IS that your Maverick?

Yes, I think that is a very safe bet. It was also to put pressure on the Australian government:   https://www.carexpert.com.au/car-news/ford-ceo-warns-ranger-engineering-could-leave-australia-without-changes-to-regulations-661391   Love the "hairdressers and bankers" comment.   https://www.chasingcars.com.au/news/car-industry/ranger-and-everest-development-team-under-threat-as-ford-seeks-australian-government-support/   "we have to have a good plan for Australia.” ==> F-100

The RAM EREV is following the same pattern as the RAM BEV with these multiple delays. It will not surprise me if it is ultimately canned like the BEV was. RAM has rediscovered Hemi V8s and they can sell those.

Where do you guys make up this stuff?    RX is $53k - $73k.   Nautilus is $53k - $77k.   

Also having two products under the Ranger (Maverick/Fathom) is going to make pricing the Ranger more difficult   I think the decision to make the F-100 was done when Farley went to Australia back at the start of the year

I think we've all been on board that train of it'd be better to use CD6.  But until recently, the CD6 approach for Edge/Nautilus was canned in favor of the version we got, which as sales have shown works for a lot of customers (and would've for Edge too).  For whatever reason, that approach has seemingly changed back to trying something RWD, and CD6 is the only platform they have to meet that.  There has to be some reason behind it, unless it just broadly fits under the "passion/no boring products" umbrella?     FWIW, Borg's response was:   I'm not aware of additional vehicles on CD6 tbh, is that a thing? I don't know the state of the off-roading Mustang either now that the 4-Door Mustang is just a RWD Hybrid. I have good reason to believe CD6 won't survive the next-gen Explorer/Aviator at least. It does sound like Lincoln has a new slogan, "Elegant Force" instead of "Quiet Flight". I guess they are focusing on more performance powertrains for Lincoln....kinda like they use to.   But ExplorerDude has been more reliable, so I'd trust his info over Borg's info.

Interesting....   Basically they didn't feel like it lol.   There's got to be some reason .....probably some combo of ATPs, Maverick sales, production allocation, profits etc....   ....or just the general "it's Ford".....

https://gmauthority.com/blog/2026/09/next-gen-silverado-md-taking-shape-our-exclusive-details/   Makes sense to do their class 4 and 5 in house and if the go larger do that truck with a partner.

My biggest issue with the Nautilus is that it directly competes with the Lexus RX, yet its pricing can reach very nice BMW X5 money.  Potentially going on the CD6 platform can help justify the pricing if they of course invest in better powertrains, etc.