What should Ford do in segments where it has never been competitive, where it screwed up over and over, and where there's no hope of hitting the bullseye?
Only reason the Maverick is long is because of the bed...otherwise the Interior area (seating) is identical to the Escape. The Explorer is 199 inches long and the Bronco is 190 IIRC.
If an Escape replacement happens, it will be around 180-185 inches long.
I remember when the last Taurus rolled off the line in Atlanta they gave (or sold) it to Truett Cathy the chick-fil-a founder. The factory workers were regulars at his original dwarf house restaurant (that turned into chick-fil-a) near the factory.
Those other cd6 products were never announced to the public. These have been and also to investors. Could plans change? Of course but they also need the volume to fill up Louisville. And that market is virtually untapped for now.
In other news - water is wet!
This has been the case for several years. Focus (pun intended) on what they're good at which is also most profitable for them. It doesn't matter what they used to do this is a new era and new markets.
Only in the USA where’re fuel prices are a lot less than rest of the world.
These days, emissions regs and adblue SCR, modern diesels hate lots of short running where they can’t do regen.
That is now opening up customers moving to gasoline hybrid - exactly where North America is aligned.
Interesting times.
The GAA was pretty revolutionary for its time-it was selected by the US Army as its primary choice to power the M4 Sherman tank after 1943, after it was tested stateside.
Also Ford was one of the biggest manufacturers of Pratt and Whitney Radial engines for the P-47 and other aircraft.