Ford’s Electric Explorer Fixes Two Of Its Biggest Early Weaknesses      

Escort raptor GTD RS Power boost... Dark horse. 

Ford Escort Raptor ST?   

https://www.chasingcars.com.au/news/future-cars/ford-wants-to-build-raptor-t1-supercar-declaring-off-roaders-have-overtaken-mustang-and-hot-hatches-as-its-most-important-performance-vehicles/   Another article on this. I am curious to see what sort of product Farley is envisioning here when he talks about making an affordable aspirational enthusiast product that blends on and off-road performance in a way no-one has seen before. That kinda sounds like a mustang raptor, but I don't envision the mustang raptor as being a super affordable product. Whatever it is, it sounds intriguing.    Other notes include the importance of keeping mustang alive, and their off-road supercar, which he says will "break all the rules" and they're working on figuring out the details right now, like what silhouette it'll have. I'm hopeful Ford's partnered with Hameedi Venturo on it, I've mentioned why I think there's a chance of that being the case in the past. If they are partnered with HV, this thing is gonna be awesome.    A ground up super/hypercar with a hypercar silhouette with suspension tech that allows for substantial ride height variations sounds promising. 

https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/2027-super-duty-answers-customer-requests

They have talked about doing that off-road supercar with potential raptor branding. I could also see maybe a super duty, bronco sport, or mustang raptor depending on how far they want to take it. 

A Raptor Transit??  

Very true, we had a handful of extremely passionate Sport/ST buyers. Even did some simple custom graphics for one of our Edge ST buyers, he loved the logo and wanted it on his windshield, so we made him a couple vinyls of the ST logo. Edge definitely needed a hybrid, and even a slightly de-tuned 2.7 for the high Titanium packages as an available would have been nice. The things that could have been...

F-650 Raptor?

But the industry data doesn't support that theory.   A lot of people are also trading up to a Maverick from a small car.  Yes some are downsizing but large truck sales aren't going down so just as many are also trading up.   You're not wrong that some are doing that, just not enough to say it's an industry trend