Motorpsychology

My neighbor has an EV 6. She's had it a little over a year, and while she enjoys the car overall, she has had the inverter fail twice in that time; currently in the shop. No warning, just no 12v power. The first time it was in the shop for over a month.

I had to look up "marquetry" as that word is out of my Ikea vocabulary. marquetry noun mar·que·try ˈmär-kə-trē variants or less commonly marqueterie : decorative work in which elaborate patterns are formed by the insertion of pieces of material (such as wood, shell, or ivory) into a wood veneer that is then applied to a surface (as of a piece of furniture)

I think if a CUV was built off of the Maverick, it would be just a narrower, fwd/awd unibody Explorer. We had a 2015 Flex SEL; one of Ford's all time best values for the money. At lease end, we bought a 2018 Escape because we felt we didn't need that much room, regret that now. the Escape has a choppy ride and sub par ergonomics compared to our '09 Mariner IMO, and not much better fuel economy than our 3.8l Flex did. We bought an Explorer to replace the Mariner, but definitely would have bought a Flex or maybe Tourneo if they were offered. CD6 is good bones.

Ford doesn't need to lengthen the powertrain warranty; there are enough recalls, and recalls for the recalls to keep their trucks fresh.

Dunno, my Ranger and Explorer manage to have a simple, intuitive right hand wiper stalk, and the gear shifter (dial on Explorer) and 4wd (Ranger) or drive mode (Explorer) along with two generous cup holders in or on the center console. The driver can control the wiper's functions using only finger movements while keeping both hands on the wheel. Not a fan of the endlessly rotating shifter dial, BTW. Give me a proper shift lever or dashboard pushbuttons like my '63 Plymouth had. The pushbuttons were mounted high on the dashboard which made them easier to use without having to look down.

What would help is if the mfr's would offer colorways again. It could still be hard plastic but at least it wouldn't be black. The other thing that is a letdown for me anyway is, often when beige/tan/bone is offered, it's just the seats, all the rest of the interior is still black.

Android and Car Play, along with Sirius/XM could be offered as an optional package (Premium Screen Package?). Sync3 would also hold down costs and complexity- Ford Digital Experience and associated hardware is extravagant and more costly to install. Basically offer MY 2009-level equipment. Except for 6 CD changers.

now, if they would price the 4dr hard roofs lower than the softops...

I think Chrysler Corp was first to introduce a 5yr/50K powertrain warranty across the board in the 60's. Toyota followed soon after with what is now the industry standard 5yr/60K mi powertrain warranty. As @morgan20 alludes to, it's a nice talking point, but won't result in much of an increase in sales. I think MSRP reduction is what is needed. Offer a model and/or trim level without all the tech: no Blue Cruise, lane keeping or proximity cruise control, BLIS, 360 cameras, etc. This also would lower insurance premiums. I'm guessing there would be enough demand in the used car market to keep the resale residual percentages viable at trade in.

Search for the Lobo page. Mexico divides F150 into two categories,Fleet/Commercial which are similar to our fleet and Lobo, which includes similar trims to what we have here.

The photos show it as a SuperCrew, 22's are part of the Lobo package. Lobo is the non-fleet F150, premium collection in Mexico; What would Ford call the Lobo in that market?

That's what my 650 cc motorcycle gets for milage.

Born 90 years too late.

As an upside, I get gasoline, hot water, hot meals, and home heating in return for the money I give them. I think that until we can engineer near eternal battery design such as nano diamond technology (theoretical life of 26,000 years), solar won't be the Final Answer. The other shoe to drop is devising a practical, fair and simple way to tax energy for vehicle use and/or BEV, PHEV, EREV H2EV's etc themselves; roads will always need to be updated and fixed, and at some point, federal and state fossil fuel taxes aren't going to be enough.

It doesn't look like a final draft to me- too rendered looking, especially the cartoonish photoshop smashup of the one on the mud road. I think the pics were leaked to gauge styling direction from enthusiast site visitors. Toyota is trying to hang on to some of the design elements of the original FJ which itself was no looker, IMO. Early studies of the Bronco were not what we have today, either.