Yea, it's an ethical dilemma with no solution that satisfies both sides. Save lives of people inside the big heavy vehicles at a cost to lives to people outside the vehicles? Or the other way around?
“For every life the heaviest one percent of SUVs or trucks saves in America,” The Economist wrote, “more than a dozen lives are lost in smaller vehicles. This makes traffic jams an ethics class on wheels.”
Good luck with that with all the other requirements for making a car safer to drive and well EVs coming on that add an extra 1000lbs for a battery pack.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
Well depending on the growth of the EV market-outside of the Mach E needing to be sold in the EU (which it might not be due to the Explorer and Puma EVs now), it might make sense to consolidate all EV production at BOC in the next 36 months, maybe outside of the Skunkworks EV, but I'm guessing that is even up for change and Louisville will stay ICE/HEV for at least the rest of the next UAW contract.
I like the Cuauatitlan idea. Keeps labor cheaper. Move Nautilus there. Create an Edge replacement similar to the Toyota Crown on C2. Put it there. Keep the Escape an put it there.
But I'm sure getting suppliers in line won't happen quickly.
The fear of turbos is rooted in the 1980s/90s bolt on turbos that were failure prone due to bad designs.
Ecoboosts are designed for turbocharging just like turbo diesels and don’t have any of the heat problems like the old ones. The 2.3 especially has been really good while the v8 has had several issues including cam phasers.
I can understand wanting a cheaper GT just from a price perspective but the current choices probably cover 98% of potential buyers so hard to justify.