Ford made only minor tweaks to Edge 2023, like coined by The Ford Administrationmeans two rows Cross each other – on sale in its current form since 2015 in the US – doesn’t have anything close to a significant upgrade in 2.5 years, when it received a new 12-inch infotainment touchscreen and Sync4A. The revisions for the 2023 model year are mostly re-introducing cut or swap features for 2022. The iconic silver honeycomb grille with chrome grille trim will return on the top. SE and SEL versions this year, as well as the chrome-rimmed fog lights in the SEL Convenience Pack.
Perimeter alert is a standard feature on the Edge ST after becoming optional in 2022. The SecuriCode keyless input keyboard is included in the product catalog after it last appeared in the Custom Convenience Pack. selected last year for certain models. Additionally, a $650 ST Interior Package is now offered on the top-spec trim, which adds leather seats with Miko details stitched with accent stitching in Raptor Blue and Red. Perforated leather steering wheel with Race Red and Raptor Blue stitching and ST Logo, center console cover, plus special floor mats and insert the door.
A few years of reporting and rumor, as well as a Canadian auto union deal, indicates that Ford is dropping the Edge after this model year, though news on the timing is yet to be verified. However, Edge will definitely disappear from our market as an internal combustion engine offering, says Ford CEO Jim Farley to Analysts so on the Q4 2022 earnings call. He said, “[We] We’re not going into the two-row SUV market for that – because Ford has tried that in the ICE business. It didn’t really work for us. We want to play our hands, our strength, commercial, trucklarger vehicles on the catalog side.”
Before Farley made that point, however, he said, “The two-cargo crossover turns out to be the core citizen of the electric vehicle business”, so don’t be surprised by retaliation in some form by battery and an electric motor, maybe a Electric successor to Lincoln Nautilus.
