I was reading this thread over at 6G   (49) 2026 Bronco Badlands - First Impressions (and Changes vs. 2023 Badlands) | Bronco6G - 2021+ Ford Bronco & Bronco Raptor Forum, News, Blog & Owners Community     Apparently Bronco has also lost homelink and the zone lighting on the mirrors.   I verified it with the '26 order guide.     The removal of features is ridiculous.

I agree.  They just don't look as nice as they used to.   I actually saw recently some articles on this concept, and though the extra graphics and grille/headlight details look bad, I actually really like the shape of the vehicle.   Mercedes Secretly Modernized The Original AMG Super Sedan  

If they haven't replied in 25 years, I don't think they're going to.  😄

I wonder how much this will change since people aren't stuck at home like where where in 2022. I'm going to assume people's "free time" has gone down since then. 

I guess there are other things someone could do - is song writing your full time job or something you do as a hobby? 

I didn't know where to post this but this is a good a place as any. Did you know there'll always be a FORD in FlORiDa?!  I had a gf named FLO in FLOrida. But she moved so I dated LORI in fLORIda. We broke up so I went out with IDA in florIDA. But then she moved to IDAho. (And no she wasn't!!!) I write songs so I notice word and letter play. But somebody who doesn't play the lottery will win it before any of my songs get recorded by anyone. I sent my TALE OF DALE EARNHARDT tribute song I wrote in 2001 to 20 entities and only former NASCAR race car driver Darrell Waltrip has replied so far.

Consumer interest in the 2022 Ford Maverick has proven to be quite strong since the compact pickup was revealed back in June. A grand total of 36,000 Ford Maverick reservations were secured in the first week they were available, and more than doubled to 80,000 just a few weeks later. Things haven't slowed down since then, and the automaker has now garnered 100,000 Ford Maverick reservations, according to the Detroit Free Press.   https://fordauthority.com/2021/08/2022-ford-maverick-reservations-surpass-100k-as-production-begins/

But people do WANT all those trucks and SUVs and  mustangs contrary to what you and Biker16 think.  Nobody is forcing consumers into those vehicles.   They stopped making cars because their costs were never optimized so they weren't profitable and Ford found better options.  

And that was the last time the prices of cars actually were lowered for the masses....these days, any efficiencies wrung out of new processes will be used to "enhance investor value"....Henry famously bristled at outsider stock ownership of his company and famously went on a buying spree to gather as much "common stock/shares" to regain control of the company that bore his name....business practices you will never see in our lifetimes ever again. 

It's only a loss until demand catches up with supply. Jim Farley eluded to this. I think the industry spent too much time trying to build a completely new type of vehicle with methods that don't suit the technology. How much money did Henry Ford lose between 1895 when he started on the Quadracycle prototype and the time that the assembly line-produced 1908 Model T started making money? It was only after Ford adopted the assembly line to build cars that they became affordable to the masses.  We are at that crossroads now where robotics, AI, giga-casting et al promises to make electric vehicles truly affordable.