I think you meant to say 20 years older unless you're 10 lol. But yeah, I see where you're coming from. 

The Federal Tax credit for EVs is dead as of yesterday, so should be interesting how that all shakes out. 

Number of vehicles affected: 171

The V6 is being driven by CAFE IMO. But who knows how that is gonna work out.   Plus wasn't their rumors of the Explorer getting an EREV setup? I'm wondering if that is why the Bronco and Ranger haven't been marked to get PHEVs in the next 2-3 years-they might all share a EREV setup instead? 

Uh it depends? The Explorer EOL isn't till middle of next decade and well they do sell a decent amount of PIUs to keep Chicago busy.    The other thing is that apparently it is going to get another major update in a few years, so it might be short term thing (36 months or so) why some options might be getting dropped because of that major refresh that is coming. 

While I'm about 20 years younger then you, I wouldn't mind seeing a good modern take on the post 1986 Mustang GT...sans the cheese grater tail lights, which can stay in the in 1980s.    I really hated the New Edge Mustang-I had a 1998 Mustang GT which most likely didn't help, but my issue was that it was done on the cheap and it just didn't look that good. The Focus, Contour and Cougar (esp the Cougar) was best looking products of that generation. The first gen SN95 had a good retro vibe while being in the post jellybean era of Ford. The 2005 Mustang nailed the retro thing, but it fell out of favor within a few years. 

So it could be somewhat close in appearance to something like this in coupe form with a lower, more rounded off front end? I don't hate it, but it kinda kills the muscle car look. 

Thats 2 more than I’ve seen, and I live in the land of a-plan

Sometimes it has a to be spelled out because a lot of folks still don’t understand this “Ford logic” progressively eliminating the V6 from Explorer, then call it a commodity vehicle like the old Crown Vic.

Agreed.  It would be foolish to throw it away now.