So what if they are? They still own the vehicles at this point, LOL. They can do what they want with their assets. They could run them all through a vehicle shredder if they wanted to.
The design and proportions of the vehicle from the ground up in the Ford studio were styled around the sasquatch package (35's)
The vehicle, IMO, looks weird without it.
The angle of the panhard bar is by design. attaches to frame on the high side, axle on the low side. these bars are required in 4-bar trailing link set-ups, like the previous member said to control lateral movement of the axle. you usually don't find them on Hotchkiss/leaf spring setups.
If I had to guess, that system design was created by the FSS for the roof, Webasto and not Ford. It would be the Webasto engineers that could answer that question
My '21 BB Sasquatch 4-door has 3 matching door trim panels, and one odd, Hi-series one. The FRONT driver/passenger, & rear driver all have hard, MIC/polypropylene rollover inserts (tan) that it's supposed to have, and the REAR passenger side has a soft, in-mold grain laminate (tan) one, like...