It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that tucking S650 under CD6 wing to cover some of the costs and supplier modules   and see this is where derivatives vs differentiation comes into play, coupe needs different features to sedan but that doesn’t mean they can’t be close cousins. When it comes to a properly differentiated model, it’s better to have a Miquelon design.  

it all depends on if they can actually make a good coupe out of it. It seems like going from a sedan platform to coupe hasn't worked out that great (see last gen Camaro)   The D2C platform will be 25+ years old at that point anyways. 

These are hard concepts for some people to understand.   On the first point about not taxing business, I will give you an example.  Missouri is working to eliminate income tax.  Personally, I think it's a bad idea.  One plan I've heard to recover some of the lost revenue is to tax services.  I run a service-based company.  I don't sell things, I sell my time.  Under this new scenario, I will have to charge tax on the work I do (I've heard as high as 10%).  Since I can't just eat 10%, guess what I'm going to do?  You guessed it...I'm going to pass that on to my customers.  How many of those customers will I lose because they don't like an increase of 10%?  Now, my customers are all business, but think about the guy who sprays your house for bugs.  Or the guy that works on your car.  Who's going to pay those taxes?  You guessed it...individuals!

You can't tax a company because they pass all taxes to their consumers and we actually pay them.  The company still makes the same profit.  You can't overtax the wealthy because they'll take their wealth elsewhere and you lose the folks that contribute the majority of income tax.   Wealth is not income.  If I own 50 rental houses my net worth might be $50M, but my actual net income after maintenance and property taxes might only be $500k and that's what I pay taxes on.  I can't pay additional taxes on the $50M house assets unless I sell a house.  Same for stocks.

https://www.pacificresearch.org/wealth-taxes-are-economic-failures/

Exactly!  Don't be jealous of others' success, be happy for them and appreciate what they bring to the table.  In this case, lots and lots of jobs, and the taxes paid by the people in those jobs!   I've heard this analogy before.   A class takes a test and Mr. Smart Guy gets 100%.  Great, he put in the extra effort, worked the extra problems and did well. Johnny, who didn't study much and went out with his buddies the night before, ended up with a 50%, an F.  Now, in order to make sure everyone passes, the teacher decided to give Johnny 10% of Mr. Smart Guy's score.  Johnny then has a passing grade.  Mr. Smart Guy still gets and A, so that should be fine with him, right.  His GPA won't look any different.   Guess what's going to happen on the next test?  Mr. Smart Guy is going to say "F it!" and not study.  Let somebody else do the work and get the points that I can share in.   This is my alternate scenario.  Mr. Smart Guy gets 100%, Johnny fails with a 50%, and poor Jane gets a 50% as well.  Jane worked her tail off and did the best she could, but she was sick.  She couldn't focus, and just didn't have the energy to keep going.  The teacher says "you can give as many points as you want to anybody."  So, Mr. Smart Guy gives Jane 10%.  It brings her up a level, and keeps her from needing to retake the course.  She goes on to Excel and repays the favor 10x over.  

What is happening in California is not an income tax. It is called a wealth tax but what it really is simply wealth confiscation (theft). Entrepreneurs that become fabulously wealthy by building amazing companies are not stealing from you or anyone else. They are creating new wealth, making the economic pie bigger, and creating hundreds of thousands of high paying jobs. We need a lot more of these amazing people.   You are fixated on how unfair it is and believe these billionaires are the source of your woes. I don't know what to tell you other than to go out there, work your tail off and build an amazing company like most of these billionaires did. But be forewarned, these guys work 24/7, are incredibly driven, skipped having traditional personal lives and have no work-life balance. Very few people are willing to do that. 

I think that's the main thing.  Lincoln can't be happy with keeping their current customers, they need to expand to bring in more, new customers to the brand.

I used Google Gemini. It’s good at understanding what you want out of an image. You should try it out!   Personally I can see the appeal in a Lincoln with more ruggedness (durability) inside and out. Especially for travelers who frequent lakes, beaches, mountains, etc.    Vehicle like the new GX can sell on looks alone but the idea of capability/prowess compared to a unibody crossover attracts people as well 

I don't know why so many believe that taxing billionaires will hurt them. This isn't a fair fight anymore. Corporations are writing governement policy, and carving out exemptions and Pushing privatiztion of  There are only 3,000 billionaires in the world, 1,135 in the US.  %0.000036 of the World population  %.00037 of the US population   Collectively, the wealthiest 1% held about $55 trillion in assets in the third quarter of 2025 — roughly equal to the wealth held by the bottom 90% of Americans combined. Taxes on billionaires will never impact you because you will never be a billionaire.  History has shown this level of inequality, and "Wealth Hording" resolves itself through reforms or revolution.  This isn't Sustainable