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After a pleasant surprise of shipping time from rail in Miami to Dealer in West Palm, another SD found a home tonight. Ill post more about timeline, dealer experience and all that jazz tomorrow. But figured id just drop this in here for now as its the only picture I have at the moment anyways.

When the first thing a new President does is sign executive orders canceling the completion of a major pipeline for getting that supply to market and prohibiting exploration and production on Federal lands, that can't be classified as "impact, none."

(Skip to scheduling and allocation parts if you don’t feel like reading all of this lol) A little info for ordering if you don’t know the process. There is a lot of false statements going around and this should clear up what the process is. I did not write this 1. Order types There are 3 basic order types, Stock, Retail, and Fleet. There are others, but I'm just going to use these 3. AXZD plan will fall under Retail in my description. The other types are Dealer Demo; drivers ed loan out and lease renewal order. Again I'm going to just use the 3 as the others basically fall under those 3 also. Stock- Unsold orders for dealer inventory. Order type 2 Retail- Sold orders; have a customer name assigned to them in the system. These also have price protection in case of an increase. Stock units don't. It’s an order type 1 in the system (or A, X, K for the weird order types) Fleet- Sold orders for companies with a valid Fleet ID. (a fleet ID requires 15 units in service). This order type schedules differently and also gets different pricing. Rebates don't apply to fleets (but they do have a "Retail greater than Fleet" discount if rebates are bigger than fleet discounts. They also don't pay the FDAF fees and other things. Orders are scheduled out of a fleet pool and not the dealer’s allocation, but more on that later. This is an order type 0. Next on an order is an order number. This doesn't mean much it’s just a way of tracking. It’s a 4 digit number (or letters) and is assigned by the dealer. I use the order date for mine. This is one of the 3 items you need to check the status of an order. Body type- This just tells what the truck is, for example a X14 is a Supercab 4x4 styleside. The first letter is the cab style (F=Regular cab, X= Supercab, W=Crewcab) The second digit tells more. On the New F-150 a 0 is a flareside, 1 is a styleside (2 is a F-250, 3 F-350, etc). The 3rd digit tells whether 2 or 4 wheel drive (on New F-150 2 is 2wd, 4 is 4x4, old style was 7. This explanation applies to F-Series trucks, cars can be different. This item is also needed to check an order. Dealer code- This is also on the order and is needed to check the status of an order (with Ford, dealer only gets listing of his units). This is a set of 2 numbers, a letter, and 3 more numbers. The first two correspond to the region, letter tells the zone in that region, and last 3 identify the dealer. Mine is 53W544 (53=KC region, Zone W, dealer 544). This is the 3rd thing needed to check the status of an order. All 3 are listed together on a DORA on the Upper portion far right a few blank lines below the priority code. A DORA is a Dealer Order Receipt Acknowledgement. It’s a printout we get back from Ford after ordering. Usually comes next business day. You should get one from your dealer after ordering. It’s a good way to verify what's ordered is what you want. \2. Priority Codes. This is listed on the far right upper portion of a DORA. It’s also on the dealers print outs of order status. This only applies until a unit is scheduled. Once assigned a VIN this doesn't mean anything anymore. The codes start at 1 and run to 99. A dealer can only assign between 10 and 99. A 99 order can't be scheduled. I use these for people that tell me to get them a unit on date (later than normal orders take). I put in a 99'd order so I have what they wanted in the system and don't forget about it and then change it to a buildable priority when time comes they're ready for the truck. The region (or other Ford divisions) can prioritize below 10; I've only seen a 01 priority below 10. They do this in the event of something unusual; most orders never see a priority 01. An example is if they're manually scheduling (like the First F-150 for each dealer, or first year T Birds) or if it’s something that needs to be urgent (first order destroyed in shipping, etc). Again I normally only see this a few times a year. Also if you do get a priority 01, things usually get scheduled fast even if you have some hard to get commodities (but not hold items). More on commodities later. I believe that the under 10 priorities go first through the allocation system. Other priorities are to organize what order the dealer wants the trucks in. These only affect that dealer and have no bearing on other dealers. If a dealer only uses 50 or higher, another dealer that starts at 10 won't get his trucks any sooner. This system is to organize the order so they are "in a row" for scheduling. That way in the first pass of scheduling they only look at 1 truck per dealer, then on second pass look at 2nd one. Regardless of what the number actually is. If 50's the lowest at dealer a and 10's my lowest, they are both in the first pass, and are equal to each other. More than one order can have the same priority. If this happens the system looks at order types and then order date. Retails take priority over stock and oldest takes priority. For example: order 1234 Retail order date 9/3/03 order 4321 Retail order date 5/5/03 order 5555 Stock order date 4/4/03 The Retail orders take priority. and then oldest order comes first. So the system would look at these in this order: Order 4321 because it’s the oldest retail at this priority order 1234 2nd as it’s a retail order 5555 being a stock order its 2nd despite order