Ford claims nobody cares about engines anymore so they're going all in on China

The time of the EVs is nigh, as even the most trusted combustion engine pioneers have called time on gas engines, as Ford claims nobody cares about them anymore.

“If I asked people what they wanted, they’d tell me ‘a faster horse’,” Henry Ford once said.

Ford eclipsed the trusted horse and carriage transport lines within a year of selling the Model T.

The company knows what the customers really want – and over a decade later, it’s pulling the plug on the era of engines and jamming the wire into the side of EVs.

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Ford exec thinks people don’t care about engines anymore

Many manufacturers are divided on what the future looks like for engines and the beloved cars that rely on them.

On one hand, the supercar industry is clinging onto them for dear life.

BMW is refusing to hand over its V8 production, while Ferrari claims its V12 will only stop being produced when it becomes illegal.

However, the mass-producing brands are biting the bullet and moving with the trends, so much so that Toyota claims nobody would even bother with an ICE 4-Runner nowadays.

And now, Ford has entered the chat.

One executive has claimed that the engine game is coming to an end, as nobody really cares what’s going on under the hood anymore.

“I don’t think that consumers really think about powertrains the way they did 30 years ago,” said Ford Vice Chair John Lawler during a conference in May.

“Where [combustion engines] defined what a vehicle was – the horsepower, the displacement, the torque, and everything about the vehicle – I think a lot of that is gone.”

What does the future look like for engines?

For Ford, it looks like the love of the game is the reason they’re moving away from engines, and it’s going to be a quick shift over to China to import new parts like EV motors.

Already, the Mach-E is on the rise.

It’s sad reading for those die-hard Mustang fans, but the electric era is taking over.

There is still a glimmer of hope for ICE engines, though, with Japanese car makers going all out on creating the ‘next generation’ of combustion powertrains, in the hope that they can become eco-friendly.

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