If Ford wants to expand the Mustang line to include the long-rumored sports sedan, and also wants to lighten the cars to help performance and economy, maybe there's one more real update before the inevitable EV takeover....
It seems like they cut some serious corners on the Tundra. It's going into its 9th recall and the twin turbo V6 has had issues. In 2007 when the redesigned the Tundra it had a ton of recalls too.
By the way, just in case anyone is wondering, that 1.5L (once they fixed the issues) is a really nice engine for just a general all-around family car. My wife has that in her 2020, which is one from after those were fixed, and we're very happy with it. It's a good, solid engine, and we really like that car. I still prefer my Fusion Sport with the 2.7L twin-turbo V6, but I'll definitely stand up and say that 1.5L is a good engine for just general use.
Yes if I were in your situation, I would take the $2000 the dealer offered and not worry about it, like @HotRunrGuy said. The car is really old, has almost 200k miles on it, and has served you well but its time is up.
I did notice that F Series inventory is up to 211,000 so that could be a sign that Ford and dealers
are prepared to start doing deals with walk in customers.
Maybe part of the new strategy to go back to what works, pushing tin.
They also buy Jeeps, Toyota's, Tesla's, BYD's, Mercedes's ....etc. You always take a look at the competition and see what they're doing. All manufacturers do this.