They won those championships in spite of stronger contenders. I’m not one of these playoff system bad types but the whole single elimination championship thing always bugged me. Glad they went back to a system that rewards more consistency over straight up winning. Seems to me it’s a better balance now 

In other words, they overestimated the demand for the rally and need to get rid of some extra parts 😆. Seriously though, extended range battery standard on all trims is pretty cool.

DHL has some of those in its fleet. Lots of Ford E-Transits too.    

Nice

I'm speaking of Chinese mainline manufactures, who do not have a presence in the US market 

Chinese vehicles, both from U.S. companies like Ford ('27 Lincoln Corsair and Nautilus for example) and from them Chinese automakers, have been sold in the U.S. for years, are still being sold here now, and will continue to be sold here.   What flip flopping are you referring to?

Is NACS port standard for 2027 MME?

Pretty sure the Cup champions from 2024, 2023, 2022 might take exception to that. 🙂 Granted, there's about zero support for the Busch/O'Reilly/2nd tier series.   The 5.4 engine fits the needs of the Aussie Supercar program, I believe. NASCAR runs a bigger V8. There is also the endurance cars, LeMans and such, off road series, etc, etc.   All that said, what's the street reason to bring out a 5.4? No idea. Other places have even weirder emissions restrictions than the US market, so unless it's using more mass to build more power to get emission'd to what we see out of the 5.0, I'm not sure where this engine fits.

If you gave them your email when you ordered and they linked it with the order, you should get an email when it's scheduled.

Hi all,   its been a while since I got.my 2023 explorer and now getting a T350 HD but my dealer is not planning to look for my VIN as they are " to busy" and my salesman is on sick leave.   Anyone have a time frame on production after the order in Priority L1?   It's for my vanlife conversion and planning all the required purchase.   Thanks   Watchdog