Thread 28563022

ford is about to have it's 'model t moment'
https://www.fromtheroad.ford.com/us/en/articles/2025/get-ready-for-our-next-model-t-moment

so
universal skateboard EV platform
midsize ev truck
LFP batteries built in us

over under on how long until farley's firing?

an electric kit car platform would be sick
or a new line of electric sport bikes
anything else would be incredibly lame

>>28563022 (OP)
It's electric garbage isn't it? Ugh

>>28563039
>an electric kit car platform would be sick
they do sell the motor out of the mach-e as a crate engine already, it would be interesting if they offered a rolling chassis/battery

>>28563031
>skateboard platform
It’s not. It’s more like the PSA GAME system. It’s modular and easily adapted to different types of vehicles. It’s not locked in to a single skateboard-style platform with very limited floor height, width, and length.

The big news isn’t a shiny new EV truck model. It’s how it’s being produced. If they can actually deliver on the price (same price point as the Ranger, and they said it’s a midsize truck) that would be something.

Also Tesla was supposed to do this. Instead they went a different route and sunk everything into the Cybertruck. Their VP of production left… and went to Ford.

inb4
>a set of compact Crossovers to replace the current range (including the Maverick)
>considerably larger than their predecessors
>also 30-40% more expensive
>new modelnames to disguise the bloat and inflation just like with VW etc
>will break new records in depriciation upon release and get replaced by hybrids 4-5 years later

wasting more billions of dollars on ev shit no one wants. tf is wrong with these people

>>28563022 (OP)
ev skateborad with an iPad on it.

>model T moment
Hmm…

>1925 Model T
>starting price: $260
>median household income: $1,250
>so roughly 20% of median household income to purchase a new car

>2025 median household income: $80,000 (projected)
>20% = $16,000

Looks like they’ll need to come way down on that price

>>28563308
God damn, twice in one thread. See: >>28563278
Not a skateboard.

>>28563315
I'm not reading all that shit.
I'm happy for you, or sad that it happened to you.
That's crazy, dude!

the day Slate died

>>28563311
in 1925 the dollar was gold backed at $20 and ounce which today is $3,350 an ounce
1925
>Model T: $43,550
>Median income: $209,375
so the new EV is cheaper in real terms, but income is much lower in real terms.

>>28563022 (OP)
ICEsissies btfo

>>28563047
>they do sell the motor out of the mach-e as a crate engine already
Now if only someone made a battery the size of a 60 l fuel tank with actual real range of 500 km that could recharge from 0% to 100% in 5 minutes and didn't actually lose capacity over time. That would be sick.

>>28563022 (OP)
>ford is about to have it's 'model t moment'
I highly doubt it unless they're able to sell them outside the US.

>48:06 long circlejerk
>muh universal ev platform
>TRUGG
>didn't show the actual product
yeah I'm buying put options on Ford

Where pictures????

>a Slate clone
OK idea. Still a stupid price.

>>28563330
>>28563368
>>28563385
>>28563620
Allergic to Google or what?

There is no model. The news isn’t centered around a singular vehicle, though they did mention a vague idea about one (a midsize truck with a $30k price point).

It’s about a new type of modular production line that’s easily adapted for different vehicle architecture. This should be interesting to automobile enthusiasts but most of you have bought into Boomer propaganda, so EV’s bad.

>>28563022 (OP)
Wasn't "the new model T" the panther platform?

>>28563868
Eh, the Panther was surprisingly limited in use and configuration, and certainly not made with the goal of getting one in every driveway like the T. We think it's so common since they made a gorillion Crown Vics, but fleet sales were pretty much it past the 80s- no wagons, no coupes, no weird one-offs (other than the Marauder). If anything was the new Model T, it was the Fox platform. They built that shit fast, cheap, and used it for EVERYTHING.

>>28563861
if you're OP why are you asking these people to google it when you're trying to share news about this model t moment??

>>28563022 (OP)
An electric Model T would probably sell ok as a meme desu.
Otherwise this is probably about their rumored "Mustang" sedan variant.

>>28563278
>same price point as the Ranger

Why wouldn't I get a Ranger?

>>28563311
Well Chevy is retiring the Malibu, so there is room for a new US economy sedan.

>>28563919
Not OP. Not doing the work for you, but keep saying ridiculous shit and looking like a retard instead of taking a minute to look it up. How does it feel being totally wrong? Good? Bad? “I was simply mistaken” is no excuse when your retard claims are the diametric opposite of what’s being discussed.

Again, this is supposed to be an automobile enthusiast forum, but you fags aren’t enthusiastic because you’re basically brain damaged. “It’s just a new truck on a skateboard platform” is just too stupid to even touch.

>>28564016
Again, the news wasn’t about the model. It was about the platform. Maybe the trade off in towing utility and range are worth it for 20% fewer moving parts, less maintenance, always having a full tank, and being a lot faster. I don’t know. I’m not in marketing and I don’t own an EV.

there will never be a Model T moment again
it doesn't align with the values of The World's Foremost Problem

If it doesn't mean they will bring back Mercury pseudo-luxury upstyled/featured rebadges of their performance models I don't give a flying fuck.

>>28566241
no one cares dude, tell it to your blog.

>>28563022 (OP)
Nothing can stop what is coming.
By 2030, Ford will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of BYD.