Daihatsu and Hino are Toyota brands, and they make around 800,000 Tacoma/HiLux pickups a year and several vans that Ford has no competitor for. Traton is VW Group's truck builders and they build hundreds of thousands of vans, including the Transit Connect for Ford. Hino builds a full line of real trucks that eclipse Ford's limited offerings as does MAN's and VW's own truck brands. And Scania is the world's best truck, revered by even diehard Mack fans. 

Better yet, make it AWD with the ability to disconnect the front wheel drive train for when you want the fun of a rear wheel drive car.

I didn't intend my post to become a hot topic of discussion but here we are 😀   In regard to the topic, I am getting my CVT serviced (drain and fill) tomorrow. It's kind of criminal that the dealership is charging 399 for a drain and fill. I only have Subaru dealers service the CVT. Other than normal maintenance and replacing wear items, that is all I am going to spend on it. The moment that CVT grenades itself, I will buy a new vehicle. Whether that is 5 weeks from now or 5 years, who knows.    I spent a lot of time looking over the past few days. From the Ford camp, the Maverick, Ranger and Bronco all seem like viable options.  None of them are perfect but I feel they will last long enough and there are some deals to be had. Other contenders are the Land Cruiser (pricier and 0 deals to be had) and VW Atlas (mostly unsure of that one but good value).  If I go used which is an option, all signs point to an RX 350 of the 2022 vintage. I don't particularly like that vehicle but it's rock solid and comfortable but kind of ugly.   I have no qualms with electric vehicles and I could see owning one eventually, but charging time, infrastructure (or lack there of), and high initial cost are too prohibitive right now. I am a car guy through and through but even I know they are the future unless something better comes around.  It's like everything else that has gone digital, you lose some of the experience but overall they are mostly better (my opinion).   In regard to Ford, they have made some missteps. My thoughts are they went into electrics head first because they were getting roasted by Wall Street/shareholders as not being as innovative as Tesla and some other electric starts up (which most have gone bankrupt/vaporware). They took a gamble so the talking heads on CNBC would stop calling them a dinosaur. The problem is that most of the US was NOT ready for electric vehicles. Most here were saying Ford needed to leverage hybrids and then ease into electrics. Well Ford only has two hybrids in the US for consumers,  Maverick and F150. I guess 3 if you count the Chinese made Lincoln Nautilus hybrid. Regardless, they are at pretty large pivot point.  I hope they learned a lot from all of their past tries. Only time will tell.   My overall view of the automotive industry in the US is actually pretty bleak. Fearing that we'll all be driving disposable vehicles from China in 10 years and what we knew of the Big 3 will be nothing but a memory. But what do I know, I am just an aging motor head in fintech.

Do they make pickups and vans?

Europe was never very profitable Europe 2015 profit    $131M 1.8% margin   Stop quoting revenue and sales volume without profit and profit margins.    

Fair points. It's hard to say. I think a V8 powered mustang sedan would do a better job at speaking to hardcore traditionalists, but it makes me wonder how that affordable RWD EV sedan fits into things. It seems like the author thinks it could be an EV, but I agree a s650 based sedan is more likely. 

"Now tell me how Toyota and VWs commercial business compares to Ford Pro......."   Ever hear of Daihatsu, Hino, Scania, MAN, and International right here in our own back yard?

In the US, the previous Escape used to outsell the RAV4, but by the time the refresh came sales have slipped. The current Gen model did worse. The Fusion was a strong seller till they killed it.   In Europe previous Ford Fiesta and Focus models were the top 2 best selling models. Economies of scale. High volume = profits. When Ford left them out to die, rivals overtook them. The Explorer EV and Capri did much worse.    Ford does not disclose how much they make per model but the fact that their annual revenue (adjusted for inflation) was much higher in 2015 than it was in 2025.   Ford Global annual revenue 2015: $149.6B ($201.5 adjusted to 2025 usd) 2025: $187.3B   Ford Nort America annual revenue  2015: $93.8B ($126.4B adjusted to 2025 usd) 2025: $125B   Ford Europe annual revenue 2015: $28.2B ($38B adjusted to 2025 usd) 2025: $21.5B      

Keep in mind the Ecoboost Mustang starts at $32K, so having an S650 sedan that costs less then 40K won't be really hard to do. Yeah once you put a V8 in it and add options it will go over 50K easy.    IMO I don't think an EV "Mustang Sedan" would make much sense. Ford has repeatedly said it will keep the V8 in production as long as it can and even though CO2 and CAFE restrictions are gone for now, a larger Sedan would help with CAFE in the future with the ICE Mustang. I can see the S650 getting one more major update in the next couple of years to keep it viable for another 10 years and it would include the sedan and hybrid options.    But given all the conflicting information about a Mustang RWD CUV coming also, who knows. Maybe we will get both a sedan and a CUV? But I think the EV Sedan rumor is its own entity.