The Sandy Monroe guy has seen it, I wouldn't be surprised if others have as well. But he says he can't say anything because it's under embargo. That makes me hope we're not super far away from seeing it ourselves if people like him are getting a preview.
If anything a CUV type product would sell even better than a pickup and adding more product would make it an easier to make sales numbers.
The big issue is just mainstream acceptance of EVs and making them more affordable will make that easier.
Something else worth discussing IMO is planned time delay between pickup and next vehicles on this all-new EV platform. Farley is obviously very aware of the risk Ford is taking with this project, and if they are thinking there is a significant chance the whole thing could go south, or at minimum run into serious issues needing time to resolve, it would make sense for Ford to minimize initial capital investment and therefore reduce financial exposure by delaying subsequent vehicles until the pickup is proven, and also accepted by buyers. Assuming pickup 2027 schedule remains intact, when will others follow? Are we looking at 2028~2029 time frame? I can imagine some investors and analysts taking a wait and see approach.
So just to clarify with your previous post about this whole thing being pitched to investors and other select groups and them being lukewarm on it, are you saying they were actually shown the styling and weren't too fond of it, or that they just had a lot of doubts about Ford's plans to build these vehicles?
I saw that in the description, that's what I meant by "augmented," maybe not the right word. But I didn't see Google mentioned so I am assuming that they took away the Google gatekeeper, and allow you to use the voice button to operate whichever framework you want; Apple Car Play, Google, Android etc as in Sync3 & 4.
Cars are getting to be like printers. You buy the printer and then pay an exorbitant price for the exclusive ink cartridges.