What on Earth is going on with Ford? #295

The Intercooler

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel

Leisure, Automotive

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Dan Prosser and Andrew Frankel attempt to make sense of everything that's going on at Ford. From a model line up made up almost entirely of crossovers and SUVs to tumbling sales figures and unprecedented levels of platform sharing with rivals, Ford is a very different car maker to the one we grew familiar with.

But might there be method in the madness? And can Ford re-establish itself as the market leader both in everyday cars and performance machines?

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0:33.4	Welcome back to the intercooler podcast, everybody, and welcome back after the Christmas
0:37.4	break. Happy New Year, everyone. Yeah, I hope you had a great one. 2026 is here. Goodness me, this is our first episode of the year. It's going to be a busy year, I think, for us, Andrew. We're going to be producing a lot of, we hope, good podcast content, both with this show and the second weekly show
0:56.6	that we do, Ask the Intercooler. We're going to be driving some interesting new cars, some
1:00.6	perhaps more interesting older cars. Yeah, I mean, if you listen to our podcast of, what, two weeks
1:04.6	ago, where we did our entire sort of 2026 preview, there's so much stuff coming up.
1:09.5	Yeah. It's going to be a very interesting year and we're going to be peddling very, very hard at the intercooler.
1:15.3	Literally and figuratively.
1:16.6	Exactly.
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