The original place I heard the "Pacifica" name was on a concept car Chrysler build in the later 1990s, "Father of Magnum" that was on a fwd LH platform with 300M front sheet metal. Never saw production, for some reason. The later Pacifica model was Daimler's version of that car, but too wide, too heavy (to get a 5-star crash rating), etc. Not a sales leader by any stretch of the imagination! Then "Town and Country" became a leather-interiored mini-van vehicle.
The Mustang Mach-E is no worse than what GM/Oldsmobile did in the 1990s, when Olds was struggling for sales. When they put the "Cutlass" nameplate on any Olds that was not an "88" or "98", which spanned several GM platforms in the process. "Cutlass" had been a very popular upscale mid-size car in the 1960s and 1970s, so they sought to use it again. Didn't work as well that last time around! As GM was short on money as they were committed to the Cadillac brand's rebuilding activities at the same time.
On the other hand, the Ford Maverick and Ford Bronco have brought those product names to many younger generations who will buy them for decades to come. The Maverick pickup shows restraint in pricing that has worked well for Ford and Mavericks, both. High resale values have been observed. A better product than the earlier bare-bones economy car of the 1970s.
