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I know you want answers from Ford, but it is your dealer who owes you communication. Ford is not allowed by law to sell you a vehicle. They sell to dealers and dealers sell to you. They don't make a vehicle to your specs because you ordered one, they make one because a dealer put in an order at...

Most shops treat oil changes as a loss leader (or barely break even) so oil changes are usually a pretty good deal. Customers understand oil changes and shop around, and then once they find a place they like they do all of their servicing there. You'll often see shops (including dealers) with...

Give it a few months and there should be soft tri fold options on Amazon for $250-$300. I mainly want a cover to keep things from flying out of the bed as well as some weather protection.

40% is a constraint because more than 40% of orders are for hybrids. If they could build 40% hybrids but only 30% of orders were hybrids they would not list it as a constraint. They can build 40 out of every 100 trucks with a hybrid powertrain, but since that is fewer than what customers are...

Making chips is a completely different kind of manufacturing than making cars, and Ford has zero expertise coming into it. Even major tech companies do not manufacture their own chips. Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook all have custom chip designs but outsource the actual manufacturing. There...

The hard tops are all pretty similar in the way they mount to the truck. The hard part is usually lifting it off (once you have removed the bolts) and storing the topper when not in use. One idea is to build a hoist/hanger in your garage. The idea is that you unbolt the top, slides some straps...

Some people are assuming that the constraints multiply together, so if you order an XLT Hybrid with Luxury package you get 40% (for the hybrid) × 20% (for the XLT Lux) = 8% of builds can have this pair of features. Does anyone actually know how it works? I would assume they are independent...

I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the problem with spray-in liners was due to a chemical shortage. The chemical is produced at a factory in Texas that was damaged in the big snow storm a few months back.

I know this is a joke and I'm not trying to pick on the poster, but I always wonder how we all came to care so much about the "official" start of seasons, and even more how we arrived on astronomical seasons as the standard to follow. This is the idea that summer and winter start on the...

I guessed it was something like that--thanks for looking into it and sharing your findings. It seems pretty misleading to call it MSRP. The salient point here is that they are doing this with 100% of their vehicles. I've seen similar tactics at other local dealers. If I decided I didn't want to...

There seems to be a lot of randomness just because the build capacity is low as production ramps up. It's pretty hard to ever know if removing an option pushed you ahead in the line, or if you just got a lucky roll of the dice. My personal take is that I expect overall production to ramp up in...

I'm curious, too. If you figure it out please share. Here's the page of Ranger results: https://www.stgeorgeford.com/all-inventory/index.htm?compositeType=new&make=Ford&model=Ranger

I checked my local Ford dealer's website for Rangers. They have a couple in stock at grossly-inflated prices. A typical example is an XLT with a sticker price of $42k, but they are listing it as having an MSRP of $56k. I only saw the original MSRP when I pulled up the window sticker. No...

I think this looks a lot worse than the real thing. In case anyone cares, the buttresses on the back are not "flying buttresses" (this is a common mistake any time anyone talks about the old Ridgeline), they are just plain buttresses. A flying buttress a specific kind of buttress that forms an...

I forgot about the Lariat and it's 18" wheels. I don't see a 225/60R18 so Lariat folks with the larger rims will not have the option for a 1:1 size match. At least not yet--they are still rolling out new sizes. I'd love to see a direct comparison between these and the Falken Wildpeak AT Trail...

It looks like they have it in 225/65R17 so it should fit the same as the factory tires. They also have a 235/65R17/XL (I don't know what the XL means) that should match the size of the optional larger tires you can get from the factory. I wouldn't expect any rubbing at either of those sizes.

BFGoodrich has a brand new "Trail Terrain T/A" tire that seems like a good match for the Maverick. Seems like a direct competitor to the Falken Wildpeak AT Trail or the Cooper Discoverer AT3, for drivers that are mainly on road with light offroad use. Here's the BFG page on it...

I ordered on 6/21 and got confirmation within the hour. I've changed it a few times (from XL to XLT to XLT + Lux), but always hybrid. No build date yet, but I'm not too concerned. I'd rather skip the first month or two of production while they iron out the kinks. I expect a continued trickle of...

Something I noticed on both my wife's CR-V and my old Accord: eco mode makes a big difference when using cruise control. A lot of cars freak out when they go up a hill and the speed drops a bit--they immediately downshift and rev up really high to get to the target speed and it can be a bit...

A couple additional notes: Heat rejection is not the same as visible light rejection. Each film will have separate ratings for light rejection and heat rejection. Good quality films will reject a lot of heat even with relatively little light rejection, and you generally get diminishing returns...