More people would accept any Mustang if its price started under $30K. I think this would apply to ICE, BEV, or anything in between. I just realized that when you add Delivery Charges to the base Maverick and base Escape, they both cost over $30K. Ford no longer has passenger vehicles priced under $30K in the US, not unless you have some kind of discount. Totally different era 4 years ago when you could get a $20K base Maverick.

https://www.carscoops.com/2025/05/this-is-the-new-toyota-fj-cruiser-youve-been-waiting-for/   Kinda interesting-apparently roughly the size of a Bronco Sport with BOF construction   Guessing it will be a hybrid so it doesn't impact their CAFE 

I keep forgetting how much smaller vehicles where in the 1980-1990s-the OG 4 door Explorer is roughly the same length as the 25 Escape is. 

As someone who owns an EV and commutes 400+ miles in a day a few times a month, very rarely would you be at a charging station for half an hour.    Batteries charge the fastest at a low remaining battery percentage. They take the full power of the charger in that range and then slow down the closer you go to full. Typically I’ll leave my home with a full charge on the Lightning, drive ~215 miles and stop at a charger for about 15 minutes. This adds ~100 miles to my range. Do the same at another station about 2-2.5 hours down the road. Eventually getting home with ~10% range left. (When I had a Model Y, that same range would take even less time).    My 400 mile round trip typically has about 30 minutes total added for charging. Compared to about 10 minutes for fueling up my old F-150 with gas. I try to align my stops with restroom, stretch, and snack stops. So it really doesn’t add that time.    In exchange for that time spent, I also save about 50% on fuel costs and don’t have to waste 2 hours at the dealership for oil changes every two months (I drive a lot - 40k a year). Along with never stopping anywhere to charge but at home when not on longer business trips. 

Define useable range. 

Also from Toyota:     It no doubt improves on previous vehicle, but my concerns remain about price and steady high-speed highway driving range.  The “up to” numbers sound good, but under what conditions?  Most affordable, as example, is not very powerful and has limited “rated” range, with real-world highway driving likely much lower.  Similarly most powerful isn’t highest range, and is probably on pricey side.  I’d like to see prices to compare against competition before deciding just how much it offers.  One feature that’s worth noting is that maximum efficiency is over 4 miles per kWh which isn’t bad, at least at slower-speed EPA rating test conditions.  It is at steady 75 MPH that many BEV SUV struggle with lack of useable range.

The upper rear end around the tail lights and maybe the shape of the greenhouse is what stuck out to me as being different from the current Mach E and wouldn't be hard to translate into the production/street one

Love those two Saleen models - tough find for the wheels.

The 2.3 Puma diesel used by Jiangling Ford looks like it is also similarly value engineered for China. The European Puma diesel was either 2.0, 2.2 or 2.4 liter and have been replaced by the 2.0 EcoBlue. So looks like Ford updated the old Puma (there is 2.0 and 2.3 liter versions now) and is using it only in China. It powers all the Jiangling Ford trucks and vans as I noted above.     

I don't believe any of that will translate to a road variant. Well then again, I noticed how the lower fascia is very GTD in appearance. So maybe if they made a high performance mach-e beyond the gt, they'd give it GTD styling cues.    Overall,  not bad. I still think supervan is my favorite EV demonstrator because of the insane flying buttress design, but this is badass.