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You really badly need to find a different dealer than Ford Nation, as they are either incompetent or are crooks. Get on the Ford chat and explain the situation to them, and reorder with another dealer and see if they can get you their highest priority code. Also, sue the crap dealer.

Its really hard to do a test drive when there are none available at any of the dealers within a 45 minute driving radius. Virtually everyone orders them without a test drive.

Yeah, that's only 30,000 Mavs, or nowhere near enough to even build the unfulfilled MY23 vehicles in MY24 and maybe even MY25. If they add in dealer stock, fleet, phev, awd hybrids and held-off purchases, they're going to need 10x that much production capacity.

That would only make sense if the frustrated Customers were only moving to other Fords. Looking over this site, its pretty easy to see that they are in upset with Ford mismanagement, and are fact moving to anything except Ford. GM and Nissan are getting their business instead.

Oakville is ending Edge production this year. Flint Rock used to make Mustangs. The Escape is rumoured to be ending production soon at Hermasillo. Nobody is buying the Fiesta or Focus that are mostly made in Europe. Fire up the mothballed original Dearborn plant. Volkswagon has purchased...

Just looking at the production numbers, it seems like Ford is not going to ever catch up their Maverick production capacity to their outstanding orders. This extreme lack of capacity is especially obvious for the hybrid production. Some people still do not have their 2021 orders built. It...

Why are you using 3-season rims for winter tires? Nobody should do that in Canada or the northern U.S. states. Salt water is full of clorine, which attacks aluminum rims rapidly. You should be running steelies for winter, which only react with clorine very slowly and will outlast the vehicle.

You're partially correct about the cylinder pressures, ignoring bad head and piston design, hotspots, uniform mixture dispersion, otto/atkinson/miller/diesel/other cycle, etc. Engines for the last 35+ years have used high compression to get much better highway cruise economy, and I cannot think...

That has definitely not been my experience. Maybe you have a large number of people in your area who do not use the correct oils, or do not change it until the engine falls over. The "huge number of Eco boost cylinder heads" in the first generation (2013-2015) 2.0 engines were due to a gasket...

Geez, using that line of thought, the hybrid at 13:1 compression should fall over after a week of operation. Clearly that is not the case. If your ECU cannot manage the fuel mixture properly just because it is retarding under load, then there is something seriously wrong with either your ECU...

Buy certified clean fuel (known as "top-tier fuel). No, you do not ever need premium fuel, unless you really need the extra 5hp that it will give you for some weird reason. I've never had to blow out the carbon, add crap to the fuel, or any other additives. The 2.0 EcoBoost engine in my 2013...

You're driving a square truck - the aerodynamic drag of a brick is probably somewhat better. The parasitic air drag losses go up as the square of the speed, along with several other smaller (but still very meaningful) losses. All you're doing is unnecessarily stressing the drivetrain and...

Sevsev, Thanks for the depressing news. That means I'm not going to last, and with the treadwear indicators showing, I'm going to have to put a new set of Michelin Pilots on the Fusion for the summer. Oh well, its only money that I could have used on the Maverick. FYI, I ordered through the...

The Canadian orderes were never closed off like the U.S. ones were. I confirmed this with 2 dealerships. I'm not sure why American are getting more restrictive ordering rules than Canadians.

Are there any builds completed for vehicles actually ordered in 2023, or are they still building 2022 and the cancelled/re-ordered 2023 trucks that were ordered in 2021 and 2022? I pulled the trigger and ordered a Hybrid XLT in February, and don't see any means of estimating a realistic delivery...

I sold my routinely overloaded red 87 XLT supercab for $2k, with 744k miles on it, 2 junkyard rear-ends due to bearing failures, 5 windshields, 2 rust-through repairs at the windshield and 3 paint jobs. Overall, it was an awesome vehicle. It got 28mpg on the rock-solid V6, which is quite a bit...

I see the same order visibility problem from Ford Canada. I have the Ford purchase agreement sheet right in front of me, and there is no order number on it and no box for it. The only incomprehensible numbers that I see are the salesman and his boss's registration numbers, the dealer...