Definitely can't trust Ford's site, their color guesser on the site is terrible at showing these flatter "clay" colors. I own a Glacier Gray and it is absolutely brighter and lighter than what Ford's site led me to believe. You should be able to see pics online or even see both colors on a dealers lot (maybe not at the same location / same time). Avalanche to me in pics looks like an off white, and is probably the "clay" version of white so a bit more flat than their normal white.
The problem is even if you find a side by side picture I don't think it'll help too much -- these colors are so dynamic in real life. I actually love my glacier gray truck, though I was a bit shocked when I went to pick it up. The tone and personality of the color change depending on sunny or cloudy and time of day. Flat pictures don't really communicate that well; I think you are better off finding these colors at a local dealer and seeing them in person to see which one sings to you. Good luck!
Well its not like Ford is going to step on their dick with commercial vehicles anytime soon...well hopefully.
But as stated, the car/crossover business can be a little smaller if they sell slightly more expensive vehicles like what is happening with the Escape and Bronco Sport. The BS makes almost a 100,000,000 more the the Escape with roughly 13-15K less sold using a 5% vs 8% profit margin.
Yea, sales volume for the EV versions will probably be low to start, but they'll grow. Wouldn't be surprised if Porsche has a 50/50 mix of EV/gas for Macan and 718 by 2030
Yea, the head honcho big shot at Ford implied that:
“We’re getting out of the boring-car business and into the iconic-vehicle business”
Porsche of course is in the iconic-vehicle business, they do it better than anyone. Difference with Ford is that it will still have a place for boring vehicles, but those will be commercial work vehicles in Ford Pro. The head honcho said this about Ford's boring cars and crossovers:
"they could never justify more capital allocation – unlike commercial vehicles."
Dead thread revival, but having spent several hours now with our '24 Nautilus I can say when BlueCruise works it works well, but holy hell when BlueCruise is not available you are better off shutting off lane keeping and just drive manually. The sensors can't cope with sunrise/sunset situations just like the article said. The debounce time is way to short to the point you can't even take a drink or adjust something on the center stack without it bitching at you (it seems better with hands free active). This is kind of ironic. They move more and more stuff to the center stack which requires you to take eyes off (rather than tactile buttons and knobs) then have the safety systems go crazy when you actually have to look at said center stack. It is extremely frustrating to be driving, looking straight ahead on the highway and have the thing yell at you to pay attention. It is obvious that the system hasn't been tested by a large enough variety of operators in a large variety of conditions. This is basic stuff that engineers should have seen in development. Speed sign recognition is also hit or miss. We have had several instances where the car will randomly decide it saw a sign that said 50, 30, even 5 mph (this one was while the wife was driving, scared the piss out of her, had to tell her just to hit the gas to overide because it aggressively slowed on an a turnpike), even when no sign existed. Either these were nav database errors or it was reading something that wasn't a speed sign. Also when it does legitimately read a sign, it doesn't always do the transition where it shows the current and the new and gradually slows. We have also had several times where the GPS just freezes and the speed sign recognition just ceases to function at all. Lane centering isn't great, it wanders a bit and tends to pull you towards the center line more than it should. I don't see why on a two lane road or 4 lane highway it can't keep the vehicle biased to the shoulder side, or give you the ability to adjust the bias.
Is Porsche business model, based on it being an exclusivity brand, comparable to Ford? Reducing overall volume may actually help Porsche, but I’m not sure the same would apply to Ford long-term if they focus on margins so much so that they slowly shrink size to nothing. Not implying you said that, just that Ford has to be careful balancing short-term profits versus long-term health IMO.