I wonder if there is going to be a lot of test runs and tweaking with production best practices for building vehicles with the new methods Ford recently touted. 

Ford took $11 billion out of Ford Blue vehicle programs to pay for its electrified future….   Let that settle in for a while……

Lincoln Z?

But I have my first Ford the year 2000.  A 2008 V6 short bed.  Somewhere around 11 Fords over the years before it.  

Will it be nice enough to interest the kind of buyers that are currently buying Rivian R1 or Land Rover Defender?    Everest itself would be a good 4Runner competitor though.     That's the problem... Ford's production planning is totally disjointed so they cannot shift products around the world easily like Toyota. The Chinese Bronco EREV is similar to what I had in mind for Lincoln but more lux inside. Like it should rival G-Wagen for the material and color selections but obviously at a more reasonable price point (like $60-100K range). Very few brands can pull off the authentic luxury offroader niche... Lincoln being Ford adjacent can do it.   

Because larger cars are in even less demand than midsized cars and those sketches are terrible.

it’s 2 inches wider than the MKZ and they can stretch the wheelbase as much as necessary.

Yep, and here's the thing, I think Ford was right for bringing an end to how they designed passenger cars, in the sense that having all these cars in different platforms was super expensive and I understand why they wanted to bring an end to that.    But they should have just consolidated all of their sedans and hatchbacks onto one platform which would have significantly improved profitability. I also believe there's a way to execute car form factors to make them align with Ford's vision of becoming an enthusiast centric brand.    I mean for crying out loud, with the exception of the bronco and raptor, pretty much all of Ford's iconic enthusiast cars from decades past are some sort of car, be it a muscle car, hot hatch, or supercar. Ford should do more of that instead of assuming everyone wants a truck.    Trucks are great, they're profitable, but ford is getting pretty close to being trucked out yet several of their plants have a lot of capacity on the table they refuse to allocate towards other types of silhouettes. 

not even a whisper of a rumor. Probably forget about anything new for Flat Rock for now. 

We all know Ford loves to chop some of their existing product with sometimes no replacement. Absolutely makes no sense to me. In some cases the replacements have worked but not all the time which is quite clear.