date. Also Priority can override stock, retail or order date. If a retail is priority 20 and a stock is 19, the stock tries to schedule first; the retail and date thing only applies to orders with the same priority number. So the big thing I want everyone to know is don't get too worried if your not a priority 01 as this is very rare, also don't worry if your not at priority 10, I start my retail orders at 20 so I've got some room if something comes up that I need to prioritize under my current orders I can. On Fleet orders, none of this priority stuff applies. The priority codes are to control build date and are a letter and a number that correspond to a build month and week. This isn't to get stuff quicker but actually slower. Often fleets will order in January and not want the units for a few months. I can order so it can't be built until later so it will arrive in time but not overly early. Fleet units don't compete with retail or stock at all for scheduling as fleet comes out of their own pool and not from a dealer’s allocation. 3. Allocation- Now that we've got orders in the bank they have to be Scheduled, oh getting ahead of my self, I better list some terms that apply to order status. These are on the dealer printouts so if you see these you'll know what they mean. Matl HOLD - unit can't schedule something is not available. for example, my Harley F-250 is in this status as production doesn't start until 11/3/03 unschd/clean- unit isn't scheduled (no VIN, no date, no guarantee to build), but is a buildable order once allocation and commodities allow. Submitted to plant- Unit assigned a VIN and assy plant, plant is assigning build date. Scheduled- has a build date and a vin Locked in- Changes can no longer be made to this order, unit is either close to being built, or at the end of the year they lock in orders early so they don't have left over parts between model years. Bucked- Unit is close to production, it’s my understanding that this mean the frame is on a Buck that’s used to roll it down the line. Produced- Unit is built Rel from plant- Unit is built and through inspection, available to ship. May also say Rel to Rail, or rel to convoy depending on location ttgxx7837934- or some weird number like this means it’s on a rail car and that’s the number. Arrived at ramp XX- has arrived at the rail head and been unloaded, the XX is a usually a number and letter. Mine go to 6P (Kansas City) or 4T (Joliet, IL) Ok, now that we've got some terminology lets talk allocation. Allocation determines who gets the units for that build week. The way allocation is split is based on Sales and availability. They don't count equally; I think sales factor 60% and availability 40%. The region like to call it turn and earn. The more you sell and fewer you have, the more you get. So if you've got lots of units on the ground and haven't been selling them, you won't get many new allocations. If you have none because you sold them all you should get a good number allocated. This information doesn't help a customer much as you really can't tell what dealers will get allocation. Larger dealers will get more allocation, but will have more orders also so doesn't mean faster scheduling. Generally most dealers are in similar situations and wait times will be similar. There are exceptions to this, for example 1999 Super Duty's were hard to get, but we had plenty of them as in a rural community we've always sold lots of HD trucks and the sales history helped us and hurt the city dealers that were selling them because they were "hot", this will hurt us the other way when the 05 Mustang comes out as I don't sell many normally I'll have a harder time getting them. Now this system ends up with leftovers as it doesn't end up with every dealer earning exact allocation and its hard to schedule .44 of a truck, so the left overs are used to get allocation to dealers that have retail orders and didn't earn (or earn enough) allocation to schedule them. Select and Contact dealers. There are 2 classifications of dealers Select (smaller dealers) and Contact (large dealers), for scheduling there are sometimes some differences. Right now on F-150 both work in the same allocation system, but on most other models (and F-150 starting in aprox December) the select dealers won't have to get allocation; they get every order they place automatically. So on most models, the smaller dealer will be able to get them quickly. Fleet- Fleet doesn't go through the allocation system. Fleet gets a percentage of the week’s production and schedules by order date so this eliminates any time differences between dealers and also allows them to sell to fleets without using a allocation that should go to a normal customer. Fleet unit sales don't count to earn allocation either. 4. Commodities- We usually get a list of controlled commodities on Wednesday these are the items that are not available (not Material hold, just overscheduled from past or supply issues, short term shortage, Material hold items Can't schedule, IE DVD is currently Material hold) and items that aren't going to be "Free demand". Free demand items are ones that you can get as many as you want, supply outdoes demand. Other items may have a restriction. Currently two-tone paint is a commodity. For example let me give a list of controls (not actual amounts, just for example based on things I've seen in the last few weeks. Two tone paint (supercab/Regular cab) 30% two tone paint (SuperCrew) 18% total SuperCrew 35% 5.4L V-8 80% Other items can also control, this is just an example (and items that I've seen on control already for the 04's). What this means is the % of the trucks scheduled that can have this option. That isn't an individual dealer thing, but all dealers in the region (controls are often regional, but usually most regions are the same). That means that if 1 dealer doesn't use his share another may get a higher percentage, or if another doesn't prioritize right, he may miss all the controls and get the free demand items only. Now were ready to go to the complicated part, Scheduling. 