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That brings up an interesting question. Are the Raptors and Dark Horse eligible for this since they’re excluded from the normal A/X/Z program?

I don’t know, it’s an easy PR win and right now, Ford needs all the good PR they can get.

Dodge did offer a convertible Dakota in the 80s.

Please don’t, I actually want to hear what a real person thinks rather than what the media is spoonfeeding.

I hate today

Exactly. Hyundai just announced a $6B steel mill in Louisiana to support their assembly plants down south.

Stock Market is not representative of the economy at large, only one of myriad indicators and it can be a misleading one at that.

There’s an entire generation of people whom I’ve found by and large are pretty much completely unwilling or incapable of learning anything new. you are right about the battery thing. One of the worst things you can do to a battery is constantly keep it on a charger. It’s why phone batteries aren’t perceived to have the life they did in the before time. Yes phones are infinitely more capable than the old Nokia bricks of the late 90s and early 00s but we as a society were trained to think that phones should be plugged in overnight. I’m guilty of that too. I don’t think that’s something that can be “un-learned” as a society.

That’s another fallacy people are just going to have to get over for mass adoption to speed up. EVs aren’t going to give you the same experience as an ICE powered car, they just aren’t and IMO probably never will. There’s only so much current you can pump into a battery in a set period of time to charge it before it overheats and potentially explodes for one. You’ll never fully be able to close the gap on charge time vs. filling up a gas tank. That’s just physics. I believe It’s going to take at least until the majority of Gen Alpha starts driving for the culture to shift enough for people to come to grips with that.

I think That’s where you’re wrong. A lot of the people on the right, or even center-right don’t have a problem with electric cars. What they have a problem with (and I fall into this category for the most part) is the feeling like they’re being pushed without thought for the long term ramifications on the power infrastructure or the environmental questions on the front end of battery mineral mining that the powers that be refuse to acknowledge. Most of the people I know who question electric cars have zero problem with them and even understand that there is a place in the market for it, just let the market decide when the masses are ready for mass adoption, not the government. They also acknowledge that they’re not for everyone.

I would think new bodysides, new roof, new doors, new rear floor pan and some new reenforcement pieces, mainly in the new b-pillar area. Most of the rest should be common from a body standpoint. Maybe a reworked front and/or rear subframe to accommodate the extra body length and weight.

Oh man I hope not, if for other reason there’s already enough competition in a market that is FLOODED with CUVs. Something different could be great, look at how big of a hit Maverick is.

As long as that weird looking hump in the roof isn’t there. There has to be a better way.

This is my biggest issue as well. There’s literally only 3 things I really considered must-haves when I was looking and to get all 3 I damn near had to get a Lariat. I don’t want blue cruise or any of that self driving stuff. At least give me the option to remove that. One of the myriad reasons I kept my Fusion.

Holy crap, Faraday Future still exists? I thought they died at least 5 years ago.

I would argue they don’t even need to invest in a new hybrid for this, take the PHEV powertrain from the Aviator GT, tune it for a Mustang (with hopefully a boost in power, not just gear ratios) and bingo. Shouldn’t need to break the bank on that.

Make it available with a proper 3-pedal manual and I’ll definitely be interested. Otherwise I’ll keep my Fusion until the wheels fall off.

I would hardly call the last focus a crappy economy car. Aside from the transmission problems, it had a wildly reliable engine and a very good interior and was well optioned. The problem became when the RS came out, it was very hard to justify paying over $40k for it even as well optioned as it was. There’s a reason it was built in Germany and imported, it was too hard to justify the changes needed at MAP to build it here, it was always going to lose money.

Well, no kidding. Not as many want a $500+/mo lease payment as you hoped, eh?

Ford sales are Dismal in Europe and not any better in China. I don’t think they’ll be in either market much longer if the trend keeps up.

I haven’t given this much thought until now. The world knows with Trump in the white house we have at LEAST 4 years of Chinese brand cars being barred from import to the US so why the rush to beat them at their own game?

I killed off Fusion. I guess maybe Flex too but by the time I got mine it was known to be gone.

Like you said a few posts ago, juries are stupid.

They are?

Ford dealers are VERY hit and miss when it comes to customer service, particularly in the service department. I refuse to use the service department at the dealer I buy all my vehicles from because the service advisors are in my opinion… hell I’ll be blunt about it, total assholes. They never answer when I call them and when they do they’re very standoff-ish. They never follow up on anything, there’s never been a time I’ve dropped a car off for service where they’ve called me and told me it was done. I’ve always had to call and check in then they get indignant with me when I ask. There’s another one that charges a ridiculous amount in labor but I was desperate at the time and have never been back since. I switched to a different service department recently and it’s been so much more pleasant plus as an added bonus it’s within walking distance of my house. I’ve never had an experience with a ford sales department where I felt good about any of the experience, regardless of the dealer and I’ve dealt with 4-5 over the years both new and used.