I’m not sure if you are aware, but Subaru is already a “Toyota affiliated” company. Toyota increased their stake in Subaru to 20% which allows them to have this kind of control over Subaru. I highly doubt they will sell off their stake in the company now.

This reminds me of the Hyundai Venue. 

The question I have is where is Ford going to be getting the money that they will potentially be losing by having a vehicle that doesn’t require regular maintenance at their dealerships? Bill Ford specifically mentioned today how great this was for no more oil changes, but that also means their dealerships are…

Whoa now. This here is a Tesla circlejerk website. I’m afraid you need to find somewhere else to go take your optimism about actual competition against an electric car company we think is godly.