I had a random thought-it looks to me to be in a very general shape of the MKX/Edge-the thing on the D pillar/rear window is there just to throw off people    

Why would they have to pay for a name they came up with? Unless they sold it like they did with GT40

I don't know if they have to pay rights fees for the Mach 1 name, they're hellbent on dropping any names they have to pay for.

I guess maybe I'm also comparing it to the F-150 that I think has an assist on it

I still don't see why a "Mach 1" variant wouldn't make sense. They were high-content Mustangs, so a premium model with the 5.4 and interior upgrades seems like an easy package with heritage references.

Yea, the Honda plant in Greensburg, IN is completely maxed out. The new plant in neighboring Ohio explains why Honda has no further expansion plans for the existing Indiana facility. The Plant Lead there said the following after CR-V TrailSport was allocated to Greensburg:   Plant Lead Roxanna Metz says the Greensburg facility is at capacity, and that the TrailSport will be in the CR-V population that is included in the plant’s 1-thousand-vehicle-a-day production.   “So we are at full capacity,” Metz said. “We can run 250-thousand vehicles a year and that’s what we do.”   Metz adds, despite adding production of the TrailSport, there are no plans at this time to expand the Greensburg facility.  

I'm having a hard time pinpointing what vehicle body that is.

Honda joins the list of OEMs announcing new plants in the U.S.:  

I don’t know what an aluminum version of the current one would feel like but having held both steel and aluminum versions of the old one in my hands the difference in weight wasn’t that much. 

That explains why the tailgate feels so heavy (relatively speaking) on the Ranger when I've opened/closed it at shows/in the showroom.