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Government and fleet ordering is still open, so there's however many more that will be in the way of me getting my truck.

I can just tell I'm going to have to put new tires on the car I'm supposed to replace with the Maverick. I was hoping to not have to but I would prefer not to die before getting the truck.

The supply chain doesn't need to break completely to really goon things up. All of these hybrids getting pushed back means they will be taking up manufacturing capacity later, pushing things back for those that would have been being built. Time is probably the most finite resource in this whole...

Yeah...I'm looking forward to stories about the Lightning rollout. Should be a wakeup call to Ford that people expect them to be awful, but Ford is more focused on making me happy as a shareholder than making me happy as a customer.

Ford said they'd sell me a truck, and then proceeded to do a bunch of buffoonery that is well-recorded all over this site. The ordering process is stupid. The communication is grossly insufficient for what consumers expect these days. They were also completely taken by surprise that people...

Neat, as long as they can actually build the things.

Wish I were as confident they'll get the 22 orders done on time. We're going to be at a time soon where there will be no buffer to account for shortages holding up production, and the hybrid version seems to be built out of 100% constraints.

I doubt it matters much where the trucks are built in terms of materials constraints. It's a global economy and even if the US starts producing more chips and chemicals and all the other things, these things are short everywhere and Ford would still be competing for materials. Even if the...

Area 51 is going to look very dated in a few years. Other manufacturers have also got blue-green-gray colors that are pretty popular now.

I still haven't seen a good answer on what will happen if they don't get to orders this year. I really can't imagine they'll give priority to them, and will carry on doing their best to schedule builds for the max profit rather than max Churaumi happiness.

I wonder if this accounts for all the hybrids we've seen get pushed back, as well?

Turns out we misunderstood something. I thought the plan was to build 60% ecoboosts and 40% hybrids. Turns out they meant they'd build 60% of planned ecoboosts and 40 hybrids.

I quit being excited a long time ago.

Pretty much guaranteed now that they are scheduling clean up for the last week of Q1. My salesman said I'd most likely be in mine by Christmas so that just goes to show no one knew anything.

They're not going to pick me. Hybrid Lux.

Lame unless they pick me. Then it's the best week yet.

So another clean up week? Lame.

I wish I could be as optimistic as a lot of people here. I have to admit this whole experience has soured me on Ford. If they can't get my order to me before other manufacturers get on board with competing products, I'm putting in orders at each and whoever gets it to me first gets the sale.

I think there's a difference between "limited edition" and "rare." One is a matter of intentionally limiting production, the other is Ford being unable to source parts for my truck.

.......they aren't even building the orders they have, let alone catching up. I don't think Ford did their homework on what realistically can be supplied in the current world. Seems like bad timing for everyone. Ford obviously overestimated the availability of parts, customers overestimated...