If Ford had any real leadership, they would mostly scrap their EV plans and start making cars like the Taurus and Escort again. You know - cars that sold and worked.
We had a F.O.R.D. Escort, it didn’t work. Its only real virtue was a good paint job and it was light.
The paint job meant it looked good in the driveway; and being light meant it was easy to push.
Uncomfortable, unreliable, and poorly designed. Just an awful automobile
Around the mid 90’s when the new Taurus came out the car magazines were going mental about how great they were.
So I talked my parents into buying one.
They got a new green Mercury Sable.
So sweet...
Turned into ti biggest POS that they ever owned.
Still give me grief over it.
Been nothing but Toyota and Honda ever since and ZERO problems.
Great idea but for one little problem: all this electronic monitoring and cloud access in vehicles is MANDATED by the FedGov. Right down to the “push button start” *feature* (that I loathe).
Then there’s the whole EPA/fuel efficiency boondoggle.