Of course it is. It wasn’t when I read it 😒

Every time I raised the question his reply was it was never requested by North America. North America paid for development of Bronco and as the lead T6.2, it also picked up all the costs with gasoline engine packages.  

Indeed, RAV4and its hybrid version are very popular in Australia, so hoping change to low Sulfur fuels in December opens the door to more products for Australia 

This is where all the money derived from decontenting is going🤣

In the Philippines it gets a Hybrid (non-plugin) powertrain, it's a series-parallel type with a 215hp electric motor paired to a 148hp 1.5 turbo. Ford Territory Hybrid Titanium X: Premium SUV | Ford PH

Typical Ford planning...nothing has changed in 30+ years LOL But in all seriousness, it was the first product to launch the modular 4.6L 4v V8, which most likely accounted for its delay, and I think the 4.6 first came out in 1990 Crown Vic. The other factor was the Fox platform getting updated to the SN95 in 1994...  

Oops I must have clicked on mark viii by mistake.

I don't read the Free Press, but an article in the Detroit News about the Glass House said that Bill Ford was in a room once when part of the ceiling came down.

Correct. The Fox based Mark VII's last year of production was 1992 which seems a bit odd since the first year for the MN-12 platform as used under the T-Bird and Cougar was 1989 and the Mark VIII, which also used the MN-12 platform, didn't come out until 1993.

You're right. One of the good things about this being a 1989 model is that that was the last year for the AOD 4-speed auto which means that it still has a cable driven speedometer and minimal electronic controls. That should make it easier to correct the speedometer for my planned tire change because the speedometer cable still uses a plastic gear on the end of the cable where it plugs into the trans and those gears come in various tooth counts. That might not even be necessary since there is only .5" difference in tire overall diameters. 1990 was the first year for the AODE in the Mark VII and the speedometer was also fully electronic.