Ford has had throttle by wire in production for over 20 years. I don’t know if they had it earlier, but throttle by wire was one of the big changes for  the ‘03 Lincoln LS. It was a topic of discussion, if not a bone of contention, back in the day. 

My BMW R1250GS Adventure has throttle by wire and I like it much better than the cable system on my Goldwing as it is not as hard on the old wrist, and also allows for different throttle mapping depending on if you want spirited riding, just cruising, or rain riding to reduce chances of spinning the wheels and ending up on the pavement.

Sort of name-related, but I was watching a David Freiburger video yesterday, and he showed a ‘61 Comet. Not a Mercury Comet, just a Comet. It was developed for Edsel right before McNamara shuttered the brand, and it was too late to kill it, so they turned it into its own marque for a couple of years.    He even showed the manufacturer’s plate on the door showing the Comet marque and pointed out that the C on the badge was just the Edsel “E” without the center bar. 

Has anyone heard anything more on truck to be built at Tennessee°? it sounds more like a placeholder while they get something in there.

Yeah sorry, I’m laid up at the moment with a bad viral infection and pain killers, my brain and typing is really suspect at the moment    I meant late 2027 for possible CE1  production launch as a reason why were not yet within that 12 mont zone before release…   Sometimes there are no explanations……

It doesn't integrate with Alexa either, otherwise I could use that.  All this functionality and the money grubbing bastards refuse to offer it.

That is all on fucking Blackstone (who owns it) and it annoys the hell out of me that they don't want to integrate with apple ecosystem to add a button, so they can get whatever profit they can from it. Not sure how they have their deal with Amazon, but I'm guessing they are paying for it. 

That may be where they are going with it.  They'll still have to pay for the hardware to interact with the opener unless it's completely software such as an integration with MyQ and others.  Now, if I could get MyQ to work with CarPlay, I would be less upset.  

Wow did you all forget your Foci history... Yes, Mazda5, Premacy, Focus, Focus C-Max, I-Max, same platform.  The Asian market had the I-Max name, that's all....No it wouldn't compete with the Sienna, or Oddity... This is Transit Connect sized "C" platform.  My friend had the Mazda5.  She loved it, it really served smaller families (meaning, size-wise, she and her tribe are smaller skinnier people).  132K trouble free miles, my only complain about it was it needed a good 30HP more. She then flowed to an '16 Edge 2.7LT V6 and has never gone back to lower power.

I think it boils down to that the cost of it might be the issue-Ford can't make a profit or as much profit on it due to costs? Or who knows it might be part of the move to make a software defined architecture and be able to charge for it down the road?