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S650 will not have as sharp of lines as the S550. If S550 was a fist punching through glass as per a faster horse. S650 will be a fist punching through water, more elegant, less aggressive. Ford will not make the mistake of the Camaro with 7th gen mustang looking to much like the 6th gen.

This is the trend. And it has little to with the environment in some cases. EV have significantly less operational costs associated with them in general. While the entry cost may be higher, and that is expected to grow some; the vehicles over their life cycle have much less cost to the customer...

Yes I do, it refers to iterations. I am also very familiar with what actually constitutes vehicle architectures. It's one of the services the company I work provides to other OEMs. What an OEM will declare about a platform is not necessarily indicative of what physically rolls of the assembly...

They are definitely not going anywhere, this is an interesting article about the trend in spite the relatively low EV sales in the U.S. https://www.designnews.com/automotive-0/ev-trend-now-irreversible/142883558457601

Honestly I am not that worried. Being able to amoratize R&D, SG&A and profit over more volume will only help the Mustang. The Camaro didn't really suffer from a performance side. GM just decided to top hat the Alpha Camaro more aggressively than the Zeta and making preventing visibilty...

There is atill alot of legacy in S550. Things are rarely clean sheeted due to best practices, and validation time frames.

Shit, I completely forgot about D6R even sat through a presentation. Well case and point, while a different platform there is no way Ford is bank rolling a unique advanced Mustang platform in within that time frame. There is no money in it. While there is Lincoln concept sketches, they got...

Please define all new, majority "all new vehicles" are far from that in reality. I wouldn't even call S550 all new from SN197, I would guess it effectually is an 75% 90% tear up. I doubt Ford wants to spend a Billion dollars on platform with one vehicle on it. I would put money its a slight...

From what I have been told about S650. The chassis will remain largely the same, specifically dimensionally due to the cost of architecture changes. The powers at be felt the money spent on changing the body structure was better spent achieving inproved results elsewhere in the car. To me that...

Ford's electric vehicle is in the design studio as you speak. That's prob a 2019/2020 car.

Pretty sure that's the lincoln continental seats

It depends on how it is executed. Your big concentration of manufacturing and development cost is from the front rails to the Hinge/A Pillar, front and rear suspension. The stuff that crashes, holds powertrains, ect. The floor can be stretch to accommodate wheel bases relatively easily. Think...

Wonder what the Pill will say about this...

When Nair was asked about if Ford will ever build a 100th anniversary GT Horses don’t serve the role that they used to, but there’s still a lot of horse races that are a big deal, and people still enjoy riding horses. I hope it doesn’t go that far, but it’s certainly a possibility. I think...

S650 exterior design considerations have probably recently kicked off. It is likely that it will not follow 2018 MCA styling cues.

If I had to guess I would say it's CAFE related. If you can get it lighter, improve its small overlap crash score, and make it more powerful and efficient. It's a win for everyone.

Let me do everyone a solid. 42 minutes into the video will get you to where you want to be.

That cradle shown looks to be from a Fusion/MKZ. So it seems the intent is to validate it on a mass produced vehicle platform. Magna did the GT350 CFRP rad support IIRC.

The F150 uses a Magnesium radiator module. They might go to it. given the nature of mag pricing at times.

http://www.autonews.com/article/20170314/OEM10/170319924/magna-ford-team-up-for-weight-saving-carbon-fiber-subframe-prototype Wonder if the S650 will see something similar.