Here you go:   A new C2 Hybrid only SUV appears to have been approved but won’t arrive until 2029 for MY30. This will be a sister to the next Bronco Sport.

Hmm...could it have been mixing signals of the Maverick CUV in 2028 as a 2029 model?

Its buried in the one of the threads but it was said that the Bronco Sport will be joined by another product in NA in 2029

With how often Ford changes plans, who knows....     I'm guessing the Maverick SUV will be somewhere between Escape and Edge.   I don't remember the 2029 Bronco CUV rumor.

So I guess the plan going forward is this: New Bronco Sport from Spain   New CUV based on the Maverick that will be larger-Maybe an Edge replacement?   Maverick based Van   But wasn't there also rumors of another CUV Bronco product coming in 2029 to NA?    

It means they had a plan to replace Escape at least 18 months ago and explains why they didn’t look to move ce1 elsewhere.

I believe the chicken tax is only for trucks/commercial......remember when Ford tried to skirt around it with Transit Connect by shipping them in with rear seats (making it a passenger vehicle) that they'd then remove to sell the work van?     Eh......sort of.......seems more reactionary than a plan.     That's a great point about RHD being baked into this.....opens up sending them down under too, where I think it'd be a great offering.   BS is set for a redesign regardless, so PHEV wouldn't have been retrofitted to ours at this point anyway.   Definitely a good idea to take BS global, IMO.

You're right.  No, I don't think they did that at all....

Yea, I remember Autocar Company settin' up a small exhibit at Work Truck Week in Indianapolis a few years ago for their electric yard goat. Don't know if they'll return for the 2026 show  

It's an easy headline to say "Ford has 138 recalls!!!!" but not all recalls are created equal, as you point out.  Ford has also had a ton of vehicles recalled too, but it's better they're proactive rather than reactive.