I don't think its lincoln specific, every manufacturer has been having problems with their newer vehicles. It's pretty much luck of the draw. To echo your sentiment, my 09 nav has been wildly more reliable than my 20 nav, but I think that's more how much more modern the newer truck is, so it's too many electrical components that harder to diag. On the flip side, my dad had a 22 escalade, only has 12k miles on her but from my understanding he's never had an issue, though many gm owners been having fits with their 6.2l engines the past cpl years.
I think f150 and ranger customers are completely different. IMO, it would take a whole lot more than a couple of inches here and there to get someone to drop down from a f150 to a ranger. I remember when the ranger came out that there were fears it would take away sales from the f150 too, but that never really happened either.
The tx state fair auto show is scheduled for Sept 27, I wouldn't be surprised if that's when the official debut will be as well as order banks opening up.
I get frustrated with the update issues that have existed at GasBuddy.com for years. I used to update prices to their site from my desktop computer but often found that only some prices were actually updated at their site. For a long time now, I've updated prices when I'm at the stations, save the changes to my phone via screen capture, but then find the same issues when I later check the GasBuddy.com site. Unfortunately, reporting these issues to their support department is a waste of time.
I can't believe parents let their kids drive these things. If I had a dollar everytime my ankles were murder by a kid speeding around in these I'd have enough money to fill my own shopping cart.
Im at the point now that I refuse to use safelite now-I got a nick then a crack in my windshield back in July. I had Safelite try to come out FOUR times fix it-either had damaged windshields shipped to them or other things came up. I winded up using a glass guy that the dealership uses and had an OEM glass installed within four hours of calling him.