Because it's not very good lol. Even our best renderings are just Lincoln grilles on boxy SUVs. The issue with AI is it can't replicate that spark, that creativity, that new design that human designers can. All it can do is pull from a pre-existing same of designs. I asked it to render me a muscle car done in the Italian design style, and it just gave me a mustang with a Maserati badge.    I see AI being really useful for right ideation and communicating a basic idea. I can see a world where like the film industry uses AI to outline a film as an evolution of the storyboarding processes they currently use, and other things like that. But it's not good at producing quality end of line creations.    I see manufacturing and engineering being replaced by AI moreso than design. There's a startup, and their name eludes me, it's called like Cziengler or something. They used AI to engineer a lot of the chassis components on their supercar giving it parameters for weight, stiffness, and cost, and it quickly created an effective suspension design that meets all that criteria. 

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.