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Well, maybe if it’s so nice Ford needs to go forward with the damn product instead of potentially shelving it!

It will be a shame if Ford can’t produce a competitive electric Lincoln. All I have seen is rumors then cancellations. Rivian based Lincoln cancelled, Lincoln Corsair-e cancelled, and now it’s uncertain what Lincoln will even do going forward. This is ridiculous.

It’s installed and I walked around it and took a look. The stairs to access it are chained off with a small chain. I found it interesting that I only seen u759 on the new computers and machinery and no u760. I really hope this delay is for the better. People are worried and upset at the plant.

I’ve also seen a small u759 training cell set up in Body 1 at OAC that is now chained off. I’m sure you know about that.

Where is U760??? What’s going on with the Lincoln version? It seems to be taking ford way longer than two years since these products were announced in 2019. I hope this delay is worth it. 3 years later to release a garbage low selling product will be an ABJECT FAILURE!

At this point anything can happen in regards to this project. I agree that it should’ve just been a new Edge/Nautilus redesign. I suppose Ford is playing the long game as Electric is supposedly the future.

That seems to be the plan, even in my area in the body shops they’ve made structural improvements and have ran electrical conduits. There are huge spools of wiring lying around and the contractors are there business as usual doing prep work.

I agree, they are buying time that’s forsure. Carry on with the retooling and reconstruction of the plant and then take it from there. They’re still working away I seen a big freight helicopter there and it was bringing in structural beams. If ford had no intention to do anything there then it would be pointless to upgrade the site.

I like your assessment and do I ever hope you’re right. I know you read their statement and it seems that they still plan to go all EV at Oakville if it even happens at this point. Edge Nautilus Hybrids are what should’ve been placed there. How many more times are these guys gonna switch up plans? This is ridiculous now. Makes me wonder if building Blueovalcity was even required. Unless something changes it seems like they will have overcapacity problems.

The plan will change multiple times before then. Who knows, maybe by then they’ll just close the plant. I believe those with very low seniority are just gonna quit and move on. I sure as hell won’t be sitting around for that duration of time worrying about Ford. I know I speculate alot but this situation is garbage.

Blueovalcity product launch is 2026, as for us at Oakville there ain’t a damn thing we can do but go into contingency mode.

Basically the same information as the paper we got from Ford directly. This crappy news is all over the place now.

Ya, tell me about it!

According to Ford it’s about improving battery tech. I also hope it’s to improve the looks of that what appears to be a giant Prius under the tarp we all seen.

Yup you misread that bigtime.

We sure did see it coming, still frustrating as hell for everyone at the plant.

Guess Borg was right after all and we got hit with this BS this morning. No more speculation can’t say I’m surprised. I’m really pissed off.

Guess ol’ Borg was right after all

Just letting you know Oakville Assembly will be down til 2027

The commodity Edge Is dead. Were just building a lot because it’s the end of the road.

That certainly isn’t a shocker.

I hope to hear something before we go off in 5 weeks.

I agree, it’s just very frustrating to be honest. You’re not one bit wrong here. I just vent and rant because I really want to know what’s going on.

Unifor is trying to get information from Ford. I went the union meeting prior to this 3 row news of a potential delay broke out and the union said there is an extreme lack of information from this company.