5. Scheduling. Scheduling usually happens Thursday night (allocation happens Wed night and we get the results sometime Thursday). Basically it’s all done by computer (unless something like a priority 01 may be manually scheduled first to make sure it gets scheduled). It lines all the dealers (that have allocation) in some sort of random order. If there are no commodities, this is easy, first dealers unit scheduled, second dealers, third dealers, etc, Once all dealers first allocation has been scheduled they go to the next round and do the same for the dealers that have a second allocation, once everyone's second is done they go through those with a 3rd and so on. Now that’s in a perfect world where there aren't any commodities. Here in the real world it works a little different. Commodities screw this all up. Right now most vehicles only have 1 or two commodities so it’s not as big of deal. At times there might be 10 different commodities that are all separate and different and can make things difficult. If when scheduling gets to a dealers allocation, and his order has a commodity that has already run out, they skip him for that pass. He doesn't loose his allocation, it gets used in the next pass, but it can cost him in other commodities. Let me do an example. This is PURELY SAMPLE, not actual numbers. Lets say Super Duty F-Series commodities 5% Crew Cab 30% Two tone 50% Power Stroke 25% V-10 now we're going to use Dealer A and dealer B. Lets say they both got 3 allocations. Dealer A F-250 V-10 Supercab with 2 tone priority 20 F-350 V-10 Regular cab with 2 tone priority 25 F-250 PowerStroke priority 30 Dealer B F-250 V-10 Crew Cab priority 10 F-250 V-10 Crew Cab priority 11 F-250 Supecab Two tone V-10 Priority 12 F-250 Regular cab PowerStroke priority 13 F-250 Supercab 5.4L priority 17 F250 Regular cab 5.4L priority 18 F350 supercab 5.4L priority 20 OK now to schedule. Let’s say dealer A is toward the beginning of scheduling and dealer B is at the end (supposed to be a random order, but someone has to be first and someone last, but the dealer has no say in this). 1. System looks at dealer a's first order, Commodities still available so it gets scheduled. 2. System gets do dealer b's first order and is out of Crew cabs before it gets there so dealer b doesn't get a unit scheduled 3. Dealer A's up again and gets his second scheduled as both are available. 4. Dealer B's second order is a crew cab again so nothing schedules again this pass 5. Dealer A's 3rd order is still OK so it also gets scheduled and uses up his final allocation. 6. Dealer B's 3rd order isn't a Crew cab, but after 2 and 1/2 passes 2 tone is exhausted so again nothing scheduled. 7. Dealer B's Power Stroke order doesn't schedule as they are used up in previous passes so he has yet to have a unit schedule. 8. Dealer B gets the next three units scheduled in the next three passes as the commodities ordered are still available (in this example). So when it’s said and done Dealer A got 2 V-10's 1 Power Stroke and 2 two tone orders where dealer B got nothing off of the control list. He gets his three units that he was allocated, but doesn't get any of the hard to get stuff due to the way his order bank was prioritized. This is why a dealer would want to put some of the moderately difficult items in the middle instead of all the hardest to get stuff at the first priority. If I had set up my order bank (in this example) I would have had a crew cab 1st and some a two tone second. This example was a little extreme, but it shows how the system works. This info doesn't really help you as a customer as there aren’t much you can do to affect this, but I thought people would find it interesting on how the system works. With current commodities, there isn't a lot of risk because after the only major commodities (not holds) are two tone and SuperCrew so after they run out you can still get some decent vehicles. But in years passed, they tried to stick dealers with some stuff that wasn't worth ordering. If you don't want something you can pass on your allocation, but many dealers will take slow moving trucks instead of passing on allocation. This can hurt worse thought as now the system shows you with that truck in inventory so it can cost you future allocation (remember the turn and earn system). Sometimes vehicles are excluded to get dealers to take them. In years passed, V-6 F-150's were excluded and 6 speed diesels didn't count against you. 6. Other Now that your unit is scheduled, here are some other points of interest. Once scheduled some changes can be made. If an item is a commodity, it probably can't be added, but can be removed. Trim level (XLT, Lariat, etc) can't be change nor can body style (4x4, 4x2, Crew cab, Reg cab, etc). But color and options can be mounted until the truck is locked in for production. If the change takes, you'll get a new DORA the next day. If not nothing happens. After Locked in status the truck gets "Bucked" and will be produced very soon. Next step is produced. This means the truck is built but hasn't left the plant yet. Rel from plant is next, self explanatory then things change based on your location. It may be REL to convoy (truck); Rel to Rail (train) or it may have a long number like ttx198345, that is the rail car the truck is loaded on. There may be a space and then a 2 digit number after this. That’s the Ramp (rail yard where loaded and unloaded) where the train is at. Arrived at ramp XX (the XX is a 2 digit number) this is again the place where loaded and unload, unfortunately I don't have a list of them. This means the truck has been unloaded from the train and is waiting truck shipment. Next step truck arrives at deal

