It's confusing because the maverick was a compact truck now internally some view it as a midsized truck, it's all over the place. I personally believe if Ford's trying to make each offering its own thing, a cab over electric truck might be worth considering. I could see how something with a ranger sized cab, an F-150 sized bed, but maverick exterior dimensions would be really appealing to fleet buyers, and casual consumers who wanted a super practical truck. But stylistically, that might be pushing it too far, we'll see.    I believe Ford said they would discuss more details about these EVs in early '25 so we should be getting more details any day now. Watch them be like "Yeah so we're making affordable EVs" and that's their idea of discussing their plans. 

I get what you're saying, there will never be a perfect time to make it happen, you just gotta go for it. I don't believe you need to be a millionaire to have kids or anything like that, but you still gotta plan, and try to have some stability. 

That’s interesting, it carries elements of an old school Camaro.

It’s actually about choices. You either choose to have kids or you don’t. if you think you’re going to plan it out for the right time, there’s never a right time.  Life is what happens when you are busy making plans. It’s about what you want to prioritize in your life. For all the young people who aren’t choosing to have kids and prioritizing other things, I’m sorry to hear that.   The best part of my life is being a parent.  Even with all the ups and downs of parenting, it is something I would never change.  Never mind the fact that your bloodline will disappear in the end, which is pretty sad.  

Agreed on the low end of the spectrum, Rattler is not a great name. They should come up with something better than that.   for sure, it would be foolish to destroy that brand recognition. There’s nothing wrong with the CD6 platform, so it wouldn’t be that difficult to improve on it and create the next gen based on it.   As do I, otherwise they really won’t have anything to sell.  In any of these cases, they just can’t take half-assed approaches to their replacements.  

Loved my F350.  I know the F450 is a harder ride. But Stopping and turning is what made me up grade. so many times the turing would of been helpfull to me. And knowing bigger brakes may be a good idea too.

And nearly 50% of there population is over the age of 50 also

Even worse in China where the fertility rate is 1.2.

I wouldn't say most. Some... sure.   These are the C2-based products: Focus Escape/Kuga/Corsair Mondeo/Zephyr Edge/Nautilus Maverick/Bronco Sport   One one C2 adjacent product: Equator/Equator Sport   I grouped Maverick and Bronco Sport together because their fate are clearly tied together as they depend on each other to keep Hermosilo volume up like Corsair with inevitably tied with Escape. You can't really have one without the other.   So looking at this C2 portfolio and thinking about Ford's off-road/SUV performance focus and Farley's "no boring car" edict, make your pick which one will get investment for another generation... I know which ones I won't bet on.       

Take that back! You are breaking my heart.