Can't push a rope either.

Thats 71k sales of Ranger with virtually no effort by Ford.  Imagine if they actually tried.  

Where did you see that in the press release?

1.) Ford isn’t the only car company to do that, but the reason why Ford needed to is that it’s more resource constrained than its competitors    2.) Inefficient processes, a total lack of long term thinking, and a company culture in which finger pointing, back stabbing, and an every person for themselves mentality dominate, especially among the big shots

That’s great, but GM’s actions recently speak louder than the head honcho’s words. Where is GM’s answer to Ford’s upcoming CE1 products? Ain’t heard anything yet.   Then again, GM might just pull off a breakthrough for affordable, high volume EV for the masses in the next couple years that we don’t know about now. Ford can’t afford to dilly dally on those products and production processes or pull away from an aggressive EV strategy generally. I’m hopin’ CE1 and other skunkworks initiatives gets Ford to the all-EV future we've been talking about before GM.

Designed for Gen z? Ah yes, the ultimate consumer for a 50 grand 5 seater large SUV. 

RTR…   https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2026/2027-ford-bronco-rtr?cksid=&emailid=b24t0831_em_en_mediaalert_fordmediasubs_npr_ns_ns_tp1_1_nt&fcid=eml_B24T0831_sf  

The Escape died because they needed the factory and I'm guessing the UEV will yield a "replacement" in some form in a few years.    As for the gap, well I guess they decided that the Bronco Sport was a better option for the time being? 

Yes, it was inevitable that the absence of hybrids would hit GM hard and require a reversal of that policy. And also ironic that GM produced the Volt (an EREV) long before the EREV concept moved to center stage. GM will also eventually reverse their policy of dropping Apple Carplay and Android Auto when they feel the pain from customers looking elsewhere.

I think Mary is talking about removing the fly cut between the cylinders and having more room between the cylinders. The L8T is at .335” with the 7.3 at .307” .  At ford, this probably forced them to a seimezed design with no coolant between the cylinders. At 105.15 mm bore for a 7 liter Godzilla, the distance between cylinders would be .3877” which would allow water around the entire cylinders and make rebuilding the engine a couple of times possible. Like all designs, compromises are made to make it to market within a given development period. Also Ford might be hedging their ecoboost bet in F150 given the upcoming new GM V8 engines at 5.7, 6.6 and 6.7 liters. edselford