It could be a chassis development mule tweaked to look like a 2 door pickup truck, I would not put a lot of stock into this becoming a reality.

The cyber truck also had a suggested range of 500 miles (IIRC) when it debuted. That peaked a lot of interest. In the end it’s ~300 just like the Lightning and any other EV these days.    I put a deposit down for the range promise. It didn’t materialize, so no more desire to have one.    I still think they could adapt the Y bones into a smaller truck (Maverick sized) and it would be pretty successful. 

It’s a very effective strategy 🤦‍♂️

My order for a 2025 Expedition Platinum Max has been confirmed October 29th, 2024, (make the order in Canada.) Lately I’ve been checking inventory and noticed that quite a few 2025 models ordered after mine have already been shipped. I’m wondering—are there others here who ordered around the same or similar time with me but are still stuck in “In Production” status? Also, aside from the official Ford order tracker, is there any other way to get more detailed updates on the order status? Any tips or shared experiences would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!      Some Update： I just contacted sales , he said vehicle has been built（FORD CHAT said still IN Production different with sales）, he also provided a screenshot showing "NON SHIPPABLE." What exactly is the current status? So confusing.

I paid $2.75/gal for E10/87 earlier this evening in Tulsa. 

Some countries restrict US imports and/or make it difficult to do business there in addition to tariffs, while they freely export to the U.S.  That’s the unbalance.   Yes, making more stuff in the U.S. may raise prices but some of the cost savings from cheap foreign production just goes to extra profits not increased prices.  But yes there is some trade off with higher prices for some things but the up side is more jobs and more products to export.  Once one company outsources cheap labor then they all have to do it to stay competitive and stay profitable.   Perhaps more importantly it makes us more self sufficient.  Being too dependent on foreign products is a huge problem as we saw during Covid.  Nobody including the imports have a problem building cars here and selling them profitably.

So without reciprocal tariffs what leverage do we have to get other countries to give us a more fair trade agreement?  Without leverage there is no negotiating.  And tariffs hit them in their pocketbooks which is most effective.   The other countries won’t let it go that far.  They’ve already asked to negotiate and promised concessions.  The only one that is in any danger of a prolonged battle is China and that’s a completely separate and far more complicated issue.    

I'm thinking its the Slate Truck that was in the thread I posted   I don't think Ford would do a 2 door truck either Just for compairson: A Maverick on a Flatbed tow truck-the CE2 would be roughly the same size   This 2 door looks quite a bit shorter in OL vs the Maverick. 

So here is the problem with all of this-people are fed information from their media about the United States and Trump has been a lightning rod of negative attention for years now...good bad or indifferent. I know random people in the EU that complain about Trump (without being prompted by me) and its a regurgitation of what they've seen from the media, which has its own agenda...but that is whole another story.     People are equating Trump=USA. People also feel powerless because they think the USA has this outsized influence over their country (real or managed) and vent about it.    Much of what is being done is stereotypical Trump's Art of the Deal style, which is further infuriating people.    People are dumb/stupid/assholes and just react to what is feed/given to them, instead of trying to be analytical and actually thinking about what is going on. But no the media just sells everything as a kneejerk reaction. Anyways-what has been going on is change of style in how the US policy is being done (once again good/bad/indifferent) and removal of the status que that some people feel like that the US might have been getting taken advantage of by certain individuals or even groups.    How much is actually changes won't be known till long after Trump is out of office.    

I saw another comment that suggested this could be Ford's skunkworks affordable EV truck. It fits some of the characteristics, small, affordable looking, electric truck with styling not too far off other boxy Ford's, and this was in California, the same state where Ford's skunkworks EVs are being developed.    But I'm not convinced that's true. I believe Fords skunkworks stuff will be more radical looking as implied by Farley, and I doubt Ford would make this truck a 2 door.