This is an interesting conversation with several moving parts. In regards to the economy, the ridiculousness over the past 2 years needs a correction. We are at the beginning of a recession and bubble burst. Too much free money which promotes unbridled spending, which combined with the pandemic has prices soaring. The housing market needs a reset. Dealers charging 10-20k ADM needs a reset. Credit availability needs a reset. Government handing out "free money" needs a reset. The chip crisis is real but I think "more real" for non Asian carmakers. So until that is resolved, we are going to have somewhat of supply issue. Ford has a pretty respectable plan, the chip crisis and battery supply issues is making it harder to implement. I think basically making a HEV/PHEV bridge to pure BEV makes sense. Sure their trucks can be thirsty, but the F-150 has a hybrid and the 2.7 which get respectable mileage. I do fault Ford their reliance of Asian chip manufactures. Worst case scenario has occurred and they got bit pretty hard. The uproar over $4.00 gas seems to highlight how many people leveraged themselves to the brink. Gas prices have increased a lot for sure but this should not be OMG, I can't afford to fill up. Americans are good at overreacting and making knee jerk decisions that don't make much financial sense. Banks and dealers are more than happy to accommodate them. I predict this year will be a wild ride. Hold on tight. It's needed though to get back to "normal"....whatever that is.

The big issue is finding enough chips and supplies to build anything, can’t sell what you can’t make…

