Your reading this completely wrong-there is going to be a smaller van that replaces the gap left from when it wasn't tenable to keep importing the Transit Connect due to chicken tax. This info was posted almost 2 months ago and no news outlet has said the transit is going anywhere.    There was talk of an EV van for both markets and that is what they are talking about.   This product is one of the 5 affordable ones that has been in the news.   Not to mention the Transit is made in Kansas and not Ohio

I think the significant thing is the NA Transit and the EU Transit will go their separate ways, and I will wager the NA Transit will be a larger commercial oriented van.  This will probably spell the end of the E-Series.   Chassis-cab production will continue at Avon Lake too, at least the Super Duty 250-600 models.

Yea, it's definitely a misbuild for an Explorer ST to have 4WD logo on the liftgate. The Ford dealership nearest to me in Martinsville, IN has a '26 Explorer ST 4WD on their lot, and it has an ST logo on the liftgate as it should:  

And Apple and Rivian and several other high tech companies.  Not just Tesla.  This is what gives me hope that ce1 will be truly revolutionary.

I'll add the low swooping hood almost makes it look like top of the grille lines up more or less with the top of the wheel arches more or less, a much lower front end than a conventional maverick. I've marked the photos below so you can see things like what I believe is the shape of a wheel arch, and character like on the covered design, and how the leading edge of the grille in the clay model seems to line up with the peak of the fender flare more or less. 

So just trying to piece together the design to the best of our knowledge using press material so far. We know that close up is the front of the truck now, with a sealed grill, and an angled hood. Many of us also believe this clay model is the truck, so it gives us a better idea of the overall proportions. I also believe this fender is the truck, or at least, very similar to what the truck will have. It has that horizontal hood look closer to the windshield that we know the truck has, because the reaction vid shows us that portion of the hood isn't that angled, but then also swoops down near the leading edge like we can see in the close up. 

Borg is claiming the sub 40k car is the mustang sedan. So I wonder if the sedan is gonna be this affordable EV sedan after all, or if the mustang sedan will co-exist with another affordable EV rwd sedan that goes by a different name like escort, falcon, or Galaxie. 

Yet Farley is still employed. 

As someone who owns an Escape and rented several BS, I concur.  They are not the same.  It has to be stretched if they want that to happen.