If you ignore Explorer's 23% drop....
Expedition gets a bit of a pass because it's transitioning to the new model (maybe it'll arrive sometime this year? lol)....
Not to mention some the products with major drops are in the middle of refreshed product launches like the Maverick and Expedition
The Mustang is in a three month rut of sales shrinking but who really buys a Mustang in the middle of the winter north of the mason Dixon line too.
The S197 is very distantly similar to the Lincoln LS platform and keep in mind that same platform was found under the Thunderbird of that era.
I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to make the current Mustang platform into a sedan and who knows, maybe future impact standards are going to require a redesign effort to the Mustang platform to meet those standards, so adding sedan will hopefully offset the costs of that.
The drop is all Edge and Mustang. Probably not hurting profits too much but volume will suffer and I agree there aren’t any good replacements for Edge.
I just looked up ground clearance and vehicle height for the Mustang Vs Dodge Charger, they were much closer than I thought. I stand corrected I guess. Not much will keep my brother's wife from complaining (haha - poor guy).
Charger has a 13 inch longer wheelbase though.
Goes to the point someone else made about other platforms more suited to the 4 door task.