I didn’t say fail, I forgot to type back   Another brand falling back to online shopping

I've never defended decontenting for useful features.  It sucks.  But most Ford prop rods came that way from day one and it's true that most people don't care.  You're the one who obsesses over the tiniest details.  I explain why Ford makes certain business decisions and I guess being in a fortune 50 corporation for 38 years I understand and accept those decision more than others.  But certainly not everything and we've discussed all the royal fuck ups lately.  

The brand didn't fail.   It's still online.

So sad another brand falling to online shopping.  

They have to keep the Corsair, adding to the already established Nautilus import chain makes it easier  but agree, cost factors may be worrying. They have to find a way as it’s a fair chunk of sales.   Farley has changed plans so many times his head must be spinning, their assessment of threats headwinds is atrocious and smacks of wilful blindness.

I’m not sure why you defend Ford on this stuff so much.  Is the end function the same? Does the hood stay up in order to do whatever is necessary under it? The obvious answer is yes. This would be acceptable if the price ever went down, but it rarely does. Ford routinely removes features from its vehicles, and I believe more than just Ford enthusiast notice. Is it enough to get people to not buy them yet, hard to say.  Five years ago, you would’ve never heard me badmouth Ford, but these actions are reducing value for the customer are wearing me out. Much to my chagrin, my wife just bought a 26 explorer ST to replace her 22 model. I tried to discourage her from buying it, but in the end it’s hers and that’s what she picked. I’ll post some observations about the 26 when I have some more time.

You misunderstood me, my comments were aimed at you listening to wankers over on other sites. As a n LS owner you know the truth, the vehicles weren’t failures and in fact such a threat to J/LR that they lobbied For to kill all those projects you mentioned. I never understood Ford scrapping DEW for Lincoln s it was perfect for them and the T’Bird.     DEW was Ford harvesting a Jaguar developed platform for its own premium vehicles that Lincoln had the capacity to pay for where J/LR couldn’t which is why they (J/LR) needed to go as their product cycle renewal costs were more than the value of the brands, Tata agreeing to fund the $8 billion product cycle costs   By 2006, it was all getting too hard for Bill Ford and all he could see is money bleeding everywhere, pity some smart heads around him didn’t keep some of the gems like DEW to keep Lincoln going to a more upmarket level of vehicles.

Well so much for Ford's BS about under hood heat preventing them from installing air brakes on  650/750 when equipped with a 7.3.  Blue Bird has done a good job giving a driver  good forward visibility  with that steeply slanted hood.   Amazing they  figured out how to control heat associated with a compressor and Ford can't figure it out with a hood that has to  provide considerably more frontal area and I would assume a large under hood cavity than the Blue Bird.

That's what kinglouie1957 the owner of Biondi Lincoln said on his video that he got a call from Lincoln telling him they had built enough to last the year but that there would be a new one coming.  I would like to think that they will keep the Corsair going because dropping to just 3 models is not a good look for Lincoln but who knows.  Ford likes to change plans all the time and it really seems like Farley just doesn't care about the Lincoln brand at all.

Ford really milked that EB trim too quite a few models got it   Bronco  Bronco II Explorer Expedition  F-150   I saw a post in a Facebook car group where someone shared an Explorer Sport (2 door) with the Eddie Bauer trim which has to be pretty rare.  I also agree with what others said the green and gold were such an iconic color scheme on Ford SUVs then too.