https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65436635/2026-hyundai-santa-fe-transmission-change/

The only plausible path for Ford Europe to add some new products quickly would be to borrow something from VW... but it's a short term fix.   If they want to have long term solution, they have to keep Kuga in production (the last remaining C2 products in Europe) until they can develop a new gen. If C2 goes away completely in Europe, the economics of restarting production is basically impossible. All your suppliers will be gone and they won't make time for you again.

It still takes minimum 3 years to do a new body on top of C2. By that time, Fiesta would have left the market for 6 years, Focus for 4 years, and Kuga for 2 years. Sales momentum will be non-existent and Ford has to basically relaunched as a new brand to buyers who have never considered it before.    If Ford really wants to save its European business, they have to keep the Kuga in production and new products in the next 12 months. Waiting 3 years to bring back Fiesta or Focus is just as nutty as cancelling them in the first place. 

Ideally, they could (hopefully) take some learnings from the skunkworks program and apply it to C2?

No, each example you listed is the same body with different powertrains.  This one they debuted is a different body, same name, same showroom.     Y'all are being difficult on purpose.   They literally have two vehicles called Ford Bronco with completely different bodies.  not "Ford Bronco" and "Ford Bronco Sport"  I guess if they're going to pass it off as "Ford Bronco New Energy" and have "new energy" be the model designation (i.e. Sport) sure, but that's a dumb name lol.  I guess are the others "Ford Bronco New Energy BEV, Ford Bronco New Energy PHEV" Etc.???

Subaru Built A 338hp AWD EV That Launches Like A Hot Hatch On Caffeine | Carscoops     Weird name for their copy paste of the CH-R    

The Hyundai 8-speed Dual Clutch Transmission was recalled in December 2022 for the following:   Certain Hyundai vehicles equipped with 8-speed dual clutch transmissions (DCT) may encounter drivability symptoms, such as rough upshifts, hesitations, or lack of motive power, and/or certain Diagnostic Trouble Codes (DTC) such as P1C2D03   And again in 2024 for their propensity to self-destruct:   The Dual Clutch Transmission (“DCT”) in the subject vehicles could become damaged during normal operation due to Transmission Control Unit (“TCU”) software logic that could inadvertently engage the clutches and damage the transmission case and/or parking pawl.

Yea, that was a rhetorical question. 😄Repealing CAFE is logical and common sense. That makes it too hard to do for the Congress critters.   Another thing that's logical and common sense is to index the federal gasoline and diesel fuel excise tax to inflation. It's been at $0.184/gallon (gasoline) and $0.244/gallon (diesel) for almost 32 years, they should be at least $0.411/gallon (gasoline) and $0.545/gallon (diesel) by now. But common sense ain't common in Congress

This is a chance at a clean sheet to create a low priced platform probably starting with C2.  The question is how much of the infrastructure can be clean sheet vs having to reuse the old stuff that was highly inefficient.  

That’s past even the Ford ESP which is typically 7 years.