MY22 Ford Courier Compact Pick-up Coming?

[68fastback]

Rumored to be based on the soon to be released all-new Focus chassis.

Detroit Free Press article... (https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2018/07/30/ford-small-pickup/866360002/)

Consistent with DFP's article, Trademark database shows two in-flight trademarks: one for Transit Courier and another for Courier. Maybe there will be two versions since the existing Transit Connect van is also based on Focus (current one) too. Both have been Published for Opposition with no challenges and the use/lose flightpath clock has started. Transit Courier is on a mid-2020 (I forget exact date) use/lose flightpath and Courier is on a June 26, 2021 flightpath, perfect for a show-teaser holding-place and a MY22 production model respectively (using either name). No mention if Courier is or isn't destined for the US market. I was unaware that Ford also sells a micro/subcompact Brazilian-made Fiesta-based pick-up too!

[68fastback]

Hmmm... that pic further down the DFP page when opened shows Ford as the source ...so maybe the real question is when it comes here on the revised Focus chassis...


http://stangsunited.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23101&d=1535128242


Could be a real coup for Ford to be first to offer a meaningful pick-up smorgasbord in North America -- looks to be about the same size as my old Ranger.

[Tommy Gun]

Looks like a Subaru.

They probably have them in Australia already.

[68fastback]

...or an early compact Ranger (http://momentcar.com/images/ford-ranger-1982-10.jpg) :shades:

...you mean the Sube Baja? (https://hips.hearstapps.com/amv-prod-cad-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/images/02q4/267343/subaru-baja-photo-6333-s-original.jpg?crop=1xw:1xh;center,center&resize=900:*)-- a car missing a trunk lid :lol:

[The Bone]

Ford is getting rid of all there car line except Mustang and Focus. Bad idea but who am I.
So they are going to make micro trucks. Stupid idea.
Concentrate on making the best trucks and drip the price a little and show Chevy who knows how to sell trucks.
Ford makes too much money on trucks so they could cut the price a little.

[68fastback]

...there will still be cars ...but with higher seat height (Ford called it "stadium seating" in the prior Taurus) and different/trunk-less rooflines so they can be EPA classified as 'trucks' and fall under different EPA 'rules.' People simply aren't buying conventional cars as in the past -- numbers are down all around. GM is dropping a bunch or car models too. My fear is that the Japanese (and/or Koreans?) will, once agian, own the car market, albeit contracted, but all those logos still drive a lot of mind-space on the road.

The all new Focus will underpin several vehicles and Lincoln will likely spin-off a true performance coupe off the Mustang chassis -- likely a TT-V6. Trucks and SUVs are selling; cars aren't -- except for Mustang (by far the leader in its class) and Focus -- a true global car sold in over 100 countries ...the all new Focus I've read will likely be Ford of Germany engineered and produced in other markets before it comes to the US (I believe recently revised Ford-China joint venture may get first production) -- US units won't come from China, may come from Germany, and will also be the base of a couple of true hi-po versions (a la S and RS) and possibly a new model, among other vehicle types (mini unibody pick-up [not for the US?] being just one). The current Focus (the first true global car ever made) underpins Transit Connect (engineered by Ford Germany and Turkey), all of which are actually manufactured in a huge state-of-the-art Ford plant in Valencia Spain.

In the past non-North American manufacturing was for local-market sales but that will change (Focus was the only exception -- a true global car). GM already makes Buicks destined for North America in China. The North American Focus is currently made in Wayne Michigan (and a couple other countries for local markets) but that will change with the new one -- reportedly even North America-bound units will be made abroad.

If China ever figures out how to make automotive sensors that can make engines meet US and Euro emissions (amazingly they still are not able to) then the flood will be on! I find it interesting that, even in China, US autos are in high demand but, even there, car derivatives (unibody SUVs) are in much higher demand than traditional cars with few exceptions.