales is almost exactly mirrored by GM's increase. Tundra is there doing its thing. For midsizers, the new Colorado/Canyon are doing well - I think they did a good job with them. Ranger is rebounding after bottoming out last year with the changeover. Tacoma is running away with the segment as usual, after a hiccup last year with their own changeover. Heavy trucks are what they are, and are dependent on fleet purchasing timeline. Maverick with its own segment still....guess I could throw Santa Cruz in there, but meh.... Over on the EV side, Lightning and E-Transit are still the "top" sellers, but Silverado and Sierra EVs are doing well. I don't include Hummer in these figures because they group truck and SUV in one number, plus it's sort of truck adjacent. GM put Brightdrops into Chevy figures now, and made 400/600 a single line item, so that's what I've done too.

They need to take a page out of GM's book and pick a direction with that plant and stick with it.