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You, @Jimrpa, and I are like that. The executives of 2 Fortune 100 companies I did business with were anything but efficient with the company’s money. They didn’t look at it as their money. They were spending someone else’s money. I have no doubt the Chinese car companies are behaving exactly...

Camouflage and built in distractors are very effective at hiding lines and dimensions. Wait until December, January, or February when they unveiling is held to see what it really like. Until then, we’re just speculating.

Right you are. The planets were apparently all in alignment this morning at 9:45 am HST. It downloaded and installed while I was in the grocery store. It cycled through an adaptive braking alert which went away fairly quickly and managed to switch my headlights to on from auto. Nothing else...

If you’re driving a standard range built in 2021 or 2022, its an NCM battery and this doesn't apply. If you’re driving a standard range built in 24 or later, it’s an LFP battery and this very much applies. 23s are wobblers. Look at the car’s VIN. If the 8th character is a 4 or 5, you have an...

Yup, more than half of the 2025 Maverick U.S. sales were hybrids. Roughly 80,000 of the 155,000. Another thought in this early (for me) Thursday morning. What if they call it the F-100 instead of a Ranchero? ;)

The term people are complaining about is actually common boilerplate among manufacturers. Legal departments write this stuff up as worst case scenario protection, owners tend to read it as a design spec. Courts don’t ordinarily let any company get away with a waiver placed in a website or an app...

Ford has their own “system.” It’ll get here when all the planets align. I actually got the update with no name on Monday.

Unfortunately, owners of 2025 and 2026 model year mach-e’s don't have complete access to data from an OBD reader and app as the canbus has been encrypted. They can still pull codes and get very basic data, I believe, but nothing like ‘24 and earlier owners can. So that’s not the option it once...

Sometimes. Sometimes not:

I got the no name update yesterday morning, nothing since though..

He was one of more than 74,000 in 2022 and would’ve been 1 of more than 155,000 if he had bought last year. The market for inexpensive cars is not small.

Personally, I rather doubt there will be various bed lengths available. The automotive industry has been moving away from that for almost 15 years now. While there is a market, and larger than they might think, for larger beds on a midsize truck, the manufacturers know what sells the most...

I wouldn’t call it a city truck, nor a toy truck, although I think I understand your perspective on that. LFP batteries are a reality. Energy dense and low cost high voltage batteries aren’t a real thing just yet. Low cost vehicles are reality. The Maverick, for example, sold 155,000 units in...

I’d be asking if the quality hold and stop ship are VIN specific or population wide. If there’s a VIN specific hold (your car only) then it could be a failed inspection, missing module, damaged component or some sort of rework required. That could take days or weeks. if it’s population-wide...

TOU = Time of Use. Many utilities have variable pricing depending upon when you use power. EVSE = Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment. We all call them chargers, but the reality is the charger is part of the car. The EVSE supplies AC power to the car. The car converts that to DC to charge the...

Well no. Those are incompatible goals when carried to an extreme. But I get your point. In any event, recent news release show Ford positioning the truck as a lifestyle vehicle. Yes, it can haul bags of mulch from Home Depot. A short board surfboard placed diagonally would (barely) fit in a 4.5...

Define tow. Its a snallish truck. Odds are extremely high it has LFP batteries. Of course it can taw. But how much and how far? Also recent comments indicate its being positioned as a lifestyle vehicle, not a workhorse.

These aren’t 1 month from reveal prototypes. They are much closer to what the final form will be though. Also keep in mind that manufacturers are known to disguise features to avoid revealing too much about the design. This can easily include lowering the truck as @Mach-Lee pointed out...

I would not get too hung up on this. There are at least two very different types of test vehicles with quite different camouflage. The first is a software development vehicle testing out software and firmware changes. Those do not necessarily have to be the final body design. They can be earlier...

It’s modified Ranger on decoy duty masquerading as a prototype mule. ;) In other news, it has a 5.5 ft bed. :p Seriously, the camouflage is designed to hide all this stuff and make speculation meaningless.