It really is a shame. The plans for cd6 seemed so promising, and nothing came of it. I'm hoping this will be a better late than never situation where Ford gets smarter at leveraging platforms like cd6. 

It was none of that. DEW was an expensive platform that wasn’t shared with the affordable large vehicles but the Thunderbird used it in 2002-2005.   Jaguar Land Rover actively lobbied about Ford using it and raising Lincoln to the level of a competitor  so yeah, Lincoln LS was that good…..

Who says the LS was a failure?  

I am sure that's closer to the REAL reason why the LS failed, that and the cost of the platform and the other models planned for it getting scrapped which upped the costs.  I was more talking about the folks over at FIN and GMI who would beat their chest over and over again how DEW98 could not accommodate AWD and kept saying that's why that platform failed.  Then boom XF gets AWD which spit on that entire narrative lol 

LOL, waymo robots on hold with Phillipino tech support …….

The whole point of the skunkworks was to pick up engineers that worked for Tesla and develop a strategy for Ford that involved a new and radical way to reduce construction costs.   What CE1 does right is get Ford in front of buyers with an alternative to the Tesla Y that connects with people who may be considering a pickup for the first time that just happens to be an affordable BEV.   I think the article pisses on Ford for the wrong reason, it’s fine to implement a construction process that copies a lot of Tesla’s unboxed construction, what I take issue with is the reporter assuming no real progress which is bs because there’s at least some prototypes made but clearly photographers can’t identify them yet……that’s the pissing match, no spy shots.

Mazda-Absolutely loved on various automotive forums....but nobody buys.....

Uh, no....   https://fordauthority.com/2026/02/japanese-ford-maverick-rival-not-happening-anytime-soon/   Assuming they do not want any Maverick sized Toyota truck eating into Tacoma sales....sounds like Fords excuse on why Ranger is only mildly promoted (if at all in North America)....don't want to dig too deeply into F150 sales. It only confirms the belief that Ranger is here to sell more Broncos. 

Saarlouis plant just ended Focus production last year, there’s a vacant plant that Ford could hand over to Geely and importantly it’s in Germany so far less pushback on where vehicles are manufactured in Europe. It would give Ford and Geely a walk up start to Germany, France, Italy and UK, ford’s biggest EU markets.   I know Valencia is high on th priority but announcing Bronco Sport will be built alongside Escape  kind of makes nonsense of the thought of handing over its best most efficient plant. The wolf is at the door for Ford, the last thing it needs to do is put it own neck on th block..

It just seems like all the money spent to make and sell the C2 Mondeo in China was to appease an ever diminishing audience. That same effort applied to a cost efficient blending of the CD4/CD6 to the Taurus  and Continental could have been so……..I have to stop myself…