Biker16

Farley is a marketing Guy through and through. No one should believe that the only way to deliver new products is to cancel existing products. This seems exclusive to Ford.

Not trying to be political, but I'd implore you to look deeper into this. What is good for Ford isn't always good for Americans. What is the K-shaped economy, where the rich are getting richer and the poor are struggling? | Fortune

I'm worried Ford will make this a van with a Maverick's nose. I'd buy an IDbuzz, if it were cheaper, or had a bigger battery, or a PV5 if its ever sold here.

This is the new Ecomony it seems. The K-shaped economy reigned in 2025. It’s not going away in 2026 | CNN Business

GM launched a number of new EVs in 2025, with overall EV sales up 48% to 169,887 compared with Ford EV Sales down 14% to 84,113 https://electrek.co/2026/01/06/gm-sold-twice-as-many-evs-as-ford-2025/

It would be good to see Ford offer a hybrid with E-AWD as Toyota does. I wonder if there is a market for Low cost Mild hybrid option.

One of my dream projects is doing CMAX PHEV swap into my Transit Connect. I don't know when I would have time to do it, and when I did, would a pure EV conversion make more sense?

Sony Honda Mobility World-Premieres AFEELA Prototype 2026 at CES

I think that was expected.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/china-is-banning-tesla-style-retractable-door-handles-over-safety-concerns

/Chinese auto giant Geely to announce entry into US EV market within 2-3 years

I like this video, the Creator goes on and on about how Volkswagen learned from the feedback it received from their earlier models and addressed those issues with this vehicle. Starting with buttons, enhanced driving Dynamics, other things. The message for Ford is to stop giving up on products after bad press, perseverance is an enduring quality in people and automakers. It's okay to make mistakes and mess up, the key is how you atone for those mistakes and what you learn to put into new products

This is the thing. If Ford maintained a 3-year refresh in a 5-year redesign product cadence, as they do for the F-150. Would the Escape be as unlikable? Think about it: it takes 36 to 48 months to design a new vehicle; the Escape has been on the market for 7 years. The announcement of its discontinuation occurred roughly in year 5 of its product cycle. That means Ford, at year two or three of the Escape, decided it wasn't going to get redesigned. If Ford had maintained a product, Cadence for the Escape at Toyota, we would have had a vehicle with styling that better matched the buyer's expectations. I don't like being negative about this. I know it's a surprise, but if you don't update your products, you can't blame your products for not being successful. The neglect drives sales declines, not an intrinsic failure of a nameplate, factory, or workers; it is the neglect that kills the product. I'll believe Ford is on the right path if they can get the basics of maintaining their products right. And not base their neglect on the level of effort required to keep that product.

https://www.autoblog.com/news/china-is-putting-a-hard-limit-on-how-much-energy-evs-can-use

I'll bet you $1000 that those plans will change. My frustration, as many know, is the pattern of committing to something, decommitting, and committing to something else. Over and over again. So much so that the products that are planned to arrive 4 years from now. Never get there because the plans change. And four continues to invest in things. Cancel it only to invest in something else, and then cancel that. The example is that Honda didn't discontinue the CR-V while it rolled out an all-new EV platform. They were able to build existing products in the plants that are being converted to build EVS without discontinuing the existing product. It doesn't seem that difficult for them. Why is it so difficult for Ford?