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There was a supposed document showing a next gen mach-e coming in 26/27 with two body styles, the normal mach-e, and a "coupe". Maybe the coupe is the fastback style mach-e we know today, and then there's a mach-e with a more upright roofline to increase practicality. I could see that stealing away some edge customers if it offered comparable interior space. If the next gen mach-e rides on CE1, it could also undercut the current mach-e/edge quite a bit in terms of price. We'll see if that ends up happening.

That massive rear pillar kinda ruins the design, and it makes rear visibility worse. I wonder why they didn't just push the side glass back by another foot or so. It would have looked far more visually balanced, and improved practicality. My guess is designers wanted to be "quirky".

Wait, did some of you guys actually think that was real? Come on boyos, it's April 1st lol. I'll say my personal fav of the articles FA posted was the super duty convertible.

My guess is Ford performance will oversee things like the next gen bronco and mustang from start to finish. So it'll be more substantial.

That's what I thought was gonna happen, but he claims they're permanent for the duration of his term this time around.

https://autodesignmagazine.com/en/2025/02/kemal-curic-new-head-of-design-ford-performance/ This is the guy who penned the 2015-17 s550. He went onto Lincoln where he worked on things like the Aviator and Continental, and served as head of Lincoln design for some time. He seems to be a very talented designer, so between him, and the guy who styled the latest Ford GT having prominent positions in the company, it makes me very optimistic about the design of future Ford performance vehicles. It'll be exciting to see what the future holds.

Holy shit can our country just pick a lane for 5 seconds lol. Tariffs have been on and off again, increased and decreased so many times over the past few months. One day they're 25%, the next they're 50%, the next they don't exist, then the next it's no they're just delayed. This is insane.

I literally facepalmed, talk about a tone deaf politician.

Instead they stuck with Harris which was a hell no candidate. I get it, the original plan was to run Biden again, and they had to scramble last minute to put up another candidate, but still, that was a bonehead move. Most people hated the Biden administration, should have gone with someone else.

Out of curiosity, because the Continental is a unibody, and the cd6 explorer is a unibody, how would you go about doing that? Or if you wanted to take the frame of an older body on frame explorer and slot that under a modern Continental body. I was under the impression that with unibody cars, because the chassis and frame were essentially this combined unit, that you couldn't put the body of a modern car on another chassis like you could back in the day when everything was body on frame where it was a lot easier to pull a frame and a body apart. But if it is possible to do that, that would be quite cool, I didn't even know that was an option. The more you know.

It would have been easier, but a V10 explorer would have been arguably less cool than a sedan.

This thing is wild. One of the most creative builds I've seen in some time.

Next to Tesla and Rivian, Ford is the brand that's gonna come off the best from all of this. I will say, Toyota might be screwed. A brand for value conscious consumers and some of their most popular products like the Tacoma and RAV4 4 are about to get slammed. I could genuinely see this benefiting the ranger quite a bit. It's already closed the gap with Tacoma, it's a better truck by far, it's gradually developing a better reputation for reliability than the Toyota, and now it's gonna be significantly cheaper as well. If I was in the market for a midsized truck, I wouldn't even look at a Tacoma now, ranger all day.

I guess trying to look at the bright side, Ford will come out better than almost any other car brand because they make a significant portion of their cars in the states. Apparently it's not the parts that will be tariffed, but the finished car and where it's from. So if Ford brings engine parts from Canada, but builds a truck in Michigan, it won't be hit by tariffs. I am concerned about maverick and bronco sport through.

At some point, things started becoming a lot more tribalistic, and people started having this mentality where they cared more about their side winning than they did about working together, and doing what was best for the country. We need to get back to that sort of mentality. I firmly believe most conservatives and liberals are sensible people, we just need to break away from. The extremism on both sides, and focus more on quality leadership.