I want to know about these Lincoln’s….is the roof like that as these are autonomous concept vehicles? Or something else? Odd there have two of them with these odd roofs and each have different body details.  https://www.mlive.com/business/2026/11/ford-vault-opening-first-look-inside-historic-collection-not-open-to-the-public.html?fbclid=IwdGRleAVkD_dleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mBWZkaWQWUSKR_x2pXn3Wjet-RaMk0-amdHbk23NydGMGYXBwX2lkDzE3Mzg0NzY0MjY3MDM3MAABH_yzE8QPtnqALUlWtevQ0aektOMIbA64cW4oi2Y7rTZ7pOE1bwtNLQG-frHb_aem_BRhw5gnyEFr1Z-3ePWiugQ&utm_campaign=mrf-facebook-mlive&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&mrfcid=202611136af6787a39477057a814aa42  

Which part are you referring to? The article or Gemini’s explanation or something else?

it looks pretty good especially for the segment.  Too bad we didn’t get it.   Not that it would’ve necessarily helped Focus’ fate

China only I’m sure

LMFAO! This is so incorrect. I have to laugh.. 

Yeah, I hate misspellings too. They lose my respect.

There are some very serious shortcomings in doing a true off road EV. Biggest one being, it's an EV. If your Bronco/Wrangler/whatever runs out of fuel on an off road run, you can bring a can to it, or have a can with you if you know you're going further than your fuel tank can take you. Can't exactly pack an extra battery on an EV.   If you're making an off road EV knowing it's never leaving pavement and civilization, then you're catering to the actual market but saying the quiet part out loud - most off road vehicle buyers never take their vehicle off the road. Now you've made an entire vehicle that's aimed squarely at the "poser" customer. Yes, they buy vehicles, and plenty of them, but it's different than making a real off road vehicle, isn't it?   A copy/paste from my comment on Ford Authority: "This kind of vehicle is going to attract the fickle buyers. I've had several of those. When a new, cool, different vehicle comes out, they trade off the last new, cool, different vehicle they'd picked up. If they keep the "toy" six months, you start asking them if that one is actually long term now. Had a guy bounce back and forth between Wranglers and Broncos repeatedly. Had another who got a Lightning, and from the day he picked it up was already planning to replace it with a Cybertruck he had on order, and then from there he was going to a Raptor R. Will there be some Bronco/Ford owners who trade for one of these? Sure. Will it deeply impact Ford sales? Probably not." Adding to that, some of these buyers are flipping for a profit. Those vehicles wind up getting purchased by a person here, titled, driven briefly, then sold rather than traded on the next toy. They're sold to a reseller who ships them to markets where you can't get these vehicles, at a huge markup. As a dealer, you have to not do business with those, because you can wind up in legal trouble, but as an individual? Gee, all I did was sell it to a company that made me a buy offer, just like Carvana does. One more thing for the morning - Ford has done some R&D on off road EV's. 2024 was a great year at the Chicago Auto Show (to me anyway). Ford brought the winning Bronco straight from King Of The Hammers and displayed it, dirt and damage and all. I got some great pictures of the Mustang GTD that was freshly out. Saw the F-150 Pro Access Tailgate for the first time - my wife figured out how to open it before I did. Volkswagen had the very first 1949 Type 1 "Beetle" ever brought to the US on display, right next to the wonderfully retro/modern iD Buzz... for some reason the VW folks didn't want to really deep dive into VW's history, the 40's, things like that. Subaru, bless their hearts, got caught in a photo painting dirt onto their display cars, which I immediately contrasted to Ford bringing actual race vehicles covered in dirt from being in dirt. Which brings me to this mutant RTR Switchgear Lightning. Taking a regular Lightning and adding a bunch of Raptor running gear, RTR ran this also at King Of The Hammers and brought it straight from that run to the show. Wash it? Not a chance. I think they cleaned up the nose a little bit maybe. When I looked at this thing, my thought was "this is Ford taking EV tech into racing, specifically off road racing, and that will help improve EV's down the line".

I almost bought one of those in 1999.  I just wanted something fun so I cross shopped cougar, a mustang gt and Lincoln LS.  Ended up getting the LS v8 sport.  Great car.  First one with select shift.   Funny story during that time - they were trying to get rid of Lincoln Blackwoods and had a promotion - buy a Blackwood at MSRP, get a free Cougar!

The 2026 F-Series Super Duty Chassis Cab Order Guide has been added to the Dealer Order Guides section. Thanks @abc26

2026 F-Series Super Duty Chassis Cab Order Guide View File 2026 F-Series Super Duty Chassis Cab Order Guide   NOTE: Ford is restricting sales of 6.7L Diesel (99T) on F-550 with Payload Plus Upgrade Package 2 (68H) and F-600 6.7L Diesel (99T) to customers for registration outside of California.   Additionally, Ford is restricting sales of F-550 6.7L Diesel (99T) with Payload Plus Upgrade Package 1 (68M) to customers for registration in California. Submitter ice-capades Submitted 11/14/2026 Category F Series Super Duty