I was responding to Akirby, but I see where you're coming from. A 2 door coupe definitely isn't gonna be the most practical thing in the world. 

Thx...Hard to believe, 57 years ago!

Because as well as some of those AI designs may look - sometimes you just gotta touch it, smell it, and feel it...no AI design could ever do all that.

I'd consider another down the road.  It just wasn't a practical vehicle to have as a single vehicle.....it worked fine when I had the Flex (which was long paid off) for "usefulness" like getting larger items, but on its own it didn't make sense to have, and the Bronco offered sort of a combo of an SUV and convertible.  I don't recall ever specifically mentioning a 69-70 (might be mixing me up with someone else), but that could be a neat idea.

Would you ever consider buying a mustang with how much you like them, either a 1970 or something more modern? We've discussed how Ford could evolve the mustang's design moving forward, and I believe you said you would like to see s750, or whatever it ends up being called, pull styling cues from the 69-70.    I could see that direction working well if they execute it the right way. 

Because it's not very good lol. Even our best renderings are just Lincoln grilles on boxy SUVs. The issue with AI is it can't replicate that spark, that creativity, that new design that human designers can. All it can do is pull from a pre-existing same of designs. I asked it to render me a muscle car done in the Italian design style, and it just gave me a mustang with a Maserati badge.    I see AI being really useful for right ideation and communicating a basic idea. I can see a world where like the film industry uses AI to outline a film as an evolution of the storyboarding processes they currently use, and other things like that. But it's not good at producing quality end of line creations.    I see manufacturing and engineering being replaced by AI moreso than design. There's a startup, and their name eludes me, it's called like Cziengler or something. They used AI to engineer a lot of the chassis components on their supercar giving it parameters for weight, stiffness, and cost, and it quickly created an effective suspension design that meets all that criteria. 

I looked at it the other way.....sure it's cool what it can do, but some of them are sad looking lol.

Sorry, should've clarified.....I only have the Bronco now.   I sold my Flex privately in January of 2022 with 150-something thousand miles on it.  I had reserved/ordered the Bronco and its delivery was on the horizon, so I took advantage of elevated car pricing at the time and got like $7,800 or something like that......I felt that was pretty good for a 13 year old vehicle!   I then traded the Mustang in on the Bronco when I got it in March of '22.  It wasn't paid off, so it wasn't worth keeping to have 2 car payments like that by myself at the time.  I miss its lovely noises though haha.

No comment on these designs, but I wonder why OEM's even bother to have a design studio?  All you have to do is have AI design a vehicle.  Some of these renderings are pretty good.

I think this has become a hidden profit center for Ford and is excessive. It certainly didn’t cost $1700 to ship our Explorer that we recently got from Chicago to our dealer. I understand they are average costing it for CONUS, but even privately shipping a vehicle doesn’t cost that much. Another way to lower the MSRP without actually lowering it.