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Yes QC is critical on these vehicles for obvious reasons. All the testing and development is converged to this moment to make sure it’s ready for mass production. You get a freshly trained staff that are usually seasoned to begin with on this process. It’s not quite cherry picked as it’s still...

It does. I’ve used it many times during development. It’s not a secret feature they are sneakily omitting unless something has changed in the last two months. For XLT this would require the $1,560 Technology Package. Stop & Go is paired with Lane Centering, it cannot be excluded as far as I’ve...

I’ve been curious about this as well. When originally launched it was the luxury off-road trim in 2009 if I remember correctly. Bronco brought that trim idea to the US market but it’s interesting what’s going to develop from that considering the truck line has been Tremor focused. Ford has been...

Yes you’re jogging my memory and I have definitely remembered seeing “M” plates at EPA facilities.

If I’m correct, those have to be purchased the way any of us would purchase them.

I am in development so I’m just going through the definition terms on explaining it. I don’t know how the process works. I do know that our pre-production units in testing are not built at the factories, cannot be sold, and get crushed at the end of their life. I think how these work at least...

These are part of the Production Process Prove-Out Program. By requirement for all purposes they must be saleable units. These are milestone units just ahead of Job #1 called Integrated Build

I do not believe so I believe these are review and executive lot models

Friend sent me some photos from yesterday figured I’d share here.

I wish I knew but I never studied that close honestly. P703 is in the past for me so I would have to go hunting freelance.

US Rangers have Matrix headlights. No Ford didn't spend twice on the supplier to make two variants of the Performance LED Matrix headlights. It's just simply disabled or enabled via software depending on the market. The US is establishing guidelines for them and I'm sure a software update to...

Lariat and Raptor get the heated steering wheel as a standard feature. Auto-start stop also remains as of this moment. Ford hasn’t even started production yet. The feature lists, specs, and various technical data is still limited until that happens.

What will happen is what Ford has been already doing in other plants. Automation. Eliminate the human factors completely. Also as a salaried employee you’d be surprised how many of us, myself included, have to takeover for UAW errors

Very true. I just hope Ford upholds that policy amid restructuring due to negotiations

Can’t wait for Job 2 price increases

Ford has very few vehicles with electronic door releases. Currently it is the Mach-E which has electronic child safety locks instead of manual ones and that’s the only model pertinent to this scenario I can think of at the time with such an option. Lincoln Aviator uses electronic latches but...

Been hinted they are willing to strike regardless. A week long of ear bending just to prove their point and worth. The whole thing has been a nightmare. Agree with a demand and they want to change it for better.

It maintains that Herrod will cover the claim if it’s determined to be caused by their tune. Input torque ratings are extremely arbitrary in that they’re ratings from the extremes, mainly heat. The more power you put in the more heat it outputs due to energy conversion. It’s also based on...

35’s and a tune

They should have made up for the compromise with cooled seats honestly. Unreal that those were omitted for a 2024 model year in the headline trim.