Well, kinda,,,, HRG

The few sources I found say all of the oil flowing thru the Keystone pipeline comes from Canada to USA, not the other way around. Can you share where your info comes from that only 5% of Keystone oil will come to USA? I read another article where the Canadian oil company TC Energy says they will not finish Keystone pipeline now, they have been jerked around so many times they're moving on. TC Energy will not revive Keystone XL oil pipeline project | BOE Report Gas and diesel prices were already going up before Russia invaded Ukraine and every penny of increase before and after Is because of the stupidity of Joe Biden and his green energy nut jobs in power that think electricity is PFM plus Joe Biden's feckless and idiotic foreign policy that could get us all killed if Putin launches nukes because he smells weakness like a shark with blood. God help us all...

Picked it up last night. Long long wait but worth it I'm my opinion.

So the way to fight high gas prices is to buy a BEV that’s $10 - 15K more expensive than a comparable ICE vehicle? That’s ridiculous. What’s the plan to combat soaring electricity rates?

No one replied, so i will. We stopped wearing em on Friday 3/4. I’m assuming everyone else did too

No argument there, but there is more life left in ICE and the infrastructure for it is very mature. And ICE development continues with some. For example, Nissan just introduced its new variable compression engine in its 2022 Rogue. Very impressive fuel mileage and Nissan will sell a lot of them. I hope EVs do well, but there is still room for ICE and further development. Especially if the price is thousands cheaper than EV. And so far surveys show that EVs are more problematic than ICE. Mainly software/electronic problems.

I’m not arguing one side or the other but those are hardly “facts” unless you have other credible sources and not just internet rumors spread by confirmation bias.

With all due respect, I think you misinterpreted this announcement. Ford isn't getting rid of ev development or creating another company for it. They're just giving it its own dedicated division, which will result in a more efficient organization, and better products.

Yep, working at home is great way to conserve fuel. If everyone could try to conserve even 1gallon/week of fuel, it would help a lot. Also E bikes are the rage now and can be used for simple errands. Bring the fuel demand down maybe 5 to 10%, and prices could moderate a bit.

Working from home I don’t visit a gas station very often either. So what does our President do? Suggest that we return to our downtown offices. What ever happened to conservation? The last time gas hit $4+, companies allowed more work from home.

Yeah, I am taking the $100K rumor with a grain of salt. we already looked at real estate in the surrounding towns of Stanton, out of curiosity, and it's actually not that bad compared to Kansas City. much nicer and newer homes and cheaper prices. The homes we found in Tennessee would be in $500-$600K range in KC, but down there they run between $300-400K. It's actually a bit cheaper, and buying in during a development phase is an investment that will pay off well later.

Gonna need another digit on those signs. I wonder when someone will be smart enough to add c0.1 to a gas tax so we can do away with the the .9 BS.

