Exactly.
Its like Farley has fallen in love with what the skunkworks is doing and that
has taken his focus off those hybrids he was talking about earlier this year.
I would like to see Farley keep talking about those hybrid developments
as bridge for future BEV buyers..
With regards the plight of other brands, yeah I agree I’d sooner be in the Ford camp
than Stellantis or VW or the other German brands, the three main German brands
are now really struggling in China which is a big percentage of their profits.
The current passport’s dimensions are within an inch of the big broncos. To me, this new one appears to be larger although that could just be an illusion due to its boxier shape. The early model Passports and Rodeos were some of my favorite SUVs back in the day. It’s good to see the passport looking a bit more rugged like it used to.
I was in the middle of my edit-I saw a Pilot, not a Passport
Its just strange that they seemed to have disappeared from view for a very long time or they just blended in with everything else on the road for almost a decade, till I was behind one the other day...that is why it popped into my head.
In other words, unlike some brands that talk about making EVs more affordable, but never do, Ford is actually making it happen. At 36k the mach-e is very compelling.
Kinda off topic-but I was behind a newer the other day and I was shocked at how "small" it looked-The gen from about 10-15 years ago was roughly the size of an Explorer, but this one looked like it was about the size of an Edge.
I remember the Pilot used to be really popular back then, but outside of the one I saw last week, it seems to have disappeared in my area at least.