This happened to me just now. I put my 3 small kids 5-8 in the back seat, turned on the truck, and BAM! it was insanely loud and it freaked out all 3 kids. I turned off the truck and pulled them all out and shut the door.
The noise went on for about 5+ minutes and eventually stopped. I opened...
It sucks but that's the norm. I've purchased 3 other new cars and had to paid that stupid fee...EVEN thought they were sitting on the lot. The Maverick is the only one I've actually ordered.
I think what ended up happening is Ford took some stuff out of the either the Lariat or Lux and made them standalone options. Supposedly it was to streamline manufacturing and pump them out sooner.
I hear about that when they rolled my order from the 22' to a 23'. I ended up calling the...