While Borg was right on some things, he was wrong on others. He has lately been incorrectly referring to the production location of the Ranger-replacement BOF Bronco truck as 'Kentucky Truck Plant', which actually builds the Super Duty trucks and Expy/Navi SUVs. He's done this a few times. In fact, he recently started a new thread regarding this topic at GMI, where he mentioned the 'new mothballed Kentucky Truck Plant' instead of properly saying 'newly-renamed Tennessee Truck Plant.' It appears he's confused about two separate truck plants, as well as possibly being confused about the fact that the Louisville Assembly Plant being retooled to soon build the CE1 pickup.   But regarding the topic, though, I'm actually excited for this! The whole CE1 skunkworks project soon coming to full fruition, these five new vehicles, new multi-energy Super Duty trucks soon to be built at OAC, the van at OHAP, possible Mustang Mach 4 sedan, and something in Mexico in place of Bronco Sport. I'm sure there's more coming that's not even announced yet. Then there's the redesigns and major updates of existing vehicles. The ICE F-150, for instance, is set to get a whole new next generation at some point, which is likely what the F-150 EREV will be based on. So I'm looking forward to see what will be coming soon!

Midsized truck. The Maverick is considered compact IIRC 

Yep, read 2wd less off road oriented and cheaper....

Ford absolutely blew the Ranger...it went from two body styles and two bed lengths and a base of 28k to One body style, a small bed only , too much content and expensive ( Starting at 35k )....good truck but when I drive into a clients lot and see a lineup of Nissans and ask why...the answers were pretty glaring....its also dating pretty quickly...

The flex yes Mkt no so much so was mostly livery and hearses 

One thing is for sure: By already making a move on its plan to shrink its footprint in the international EV supply chain, the big shots at Stellantis are shootin' their employer in the foot and weakening its competitive position now and in the future

I give the engine people at Ford tremendous credit for creating the Coyote V8, given the original constraint that Jim Clark was working with. He was required to built an engine that would power both future F150’s and fit into transverse front wheel luxury Lincolns. This limited the bore centers to about 100 mm and compromised how large the engine family could become on the other end. Nevertheless, ford created a great engine with the current 5 liter utilizing the transfer lines designed for 100 mm bore centers and probably saved the Mustang platform along the way. Yes, you may be right that taking the trip to smaller bores and longer strokes may not be worth it but I am sure there is someone at Ford that has studied exactly that if for no other reason than understanding what other OEM’s might just do! rdselford

RAV4 is a compact while Ford tells us that  CE1 is midsized…

I would be curious to see the failure rates on 3.5 water pumps for earlier models compared to later model years. My 2017 was pretty much at the end of the lifespan for the 3.5 and I believe by that point, it was a pretty rock solid engine.    Just due to the nature of it being older with higher mileage, you're gonna see more stories of older 3.5s having issues, but I would be curious to see what the failure rate of a 2017/18 3.5 water pump is at 80k miles compared to what the failure rate for a 2009 3.5 would have been at 80k miles, but I don't know how we would access that data. 

Given that Ford has been saying it will have more interior room than a Rav4, a short hood would seem to be necessary to achieve that.