The key to low USA fuel costs are to be energy independent. If we produced 100% of our own oil and gas, the price would stabilize in the USA and I can't think of anything else around the world that could change that price. Finishing the keystone pipeline and opening up exploring and uncapping wells that are ready to pump is what we should do immediately, this is what Trump was doing until Biden had to reverse the progress. We shouldn't import one single drop of oil, especially from any country that hates our guts and wants us exterminated like Iran or Russia. Okay, I agree the keystone pipeline wouldn't fix our problems right away, but every day closer to opening that spigot would help our morale and ease tensions and possibly ease gouging. We have all the energy in the USA we need for over 100 years, that has been proven, all we need to do is extract it and use it. Getting oil and gas from other countries doesn't do a damn thing to help the global climate, and it's actually worse for the planet because in many of these foreign lands, they are careless with the extraction and cause more issue than extracting here in the USA. Electric cars are cool, I agree, but the electricity must come from somewhere and solar and wind cannot provide what is needed. Nuclear is the best solution for electricity and it will take a long time before an individual all electric transportation system is ready in USA. The Liberals and environmentalist are trying to force electric vehicles on the public, this cannot work because there is not enough electricity to go around and the infrastructure is not ready so we must do both at the same time, develop a long term solution to our electric demand and keep progress moving forward by using the fossil fuels we have available. We shouldn't import one single drop of oil or gas from outside the USA, it can be done. Trump used to say we were energy independent when he was president and a net exporter at the same time. I don't know the truth, some have said we were still importing from Russia and other foreign countries at the same time and we were selling enough through exports that on paper, we could say we were independent and exporting at the same time. Either way, we have the ability to be 100% energy independent, we just need leaders that have the will to make it so. I apologize for the rant... 787Toolman

Good story DeluxeStang. My wife and I have attended several BEV education events like National Drive Electric Week, and let several people test drive our 2 BEV (Ford Mustang Mach-E and Tesla Model S). Some of those people, like your father, were "highly resistant" to BEV prior to experiencing one. Each one that my wife or I met personally changed their tune after test driving a BEV and chatting with us and other BEV owners. J.D. Power's latest U.S. Electric Vehicle Experience Study confirms this. They said "Making the initial leap of faith into owning a BEV is proving to be very satisfying" and "once someone has purchased a BEV, they’re pretty much hooked." For Ford, the biggest goals related to getting to a 100% electric future are. Build in-house talent and capabilities for BEV design, engineering, manufacturing, and marketing Expand production capacity to meet demand for BEV, including producing components such as a HV batteries and electric motors Accelerate the timeline for exiting the ICE age simultaneously with growing the BEV and advanced technology businesses The separation of business units described in this thread is a great starting point to achieve all 3 of those goals.

If you like it, does it really matter what everyone else thinks? It's original and doesn't look all that bad. For me the name has no context JMHO.

Surprisingly, noone has started a thread about the reviews for the refreshed nav. Below is one, theres a couple on yourtube, car and driver and motortrend also posted reviews as well. All seem to say the same thing about the nav. The interior of the black label is still near or at the top of the class. Though the 30 way seats still take time, they are still very comfy and has better massage. The sound system is even better. Sync 4, though still not as tech heavy as it's competitors, is a vast improvement to the current model. Ride has better body control, but unfortunately not as quiet or as competitive to its newer rivals (though admittedly, most journalists state they need to do back to back runs with its rivals). Handling is similar but more controlled. Also, the big news, lincoln glide is nice feature, however it is heavily nanny tethered. It's very sensitive and seems very eager to turn off for various reasons, such as looking away for more than a sec, curves, traffic, etc. All in all, lincoln did a good job on the refresh, but it needs air suspension and some key lux features if it wants to increase segment share. Still, you can't tell me this isn't the best looking truck on the market. Surprisingly

Thank you for all your help! Picked the truck up last night and I remember your rules of wanting to see the vehicles LOL, so here you go, Old and New together for the only time. Thank you for offering your services to everyone.

Most really didn't get to feel the pain. Free money loans (so much fraud), government checks (so much fraud), economy wasn't doing bad, and most people were spending like crazy (those that were working). It's like we delayed the effects of the pandemic. Now that interest rates are skyrocketing, no more handouts, inflation through the roof, and now gas prices are acting like unstable gas prices. All this and now we have a volatile world climate that, if things go terribly, the US could get dragged into. They don't want to say it on Bloomberg or CNBC but the reality is the future for the US economy isn't going up right now. Talking to economists in my office yesterday, Q3-Q4 this year could be really bad. Now are the wrong sometimes? Sure, but I'd expect things to be really volatile for a while.

