$1000 in cost reductions??? Omg. Either it was poorly designed or they cheapened it up.
As a former engineer and program manager at Ford, that amount of cost reduction is not a good sign.
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Funny how the person with the right answer gets all the downvotes. This is pretty basic stuff. Lots of new stuff for Mach-E, so it typically goes into production with belt and suspenders until everyone can validate the optimized design. A much better approach than the usual launch with quality issues and fix them as you go. And when you are dealing with $20k in batteries on that car it gets a lot easier to find savings.
And furthermore - what do customers think when you advertise that you took $1000 out? Did they drop the price too?? Did they take the good stuff out? Ford typically moves features out of base models and requires you to move up to the next higher model.
Plus - what happens when you squeeze suppliers for some of that savings???
Ge-z - what a way to run a business.
The Chief Program Engineer should be fired. Do you know how hard it is to remove $1000 from a typical vehicle????
Most engineering improvements are the nickel/dime/quarter per part magnitude.
actually if they had to rush mach-e to market, there may indeed be $1k of waste in that design. it may not be a bad design, but maybe they didnt have time to optimize it.
See the TV show American Auto February 1st episode, they sounded just like Farley and Lawler. 🤡🤡🤡