I looked at it the other way.....sure it's cool what it can do, but some of them are sad looking lol.

Sorry, should've clarified.....I only have the Bronco now.   I sold my Flex privately in January of 2022 with 150-something thousand miles on it.  I had reserved/ordered the Bronco and its delivery was on the horizon, so I took advantage of elevated car pricing at the time and got like $7,800 or something like that......I felt that was pretty good for a 13 year old vehicle!   I then traded the Mustang in on the Bronco when I got it in March of '22.  It wasn't paid off, so it wasn't worth keeping to have 2 car payments like that by myself at the time.  I miss its lovely noises though haha.

No comment on these designs, but I wonder why OEM's even bother to have a design studio?  All you have to do is have AI design a vehicle.  Some of these renderings are pretty good.

I think this has become a hidden profit center for Ford and is excessive. It certainly didn’t cost $1700 to ship our Explorer that we recently got from Chicago to our dealer. I understand they are average costing it for CONUS, but even privately shipping a vehicle doesn’t cost that much. Another way to lower the MSRP without actually lowering it. 

ChatGPT when I asked it to create a Lincoln version of a Ford Everest...     Interior...

Here are a couple I did as well.  Not saying I like them, just what I was able to get out of it. lol   Notice the incorrect spelling of Lincoln on each of them.  

I was sometimes a rebel. My parents and maternal grandfather were diehard Buick loyalists. My dad was not bashful in letting me know he did not approve of my Pinto Wagon purchase. And I didn't make any points with him when he bought a Chevy S-10 and I told him be bought the wrong truck. Oh boy!

Thanks! The correct price increase was from $2.99. Original post has been corrected.

I saw that yesterday. It makes sense for them. It’s not their core market, and it takes a lot to build a vehicle from scratch.

I had some time to kill so I thought I would throw some more concepts out there for discussion.  These were done with Grok. I would have like to refine them a little bit more, but when it got down to the finer details, it wasn’t very responsive, or did not interpret my commands the way I would have liked.     This last pic was from ChatGPT.  It isn’t what I had in mind for this vehicle but I still thought it looked nice and included it anyway.