Very nice for you to post this information. Unfortunately, the information is outdated by about 10+ years. The CONCEPS ordering system is only valid for Fleet orders. The WBDO (Web Based Dealer Ordering) system is the most recent ordering system along with the new COVP (Customer Order Verification Program) system which provides incremental allocation and priority scheduling for verified retail orders. The most recent ordering and scheduling information, needing an update still, is at the Ford Vehicle Ordering & Scheduling Process forum (https://blueovalforums.com/forums/index.php?/topic/63667-ford-vehicle-ordering-scheduling-process/). The ordering, priority code and scheduling process has changed in the past couple of years and is continuing to change reflecting the increased priority for retail factory orders.

I know I’m at 3/7 but never received a bump email…and with the factory down this week one would assume others will get pushed to make room for the 3/7 group

Unfortunately no. No changes at this time, again.

Thanks

Well, glad you got it either way. Sweet looking truck, thanks for sharing. Enjoy.

I was not sure how that worked exactly, so thank you for clarifying that up for me.

12/13 I kept it simple, F350 DRW Lariat, 4x4 6.7, no AS Or spray bed, value package, safe, fifth wheel, tailgate step, 2 tone iconic silver and carbon gray, 3rd brake light camera. I have a fifth wheel camper.

It could also signal an existing engrained culture of teams seeing EVs as extensions of their ICE platforms as a way of burying costs under an existing cost centre, something Farley wants to put an end to? That was a part of the old way of doing business when the cost of an all new product couldn’t be justified but seems to have become the norm as a way of sliding “new vehicles” past the accountants..

m My 2017 had 2.5"-->2" reducer. My 2022 has 2.5" receiver and no reducer.

Maverick (especially the hybrid)! If only Ford could build more...

I know I would love the option to pick it up at the plant. Ford might be missing out on offering that as an optoin.

Thank you sir

From a friend of a friend (alleged VP from a small producer), so take it for what it's worth... Big oil companies bought up the assets from the shale oil producers and destroyed the equipment.

You mean tell that to the UAW when contract comes up. Farley needs to tone down his rhetoric as I can almost feel UAW anxiety rising. Farley may be running full speed ahead, but UAW will be trying to slow him down big time as in protecting its members.

Tell that to the person who is loosing their job....

Slipping out? naa the facts are jumping at the 81 million that bought a ticket to the circus sideshow... The cheerleaders in the media want us to believe that Russia is our biggest problem when it comes to price spikes, but the data tells us our co-presidents have been the biggest obstacle. All the way back in January 2021, AAA recorded the biggest jump in the national average price since 2009 (surely it’s purely coincidental that 2009 was the beginning of the previous progressive administration). Caution: Slippery when progressive

You don't... But it does...what about the transmission issues Honda has had or countless other problems other car makes have had with design issue with something? I can make a list of different issues over the years that other makers have had...it just seems like that when it happens to a domestic car maker and that customer moves on to another make an has an issue, they can't admit that it is happening.

My wait is over as well gents. I did a search this weekend and found this 2021 F350 Lithium gray Tremor,Lariat Ultimate, BAP, AS, 5th wheel prep, bed liner fully optioned out with 4540 miles on the odo and only in service 6 months. I called the dealer and placed a deposit over the phone on Sat purchased the truck and drove it home Sunday. I am done with all the bumps and guessing. We needed a truck to pull our camper and this is perfect. I called my dealer and canceled my 22 order and my fund was processed while on the phone. All the best gents on your orders, I just could not pass this deal up. Thanks to the moderators on here, they do a great job. Onward!! ????

Well our wait is over. Picked up our F250 KRU tonite. Will post up some pics tomorrow. Wife took this at dealer. Ordered 7/21/21, Antimatter Blue, chrome package and other goodies. Well worth the wait.

