Agreed, hopefully it's like a case of Ford meets alpine styling instead of just being a jelly bean with rally lights tacked on. But I like the direction, I think it's fun and interesting. 

That's great to hear my friend. My wife has a '25 MME GT and says its the best car she's ever owned.    Hopefully, the dreaded Ford rot on the vine disease doesn't negatively impact MME or for that matter the upcoming CE1 products in the years to come. I'm cautiously optimistic that the newfangled design, engineering, and manufacturing techniques from the skunkworks will enable Ford to keep its future product lineup lookin' fresh and appealing over time while also keepin' costs under control.

Let’s see how those products look before we praise them.  If they just stick an extra fog light on and call it “rally inspired”, that’s not worth it either.  It’s good they’re at least thinking about it.   I think many times it takes people actually experiencing something before they accept it.

I wonder if this very rapid push to hybrid vehicles will have a trickle down effect to greater EV acceptance down the road. Hybrids are genuinely very common now in a lot of areas, both mild and plug-in. People who never thought they'd own a hybrid now do, and are realizing they actually kinda love it. That electrified vehicles can be smooth, reliable, and improvement over pure ICE.    I could see a lot of those hybrid owners who like the refinement making the jump to full EVs as they become more affordable and easier to live with. My parents were anti anything electrified, they thought it would be a hassle and unreliable. They love my maverick and are fully on the hybrid train now. Now my mom is strongly considering a full EV, a full 180 from where she was a few years ago. She loves the mach-e. She doesn't really view it as this boogieman tech anymore.    We probably won't get the CE1 truck just because it sounds similar to my maverick and I don't see the point of having two similarly sized trucks, and I like my maverick too much to trade it in, unless it shits the bed in a major way. But we're following other CE1 develops very closely. A mach-e style utility or some sort of hatchback/sedan if it's well executed has a high likelihood of being purchased by us. 

Agreed, it felt like BS had a lot of effort put into it's styling, and the escape was just put into a microwave. I feel like there's a way to do curvey styling that's more enticing. Heck, just look at Ford's European strategy now where they're gonna pull styling from rally cars. Even something like that could give escape styling a shot in the arm so to speak. 

I'm 63 and would easily take an EV truck since I only use it as a spare vehicle and to make lumber and HD runs.  But we're not ready to go EV on our main vehicle for road trips.  I know it can be done but I just don't want to worry about finding a charger especially in remote areas.   If I had extra garage space I would gladly have an EV daily driver and keep an ICE vehicle for road trips.

About two thirds of both new cars buyers in general and EV buyers specifically are 40+, according to the 2025 Year in Review from Experian:     While there isn't an inherent push back against EVs due to buyer age, EV pricing/affordability remains a concern.   Although battery-electric vehicles are getting closer to price parity with their internal combustion siblings, the affordability factor is the main reason consumers are holding back on adopting electrification, according to a recent survey by S&P Global Mobility.   Ford is in a good position to solve this issue with its CE1 products

...Or Lego.

I am 62 and am looking forward to the CE1 truck that is coming out - currently have a 2025 Maverick Hybrid - would have liked to have gotten a plug in hybrid version but no such animal, yet. I'm ready for the change. 

Even though there are additional charging points, I think there is still an inherent push back against EVs with the largest buyers of new cars-older people who are 40+ and are used to doing something and don't want to change, even though if you can charge at home its not really an issue IMO.    Its going to take another 5-10 years of build out and cheaper EV's to convince people to change or have older people age out of buying new vehicles.