No racing over the holidays to watch, so I've succumbed to watching videos of truck plants. First one was of Ford's Ohio Assembly, and I was really impressed by how clean and technically advanced the plant is. Then Daimler's assembly plant in the Carolinas, workers wearing masks dated it to the 20202s but the crudeness of the plant made it look like not much had changed in decades.    Left me convinced that Ohio Assembly is an underrated plant and Ford needs to give them something from the 21st century to build!

As much as I was supportive of the VW merger, I have concerns about Renault and some very consistent issues with French car quality.

It's a software failure not a hardware failure.

Possibly, but I believe they're testing the waters for affordable EV smaller vehicles, like a new fiesta, in Europe using someone else's platform before they go all in on developing it themselves. I believe Ford will replace all of those EU partnership EVs with its own platform if the demand is there once the timing is right. 

For sure, and agree with Joe's comment on similar "voice" showing up  on other posted articles.    That blue "LTL" is by the way an LN with an aftermarket hood that has  the LTL grill work.  I believe someone had posted a picture  of a white LN with that hood so it apparently is being produced by someone. The AI world lends new importance to the old saying..."take it with a grain of salt".

"If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is."  

Changed models/brands and the statement remains the same....

Curious if there will be a V6 variant of 7.3L Godzilla...a 5.5 liter V6 for an extended range EV Superduty? Hmmmm.... 

The module may fail, but its a software fix?!

Here lies the problem-the midsized unibody would be the upcoming CE1 pickup going by what the rumors are.    I just think adding a smaller pickup then the Maverick, The Maverick, the CE1 and the Ranger would be dividing the pie up too much.  To make a Bronco pickup that isn't a useful pickup is just spending bad money for no reason that could be better off used for something else.    The Ranger is cheap to do since pretty much everything about it is paid for ROW sales.    IMO they'd be better off adding another Bronco CUV product to slot between the Bronco and Bronco Sport that would be an Escape/Edge replacement before adding a Bronco pickup. Plus I don't think that adding hybrid/EREV/Lincoln Broncos would lead to that big of an increase in sales when MAP could build 250-300K units a year that would require the Ranger to be removed from that plant.