7 is the new lucky number, Grandsons birthday today. Just got the call from my dealer. The truck has landed and getting cleaned up. Will pick up later today.

Picked up yesterday. Iconic Silver / Baja leather F350 CCSB, f&R wheel well liners, spray in bed liner, utt camera (all of which we thought would delay production / delivery)... 3.73 locking, fx4, camper pkg, trailer tpms/cam, upfitter sw, tailgate step, Lariat value pkg, 6.2, 10 spd. Order confirmed Nov 8; Delivered March 6 ... Two days short of four months ... were we surprised? Yes Are we happy? Absolutely! Now I don't have to check here and the tracker several times pet day ... Keep the faith.

The wait is over for my purgatory truck, did not mind the initial wait from the ordering process. Dec.4th placed the order, confirmed on Dec.9th with a build date and Vin#. First build date was 1-31, moved to 2-9 received email on the 10th that it was built! Fantastic right? Delivery on 2-14 to 2-21 super! Then the wait to be delivered 70 miles on March 4th. that is where I couldn’t understand the delay. But it is here and the wait is over, good luck on all and the ones that are waiting. I’ll post up more photos of this 1% truck that Ford built for me.

Yep, the Escape hybrid is 400 pounds lighter than the plugin and available AWD also. It is also thousands cheaper and overall fuel mileage is pretty close. In fact the hybrid has a bigger fuel tank with more miles to the tank. However, if you drive less than 40 miles/day in heavy traffic, your gas will last for months with plugin.

You are correct FordBuyer. Historical reliability data from Consumer Reports show that Ford models equipped with the 2.5L Atkinson cycle 4-cylinder engine and HF35 power-split transmission are the most trouble-free Ford products in the "engine major", '"engine minor", "transmission major", and "transmission minor" categories. The new HF45 transmission should be just as reliable, unfortunately CR no longer separates model level ratings by powertrain. So for 2021 Ford Escape for example, there's just one rating for all Escapes, rather than separate ratings for Escape 1.5L, Escape Hybrid, and Escape 2.0L.

I mean, yes and no. While consumers vote with their dollars, at the same time, in 10 - 15 years, if some segments have only, or mostly electric vehicles, even people who normally wouldn't have bought an ev previously, will now buy an ev, or at least a hybrid. Case in point, my father. He's about as boomer as you can get, he used to subscribe to the no longer relevant argument that new, or complex tech was guaranteed to be unreliable. He was a textbook example of, I'll never trust hybrid or ev cars. However, after discussing with him how ford's hybrids often surpass the longevity of ford's strictly ICE powered vehicles, he's now on board to get a Maverick hybrid. People change all the time, there was a time when people were highly resistant to hybrids and evs, but that's changing very rapidly. If newer hybrids and evs can win over my father, trust me, they can win over just about anyone.

Farley's tenure as Ford CEO so far suggests the opposite is more likely. What he has planned for Ford in the context of transitioning to 100% electric vehicles is probably much more aggressive than what has been mentioned in Ford press releases or during investor presentations. Underpromise and overdeliver, in other words. Examples of how Ford overdelivered already. Amazing success of Mustang Mach-E product launch in 2021 following a somewhat rough start Signatory of COP26 declaration accelerating the transition to 100% zero emission cars and vans F-150 Lightning popularity so high that Ford had to stop taking reservations And of course, being first among incumbent automakers to separate BEV/advanced technology operations from legacy ICE vehicle operations as discussed in this thread Farley has a lot of work cut out for him to continue surprising investors, analysts, employees, and customers with accomplishments like these, while also continuing efforts to get Ford "fit". Expanding production capacity for Ford's BEV (including HV batteries) just to meet current demand is a monumental challenge by itself, as Farley mentioned earlier this year. However, there's good reason to be optimistic that Jim Farley will pull it off.

Picked up yesterday. Amazed with every aspect of it.