Here's hoping they learned from the 3 row. The guy who led the CE1 design team was also a guy who worked on the Ford GT and bronco revival, so he seems to know his way around a pen, his name is Todd Willing.
This could just be me reading into things too much, but the fact that he was promoted to the head of all global Ford design following his work on the CE1 stuff seems like Ford liked what he came up with. If the CE1 vehicles dropped the ball in terms of styling, I don't believe Ford would have promoted him to the head of styling for all future vehicles globally.
Yea, earlier in this thread I quoted from Jimbo's and Billy Boy's "Model T moment" speeches at REVC when F-150 Lightning production started at REVC in 2022:
Jim Farley:
"The Model T changed the world not because it was beautiful or slick, but because it was ingenious. Our customers found ways of using the Model T for all sorts of things that no one predicted at the time like school buses and ambulances. Some enterprising folks took off the back to make the world’s first pickup trucks.
With the F-150 Lightning, I believe Ford is tapping into the same spirit of innovation that fueled the early models my grandfather worked on."
William Clay Ford Jr.
"This moment is every bit as important to the company as when the Model T first started rolling off the assembly line."
Farley is claiming August 11th as a "Model T" moment for Ford. Yeah, right. Believe it when you see it. Otherwise, this is likely to be more smoke and mirrors from Ford regarding future product(s) for publicity. In addition, August 11th is billed as an announcement, not a product reveal. Ford is not going to reveal a product that isn't expected to be available for either the 2027CY or 2027MY this far in advance. And if it's about the widely expected mid-size BEV pickup that Ford's been teasing, how "radical" can we expect the design to be?
Check with Fenix.com - large chain of scrap / recycling yards. When he says "steering harness" is he referring to the power steering hoses, or is there some sort of electrical harness he is talking about?
That’s the key word- subscribes. The Alicia lady has experience with subscription businesses from working at Alto Pharmacy and at Amazon.
Ford Pro wants to be a subscription business too