Obligatory, patent images don't necessarily hint at future designs, but I believe this latest patent image gives us our best look yet at the CE1 truck. It carries over the cab forward proportions of the other patents, but looks far much flushed out in terms of details, and actually looks stylized.    The first few cab forward patent images looked like pretty generic cab forward proposals, this looks like the kind of design I could actually see Ford releasing.    I quite like it. This is about as good as a cab forward looking truck could look imo. 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DO1KydlCG3L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link   This is Dearborn. Willy Clay Ford what are your thoughts? 

Separate sources suggest not for North America (tariffs for one) but Europe seams likely but would require a decent ICE product to justify a high-end engine….could all be wishful thinking.

No way in hell on that I'd say. But the overall shape and styling, I can see making it to production. 

Recipe for disaster. I think high end vehicles are a nice sweetener, I fully support the mustang GTD, or bronco raptor, or gt as vehicles which are both highly profitable, but also boost Ford's reputation as a badass enthusiast brand. I fully believe Ford has a real future in building a strong base around higher margin iconic products.    But I also believe Ford needs to have a more balanced approach. It sounds like CE1 is gonna be a hero of epic proportions, but Ford needs to go even further beyond that with things like more c2 offerings.    Especially as it looks increasingly likely that we're gonna head into a recession in the near future. Affordable offerings are extremely important right now. The maverick is great, but we need more of that with affordable crossover, SUV, van, sedan, hatchback, and coupe offerings. 

Same model as the Las Vegas Strip has adopted,? Elimination of middle class customers by making everything more expensive and just rely on fewer but more wealthy patronage.  

I think that is correct (at least for my use case). The Escape PHEV provides for a very efficient driving experience when it defaults to hybrid mode (after battery depletion). We almost always get over 40 mpg during highway driving in this state. And I think driving is this mode is where EREVs will not compare well to PHEVs.

A Boxer 4 would be cool, but expect they will use an inline-4 even if laying on its side (horizontal cylinders) to keep height down.  With expected DOHC design and variable valve timing, an inline engine should cost considerably less due to fewer parts.

It’s interesting that Ford mentioned suspending Lightning production as a way of freeing up more aluminum for other F Series trucks, that’s a tell on profitability.

Good point often overlooked.   With lots of zero pollution zones in European cities, people might be charging their PHEVs but forced to run in charge sustain until they use the battery charge inside these zones and then return home with depleted battery. Using PHEVs that way could be normal in Europe and completely different to how say, American would use them..