I'm not saying they don't sell them, but I've noticed a few of the same Platinum ones sitting there at least 6 months. The fact is sales will continue to go down slowly year after year at this point. If we go by the last 5 years within 5 years the average ATP on a mid-level F150 will hovering around $80k. Middle class just can't swing that anymore. Of course it's exactly what one group in DC wants. Drive prices so high people can no longer own a personal vehicle and have to rely totally on the government for transportation.
That’s a small part on why I didn’t get a truck when my lease expired couldn’t find what I wanted (XLT powerboost Lux max tow package). The only 3 powerboost f-150s the dealer had at the time were already sold and none of them were really what I wanted.
Didn’t matter anyway, the sales guy kept trying to upsell the hell out of me and I wasn’t about to double my monthly payment for a bunch of stuff I didn’t want.
I’ll keep driving my “commodity” product until either the wheels fall off or the transmission needs a second rebuild
I do wonder if Ford will eventually limit dealers to allocation requests only. Other manufacturers (Toyota) do not allow for custom orders. You can try to request a certain package and color combination for allocation, but by no means is it guaranteed. They just send the dealer an allocation list of vehicles they’ll be receiving and you get what you get.
I had an LS V8 for about 15 years and loved it. Cosmetically, it was in pristine condition inside and out, but it became a mechanical nightmare toward the end and sat idle for a couple years. I finally got rid of it last summer. When it ran well, it was a lot of fun. It was a beast in the corners. Nice little Jaguar V8 roar, even if it wasn't the quickest.
You have that wrong on Wyoming. Wyoming is a minimum of 28% Visible Light Transmission, i.e. 72% tinted. https://codes.findlaw.com/wy/title-31-motor-vehicles/wy-st-sect-31-5-962/
70% VLT is the highest of any of the states and D.C., so the Ford factory tint meets tint requirements in all 50 states and D.C. by allowing a minimum of 70% VLT. There is nothing that should need to be done. It is legal everywhere.
I've seen people that have started taking those "return postage paid" letters and putting them on boxes they fill with rocks and ship them back to make them pay for it.
Where/how does New York fit into this? You mentioned Wyoming (WY), so I can’t seem to connect New York to this. Anyway, 70% transparency means 30% tint, so what is the issue, since in NY it is compliant?
In Wyoming, the law says 72% transparency (28% tint), but the label says 70% minimum, which means it could be in compliance if someone wanted to test it.
My junk mail is getting exhausting too. Always credit card applications, real estate agents, and life insurance applications. All of it goes straight into the shredder as soon as I get back to the house.
That would be fun to watch but in the end only the teams with the deepest pockets win and the cost to compete would be astronomical by using so many super expensive materials and engineering resources.
The new hypercars are roughly 25% of the cost of the previous ones and that cost was what caused most of the mfrs to pull out a few years ago.