Well sheesh. There ya go. Yep, 8ft bed is the 176in wheel base. Weird how its not compatible. If at all, post delivery or just from the factory. 

Oooooh someone’s getting fired for that one! 

As someone who clearly does a lot of special orders for a living you already know the answer, Simplicity. The amount of ways you can option a Bronco at one point matched or exceeded (depending on who you talked to) what they build at Dearborn. 

Ahhh, OK, that makes sense.

CAFE being a factor wouldn't surprise me. From the store levels, I didn't have too many people opting for the 6.8 when the 7.3 was a minimal jump in price on the Super Duty.   I do miss the "all the engines on all the trims" path we used to have. Seriously, what's the harm in offering the V6 on the Big Bend, if that's what the customer wants? And we moved a LOT of V6 Big Bends.   That's what the tech specs sheet reads for the 2026 Bronco family, and the 26 Ranger Raptor shows aluminum as well. Yet when I pull up the 27 specs on Explorer and F-150, the 3.0L shows CGI block. I suspect the Raptor family is getting an aluminum block to save some weight.

Exactly. Plus the burden of hauling a heavy and depleted battery. A Ranger weighs around 4500 lbs. A Shark 6 is around 6000 lbs. That Shark is burdened with the extra weight of 7.5 dudes.

The difference is that a conventional hybrid has the mechanical connection to the wheels, whereas an EREV has the losses associated with converting mechanical energy to electrical and back to mechanical.

The 2.7L uses CGI for the block and the 3.0L is Al, correct?  Could be some cost savings as well.

I want my Mustang Sedan to sound like the Hypercar when it goes from electric to ICE 😛 

Hear me out. Ford's pushing the race to road strategy very hard right now. They're very proud and open about the fact that the le mans hypercar uses a 5.4 V8. We've seen other brands use a tweaked version of their hypercar engines in road cars, Ferrari for one.    What if Ford is planning on releasing a hypercar derived 5.4 for a mustang? Either a new engine for an existing model, or a new performance model within the mustang brand. That would be pretty badass.