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According to the Stellpower website, Cherokee is supposed to be the same size as the Wagoneer S, which is 192 inches long. 1984 Cherokee was 167 inches long. Cherokee is supposed to be a Wagoneer S with a different front end and powered by a hybrid instead of electric motor.

I wonder if CAFE footprint rules will push the Bronco Sport to Edge size and the regular Bronco to Expedition size. I believe bzcat already said the next generation Maverick will have to be larger, and I wonder if that would make the Ranger redundant.

The New Jeep Compass May Not Come to the US Jeep finally comes clean, admits Brampton and USA Jeep Compass are stalled (updated) – Stellpower – that Mopar news site

Looks better than the K4 sedan.

Except for Enclave, all Buicks are made in China or South Korea.

Trump's legal authority for these tariffs seems questionable. I won't be surprised if the courts overturn them. Of course, U.S. can't continue running $2 trillion budget deficits with a $36 trillion national debt. The tax increases and spending cuts needed to get things under control will cause considerable pain, but hyperinflation would be worse.

To my aging eyes, the Escape is a more physically attractive vehicle then the RAV4 (though many here disagree), but I have confidence a RAV4 would go 200,000 miles with routine maintenance, while an Escape would have a major failure by 80,000 miles.

I believe the Acadia is now on the longer Traverse/Enclave version of the platform.

Car magazines reported in late 90's proposals to replace the Panthers with either a stretched Taurus or moving them to DEW98. Obviously there was no business case to do either, so the cars soldiered on through the 2000's as fleet queens or for cranks who wish they still lived in the 70's. Neither the Ford Five Hundred of 2005 nor the Taurus introduced for the 2010 model year were successful. Well, the Taurus did well the first few years it was out, but sales quickly dwindled as obviously buyers preferred the Explorer using the same platform.

Panther retail sales seemed to decline precipitously after about 2000, and I doubt they were very profitable after 2000. They were very profitable in the 80's after oil prices dropped and during the 90's. Ford originally planned to drop them after 1984 or so, and Ii have a book titled Lincoln Design Heritage by the Farrells with photographs of a proposed FWD Town Car replacement that looked like 1988 Chrysler New Yorker with some elements from the 1990 Town Car. That project was cancelled after oil prices dropped in 1983. By the mid to late 90's, consumers preferred the Explorer to Panthers.

Interestingly, I have read Hal Sperlich proposed the Fox platform be FWD, probably similar to Chrysler's K car platform, which Sperlich developed. Iacocca and HF II overruled him. I imagine late 70's through mid 80's Ford history would have been a lot different had the Fox platform been FWD.

Numerous Toyotas and Hondas have a reputation of going 200,000 miles or more with regular maintenance and no major failures. No Fords, except F series and Panthers, have that reputation. Initial quality awards aren't sufficient. Several service advisors at my local Ford dealer have told me to keep driving my 2010 model because "the new stuff don't (sic) last." The first generation Escape sold well and was reliable, but it also used primarily Mazda components.

Escape looks fine to me. I think its relatively poor sales are due to its poor quality reputation, compared to the RAV4 and CRV, which have a reputation for going hundreds of thousands of miles with routine maintenance.

I have felt for awhile that Ford just needs F Series/Expedition, Ranger/Bronco, Maverick/Bronco Sport, Transit family, TE1, and CE1, and everything else including Mustang and Lincoln is expendable.

Just let the Chrysler brand go the way of Mercury, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile. That segment is dead.