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I'm and old guy but value your perspective as a younger guy. Glad you're here.

A Maverick Raptor? 😁

Some dealerships are not the best. Mine treats me very fair and the service department takes great care of me. My experience with my dealership is it’s a two way street. Treat them with respect and they take good care of the customer. Come in angry and with an attitude and it’s going to be a poor experience.

I sure hope T6 engineering remains. The Aussie's have done an amazing job with the current gen Ranger. Can't wait to get mine in April.

I gotta admit, that green Mondeo rendering struck a cord with me. It looks fantastic! I would drive it.

Given ExploreDude's post, CD6 is going to see more utilization.

I was sometimes a rebel. My parents and maternal grandfather were diehard Buick loyalists. My dad was not bashful in letting me know he did not approve of my Pinto Wagon purchase. And I didn't make any points with him when he bought a Chevy S-10 and I told him be bought the wrong truck. Oh boy!

Ford tops the loyalty rankings: https://fordauthority.com/2026/03/ford-loyalty-topped-all-other-mainstream-automakers-in-2025/?utm_source=fordauthority.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=ford-authority-daily-digest-for-march-2-2026&_bhlid=a4f216e9ec902c6379289507c456631be9719e3a While there is plenty of ragging on Ford here in the Blue Oval Forums, most of us are Ford enthusiasts and bleed blue. Might be interesting if we tell some stories of why we are Ford loyalists. For me, it is primarily two things. First, I greatly admired the company for not taking a government bailout during the great recession. Second, I love the long Ford history and the enduring Ford family connection with the company that exists to this day. My first car was a 1975 orange Pinto station wagon. It was my college car and wish I still had it. Lots of memories. After several more Fords, I then foolishly strayed and tried some GM/Chrysler products but ultimately came back and have remained in the Ford camp. No plans to leave at this point and I'll still love the company even if they don't build a hybrid Ranger for me.

They already did for the ROW Ranger. Seems like everything is available to plug it into the Bronco and NA Ranger.

With today's auto supply chains much of the hardware and software come from suppliers. Tough job to monitor/control that. The only way to completely control that is vertical integration but even with that there will be problem's. Ford's software engineers can also make mistakes and produce buggy software.

You can't even get this right. There is not a single county in the world where 90% of the billionaires inherited their wealth. This claim is flat out dishonest and you continue to make up this crap as you go. https://www.datapulse.de/en/billionaire-self-made/ In the USA 27% of billionaires inherited their wealth. But that inherited wealth came from their ancestors that created amazing companies. For many of that 27% they continue to invest and grow the family company resulting in more and more jobs. Ford and Walmart are great examples. Their are many others. You are blinded by your jealousy, indoctrination and anger.

Unfortunately, many advocates of wealth taxes fully understand the dire economic consequences that will result. But they don't care. It is all about how unfair the situation is and these high wealth individuals must be penalized and their wealth redistributed to others.

What is happening in California is not an income tax. It is called a wealth tax but what it really is simply wealth confiscation (theft). Entrepreneurs that become fabulously wealthy by building amazing companies are not stealing from you or anyone else. They are creating new wealth, making the economic pie bigger, and creating hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs. We need a lot more of these amazing people. You are fixated on how unfair it is and believe these billionaires are the source of your woes. I don't know what to tell you other than to go out there, work your tail off and build an amazing company like most of these billionaires did. But be forewarned, these guys work 24/7, are incredibly driven, skipped having traditional personal lives and have no work-life balance. Very few people are willing to do that.

For me, that’s where it starts to get worrisome when an individual or regulatory entity starts deciding how much wealth I can or cannot have. That’s happening in California right now and they are chasing out the geese that lay mountains of golden eggs.

You guys are ruthless.