Ford Turbo, the current incarnation of Ford, has some exciting features. In retrospect some of those features were the result of irrational exuberance. Many have been in Ford since the beginning.
Ford Pinto is an attempt to take a more measured look at which features Ford actually needs and to support only those features. The overall plan involves passing through Ford Pinto into Ford Focus, which will include performance tuning targeted at the major Ford use cases.
What is Ford actually used for? Building files, and doing mark operations, basically. The primary simplification I'm making to Ford in this revision is to separate those two interfaces. Ford runes other than simple imports have been removed, and there is now a strict layering where building a source file does not depend on mark builds.