I wouldn't be concerned at all, the GTD is more or less a Ford GT "replacement" in the lineup   You can still get other models for a far more reasonable price.   The Corvette and its offshoots are bespoke products that are requiring what I'd assume millions of dollars in R&D for an engine that isn't shared with anything else (to best of my knowledge-not sure if they share anything with other GM V8s) for more or less what is a vanity product. I'm not sure what GM approach is here outside of saying hey we can do this but we aren't making money on it.    Ford is basically factory modifying a 60K car with an uprated truck engine and is able sell it for $300K. I think its detractors don't like the supposed lack of snob appeal that it might not have. 

Not the same thing, it bombed with buyer because the major styling change was a problem The other major change was a weight reduction close to 200 lbs.   What I’m talking about is getting away from a simple evolutionary model change to something that significantly lowers design and manufacturing costs which did not happen with the 2020 Escape.

The updated Escape was the first of the three of them to be launched. the 2020 was a major change from the 2019.  

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I wonder if humanoids will change the UAW's (confrontational) bargaining stance during the next contract talks.  Looks like OEM's now have an option they didn't have before.

Yea, the humanoids from Boston Dynamics and others are among the technologies that can bring about a big resurgence of manufacturing productivity in the U.S., reversing stagnation and decline over the past decade or so:   The labor productivity of American manufacturing has declined in the past decade. American workers needed 106 hours of work in 2023 to produce what needed only 100 hours in 2013. The good news, though, is that the game of leapfrog calls for the jumped-over player to then do the jumping. And the oncoming wave of AI-enabled manufacturing technologies are well suited to U.S. advantages.   While industrial robots have been around for a long time, engineers had to program those machines for each task they might handle—and, crucially, re-program them when a task changed even slightly. Such brittleness is exactly what contemporary approaches to AI stand to fix.   In theory, then, general-purpose robots could potentially adapt to any environment without having to be explicitly programmed to do so, communicating about needed adaptations in human language. They could handle subtle changes in their environment (“the boxes are usually in one part of the factory, but today, they’re somewhere else”) in the same fluid way that a human worker does.  

Yea, all good stuff. But the two charging related features that really make this EX60 appealing are: 19.2 kW Level 2 onboard charger Built-in NACS port

Humanoids (as they are being called) have the potential to change everything.  From Autoline Daily a few days back:   Last week we reported that automotive assembly plants building cars entirely with humanoid robots could be a reality by 2030. One Tier 1 CEO told Autoline that even if humanoids cost $250,000 apiece they would pay for themselves in less than two years, because each robot could work two shifts, replacing two workers. And that’s at a supplier company that pays lower wages than the automakers do. The total annual labor cost for the average UAW worker at the Detroit Three is about $140,000 a year, so the payback for a humanoid could be less than a year. The UAW contract expires in 2028 and it will be fascinating to see if the threat of humanoids plays a role in labor negotiations.

I forgot that Hyundai bought Boston Dynamics 

Not bad!   800v architecture  400kw charging  Up to 115 KWh battery