While the Financial Times is a respected publication, at the same time that doesn't make them impeccable with whatever information they may or not publish.    I'd give this a couple of weeks to see if there is anything actually happening...but IMO I doubt it. 

While I understand the desire to utilize your resources, I feel like Ford helping Chinese players with becoming established is literally the exact sort of thing Farley was afraid of.    I feel like it would make more sense to just build a lot of different top hats using CE1, and if you still want to boost production beyond that, offer to sell this incredible universal EV platform to other legacy brands. Like offering to help let's say Honda build affordable EVs using your platform and plant. That's a smarter play than letting the wolf into the hen house so to speak imo. 

Ford deserves its fair share of criticism for its recent product cadence blunders.......however, market factors at the time are a major reason - BEV was being mandated, and companies responded.  Too soon?  Yeah, in hindsight, but they were trying to be at the forefront of the movement and not get left behind.  Unfortunately, that came at the expense of ICE products, instead of a slower, simultaneous development many of us advocated.

Their ass?

Why? I'm sure Ford went down that route during development and decided its not worth it.   Not to mention you'd have to develop completely new heads for it and it wouldn't be worth it. 

https://fordauthority.com/2026/02/ford-will-spend-6-billion-on-blueoval-sk-disposition/       Correct me if I'm wrong, the actual losses are just paper and not actual...

Where the hell did they get that number from? 

From today's Autoline Daily.  We'll see where this goes.   Last month President Trump told the Detroit Economic Club that he would welcome Chinese car plants in the U.S.  And now come reports that Ford has been talking to at least two Chinese automakers to form a joint venture to make EVs in the U.S. The Financial Times reports Ford was in talks with Xiaomi and BYD. We think the FT is a pretty reputable source, but Ford and Xiaomi deny they’re in talks while BYD declined to comment. Here’s our Autoline Insight. While nothing may come of this, it would be sensible for Ford to explore possible options with Chinese automakers. We keep looking at that $5 billion, 5-million square foot manufacturing facility that Ford is building, called Blue Oval City. Located in Tennessee, that plant is supposed to make 500,000 electric pickups a year, but right now it looks like it could be a financial disaster. However, with a Chinese partner on board that plant would come closer to its targets.        

I love the auto-dim in my 2020 Escape and my "new to me" 2024 F150.   My coworker says in the 2025 Lariat, Ford decontented the fog lights to be the same ones as the XLT.  So they don't  have the LED strip in them any more to match the Lariat LED running lights.

Found a spy shot 😛   https://fordauthority.com/2026/02/2000-ford-24-7-pickup-concept-designed-for-modern-lifestyles/