Hopefully COVID and other things have taught companies not to put all of their eggs into a single basket. 

For what its worth-   The Chinese market is going to be a shit show over the next 3-5 years. They are in a major demographic decline with 50% of the population being over the age of 50, Other Countries like Germany, South Korea, Japan and Russia are on the same path. The USA is about 10-15 years behind them.    I can see outsiders like EU and US based companies getting squeezed out of that market sooner than later, but at the same time both the EU and USA will protect their markets from dumping.   Then if CCCP decides that Taiwan is worth the squeeze, they'll basically destroy their economy with economic impact that will cause...and that will be happening sooner then later. 

Ford brass has already decided about importing vehicles from China, it only works for Lincoln. The biggest hurdle remains tariffs making any imported Chinese Fords way too expensive to sell.

Yea, exactly. Some Honda dealers are apparently oblivious to this reality. For comparison a Tesla Model 3 Performance (way better than this glorified Civic coupe in every way) is $56,630.  

Is Scaringe pushing for the sunset of incentives given to the oil and gas industry, like the head honcho of Tesla?   "While Elon Musk has always maintained that he prefers a market with no EV tax credit, he also emphasized that he supports the rollback of any incentives given to the oil and gas industry. The Trump administration has not done this so far, instead focusing on the expiration of the $7,500 EV tax credit at the end of the third quarter." 

Have Lincoln dealers outside China really asked for a new sedan for its product lineup? As with the Mondeo, Lincoln Z (previously called Zephyr) isn't a strong seller in China, its largest market. What good would it do Lincoln dealers or FoMoCo to sell an anonymous boring unibody sedan like Lincoln Z elsewhere?    

I don't disagree that a more current, optimized platform sounds better, but I just question if Ford wants to make that investment.   Couple with the rumors that Ford may move on from CD6 altogether, why would they jump to adding it elsewhere?  I also thought that was one of the original plans for Mustang to go to it, and they decided not to?           I've said that for years now - importing Zephyr would give Lincoln dealers the sedan they've asked for without breaking the bank of having to set up production here.  Is it ideal?  No, but at least it's something since Ford doesn't seem to want to allow Lincoln to invest in its home market.  Keep it mid to high series trims to keep pricing up, and sell what you can sell.  Back in the day, MKZ sold anywhere from 1,500 to 2000+ a month.  Even if they can get 1000 a month, you're still adding 12k units to the brand/dealer sales.   The ideal scenario would be a Lincoln counterpart to this Mustang 4-door, but I'm skeptical that'll happen.   I also advocated bringing Evos over (the hatch version) as a Fusion-adjacent product that you can charge more for than a traditional sedan.  A Mustang 4-door would take its place, though.  

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I would not be at all surprised to see CD6 show up under a future Ford China vehicle. 

Maybe they could go back to using cd6 for the next coupe and sedan? I know weight and size were apparently concerns, but if they can find a way to make significant gains there, there's the potential to make the cd6 a kickass performance platform, plus we know it can package hybrid powertrains with relative ease.