Yea, a prop rod to hold up the hood is one de-contenting item that Mustang hasn't been hit by for 2026. At the rate things are goin', don't be surprised though if the big shots at Ford end up switching from the two gas struts holdin' up the hood in the photo below with a single prop rod in 2027...  

Actually, Ford has made sincere efforts at managing water use. As for its efforts to control money spending, that's another matter entirely    

Is that a rhetorical question Bob Rosadini my friend? 😄   I think you know the answer. Neither look ahead nor well thought out plan are phrases that the big shots at Ford understand.

Uh, from Ford?   

American auto mfrs. which are really just Ford and GM, will be irrelevant in 5 to 10 years. Get ready for it.

It reminds me of the time when Farley wasn’t the CEO and he projected the Flex to sell 100000 units a year and we all know they never even close to achieve those numbers. Way too optimistic projections based on EVs at this time. 

On the other hand, would you expect Ford to admit that they were considering partnering with the Chinese?  I'm of the "where's there's smoke, there's fire" line of thinking.  Ford very well may have talked to the Chinese, about something.  Who knows what.

Thank God, that would have been so idiotic for them to do. 

Yes, let me clarify my stance, When you look at what Ford is talking about,  there are some all new models planned plus a load of refreshes Combine them all together and you have a decent amount  of what most consider new product but what I’m talking  about is all new vehicles and that is what Ford normally delivers at that one per year rate I mentioned earlier.   Arguably, Ford now has a lot riding on the new mid sized BEV, the last thing they will do is drop it like a hot potato but, if it doesn’t catch buyer imagination sales could end up like the Mach E…. and then what?

Ford denies report that it plans to build EVs in the US with China’s Xiaomi