Nope, I'm not waiting on an Escape replacement. I'll be happy with my 23 PHEV for at least 7 years. I'm just interested in learning about Ford's replacement plans like others here. Now, if Ford doesn't bring a Ranger PHEV to North America, then I will be sorely disappointed.

I get that but the vast majority of the time cars are only occupied by 1-2 people at a time also. 

Boils down to production space-the Land Cruiser and 4Runner come from their own plant in Japan and the Tacoma is built in its own plant in Mexico.   Not sure if would make sense for Ford to add the Everest in addition the Bronco and Ranger at MAP. 

I’m still not sold on this cannibalism theory.  There are other manufacturers that have similar vehicles within the same class of vehicles or in betweeners, that don’t seem to have that issue.  As pointed out, broncos top comes off, and I think that is a sufficient enough difference they wouldn’t significantly impact each other.  

Ride in the back seat for a meaningful distance and you will understand.  Plus the sliding rear  seats allow better flexibility for people/cargo. This isn’t meant to be a knock on BS, they are just different vehicles.   

Like that they made the floor very low, much like my Honda Odyssey and other minivans.  Step-in appears considerably lower than even FWD ProMaster.  Not sure how rear-door to floor transition is handled on cargo version.

These are things the customer routinely interacts with so it is just mind boggling these are what you choose to save a buck on so you can increase your profit margin.  Did I miss the corresponding cut in price of the vehicle?  It’s one thing to remove options and charge less, but this routine of cutting things and paying more is beyond frustrating, especially when the competition has the respective option. 

Facts are facts.  If Ford were such experts on vans as claimed, they would have not planned and announced eliminating E-Series because they were replacing it with Transit, and then having to take it back when told by many customers that they got it wrong.  Make whatever you want of it, but a manufacturer that know what van customers want would have not made such a miscalculation.

Atkinson V6 offers no real world improvement in gas mileage or performance. The 2.3L Ecoboost I4 gives better MPGs and performance numbers then it, and the Hyundai engine barely outperforms the NA 3.3l V6, which is only found in the PIU. 

Hyundai has been building even larger Atkinson V6 engines for years.  And Stellantis also.  Whether it made sense for Ford with 3.3L, which I believe is in reference to Explorer hybrid, is anyone’s guess, but that doesn’t preclude larger Atkinson engines in future.  As can be seen in data below for Hyundai Palisade, power loss due to Atkinson cycle is manageable.   Ford is far from infallible on technical decisions as proven by previous product issues, plus there could have been other reasons including financial that limited Explorer Hybrid from getting an Atkinson upgrade.  Only suggesting you keep an open mind that just because Ford hasn’t done it yet doesn’t mean larger Atkinson can’t or shouldn’t be done in future.