Wow that is pretty lame 

Funny thing-after my experience with getting my Bronco, my dealerships service department is 1st rate-they even still pick my Bronco up for service, even though I'm about 5 miles out of their radius. 

The service department is what's pushing me away from my current dealership as well.  We've bought 9 new (1 used) vehicles from them, my MIL has bought 3, and my parents have bought countless.  My nephew was a salesman there and left over a year ago.  Now he sells GMC/Cadillac, otherwise I would buy from him, but we're likely taking our business to a dealership that's an hour away vs. the current one that is 30 minutes away, and within walking distance of my wife's office.

I've actually said in the past that the current escape looks a bit like a Porsche 😂. Especially from the side. Here's the two side by side so you can see what I'm talking about in terms of the shape of the greenhouse and general surfacing.   

Hasn't @DeluxeStang been saying they should've made the Escape more like the Macan?  Looks like they did!

He just tripled his service expenses 

Most of the time the vehicle choices that people made in North America where not compatible with other countries needs/wants.    The Japanese and VW did well because of timing with the gas shocks in the 1970s and the Big 3 getting stagnant because of the lack of competition.    Only in the past 25 years or so have markets a lined size wise for the EU and NA markets at least. The Contour/Mondeo doesn't count because it IMO it was too small for our market and Ford didn't get the midsize/full sized sedan in the NA market straight till the Fusion and 500 hit the market about 20 years ago. The Taurus was too big and the Contour was too small.  

Gen Z'ers have their collective heads in their rectum. The salesperson I dealt with when I bought my 2023 Explorer was a retired guy that was easy to deal with and not pushy at all...their service department is what pushed me away.....If I could get him to move to the dealership I currently am buying from, I would in a second. Younger salespeople tend to be more aggressive and adhere to the maxim, "Call them until they either buy or die". Hard no for me. 

That is true.  My local dealership moved our saleslady to a delivery specialist (she isn't far from retirement), to handle educating customers, and hired a few new people, but they all give me that used car sales person vibe.

That's what I said?  That I'm sure they're talking to potential buyers.....     I'm still finding it hard to rectify the roll cage from Bronco, though, and make it meet "Lincoln" standards by just throwing a different (presumably permanent) top on.  That's why I threw out the redone Everest idea - not a rebadge, a complete rebody/redo starting from a more traditional SUV body to avoid the aforementioned issues.     I don't mind the look of the rear end.  Don't like the front, and this is also way too directly a copy/pasted Bronco.  If that's all they do, the product will fail.     It's hard to say regarding CD6, because I do remember Fields wanted a Ford/Lincoln sedan on it too.....so one has to wonder how much work was done on that before it was paused.