WHAT IS FORD DOING!

[pxpaulx]

we’re getting finessed with the remains factory parts from the to be Discontinued Ford Ecosport, ford fusions and ford focus unused materials, turned into a marketing campaign called 40 MPG and 1 liter bottles with at least 3k dealer markups.

I'm sorry if you hadn't heard, but this isn't news or a new concept for literally every vehicle ever built.

You'll find the term 'parts bin' referenced in almost every single new car review for a reason!

The maverick has plenty of new concepts and content and is priced aggressively. By spring or summer next year everyone that has wanted and ordered one at this point will probably have it, and all the sky is falling threads like this will be gone so we can post cool things we are doing with our trucks.

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[dano0726]

I've more than doubled my initial Ford stock investment since my May/2020 buy-in; no other car manufacturer is anywhere close to what Ford has/is/will be releasing in the next couple of years (all during a global pandemic, economic slowdown, supply chain disruption) -- new F-150 Hybrid, Bronco Sport, Mach E, Bronco, F-150 Lightning, and Maverick...

I have confidence that others will need to catch up with Ford -- so I'm all in; Wife's Bronco Sport Badlands was delayed 3 times, but it arrived on Wife's birthday = she's happy...

I had reserved the damn Cybertruck, but I got my $100 returned after seeing what Ford will produce with the Lightning -- not all of us give a rat's @$$ about "self-driving autonomous features";

I just want a compact hybrid pickup that gets 40-50mpg in the city

 

[jcsan18]

Fall began a week ago.... but people were complaining way before that because their trucks aren't being scheduled/built before anyone else's. Nothing's changed. Pretty sure that no matter what Ford says, unless they specifically come out and say " No hybrids until *insert timeline here*" everything on the internet is hearsay or just plain wrong. Hybrids are being scheduled. Are they being scheduled at the same clip as EB's? Not at all. You'll get your truck. If you don't want to wait/have issues with Ford, get a Santa Cruz. Ford won't care and multiple people on here will be happy you cancelled/passed on your order.

People are funny.

So many Veruca Salts around here.

 

[adamgrattan]

Fall began a week ago.... but people were complaining way before that because their trucks aren't being scheduled/built before anyone else's. Nothing's changed. Pretty sure that no matter what Ford says, unless they specifically come out and say " No hybrids until *insert timeline here*" everything on the internet is hearsay or just plain wrong. Hybrids are being scheduled. Are they being scheduled at the same clip as EB's? Not at all. You'll get your truck. If you don't want to wait/have issues with Ford, get a Santa Cruz. Ford won't care and multiple people on here will be happy you cancelled/passed on your order.

People are funny.

So many Veruca Salts around here.

I will get the standard eco boost.

 

[TXM2]

And suddenly, some people grow dependent on something that does not even exist or have even tried yet...

 

[fordtruckguy]

Fall began a week ago.... but people were complaining way before that because their trucks aren't being scheduled/built before anyone else's. Nothing's changed. Pretty sure that no matter what Ford says, unless they specifically come out and say " No hybrids until *insert timeline here*" everything on the internet is hearsay or just plain wrong. Hybrids are being scheduled. Are they being scheduled at the same clip as EB's? Not at all. You'll get your truck. If you don't want to wait/have issues with Ford, get a Santa Cruz. Ford won't care and multiple people on here will be happy you cancelled/passed on your order.

People are funny.

So many Veruca Salts around here.

I think that’s the point. If Ford would have made the ecoboost standard and/or just said up front hybrid will have limited availability until 2022 the complaints would be far far fewer.

 

[jcsan18]

I think that’s the point. If Ford would have made the ecoboost standard and/or just said up front hybrid will have limited availability until 2022 the complaints would be far far fewer.

Fewer? Yes. Far, far fewer? Nah.

Nothing is ever good enough for some people. If they came out and said that they misjudged and were wrong in predicting interest in demand in a hybrid pickup, honest or not, it's an explanation, which a LOT of people on here have said that they have not gotten, and people are still bashing and criticizing Ford. But here again, every post about hybrid delays and whatnot have been speculation, with the exception of the one week where it came out that there would be no hybrid scheduling, but it's back to normal.

And unless I'm mistaken, even Tim Bartz said a looooooooooong time ago, when scheduling was first being mentioned, that the scheduling/build clip was going to be skewed towards EB's anyways.

 

[huunvubu]

I've more than doubled my initial Ford stock investment since my May/2020 buy-in; no other car manufacturer is anywhere close to what Ford has/is/will be releasing in the next couple of years (all during a global pandemic, economic slowdown, supply chain disruption) -- new F-150 Hybrid, Bronco Sport, Mach E, Bronco, F-150 Lightning, and Maverick...

I have confidence that others will need to catch up with Ford -- so I'm all in; Wife's Bronco Sport Badlands was delayed 3 times, but it arrived on Wife's birthday = she's happy...

I had reserved the damn Cybertruck, but I got my $100 returned after seeing what Ford will produce with the Lightning -- not all of us give a rat's @$$ about "self-driving autonomous features";

I just want a compact hybrid pickup that gets 40-50mpg in the city

Very Nice.

Ford stock was $4.90 in early May 2020 and currently at $14.07 for a 287% gain.

With your foresight in purchasing Ford stock when others were bailing and Ford's vision, which I totally agree with, you will probably have more gains coming over the next number of years.

Heck maybe you can even use some of your gains to buy your Ford vehicles outright.

 

[grumpyunk]

People gripe and complain. That is a standard, built-in feature.

I think the reservation system surprised FoMoCo a LOT. The ratio of ecoboost:hybrid was the flip or flop of what they planned on and expected. They must have hit the 'city dweller pickup' spot dead-on, that and the 30%+ fuel increase since january may have made them realize that fuel price is volatile, so planning on minimizing fuel expense was a "good thing".
Now all they need to do is to execute the plan. That, and maybe turn up the Twin Cities plant once again. I believe they are capacity constrained on multiple models: Bronco, Bronco Sport, and Maverick. The latter two may impact Escape production, though I am unsure. Nice to have the order books full, but if you cannot satisfy demand, the market will turn and turn to competitors' product, no matter how much they like yours...
tom

 

[brnpttmn]

People gripe and complain. That is a standard, built-in feature.

I think the reservation system surprised FoMoCo a LOT. The ratio of ecoboost:hybrid was the flip or flop of what they planned on and expected. They must have hit the 'city dweller pickup' spot dead-on, that and the 30%+ fuel increase since january may have made them realize that fuel price is volatile, so planning on minimizing fuel expense was a "good thing".
Now all they need to do is to execute the plan. That, and maybe turn up the Twin Cities plant once again. I believe they are capacity constrained on multiple models: Bronco, Bronco Sport, and Maverick. The latter two may impact Escape production, though I am unsure. Nice to have the order books full, but if you cannot satisfy demand, the market will turn and turn to competitors' product, no matter how much they like yours...
tom

Long gone. It's now the Highland Bridge development.

 

[adamgrattan]

People gripe and complain. That is a standard, built-in feature.

I think the reservation system surprised FoMoCo a LOT. The ratio of ecoboost:hybrid was the flip or flop of what they planned on and expected. They must have hit the 'city dweller pickup' spot dead-on, that and the 30%+ fuel increase since january may have made them realize that fuel price is volatile, so planning on minimizing fuel expense was a "good thing".
Now all they need to do is to execute the plan. That, and maybe turn up the Twin Cities plant once again. I believe they are capacity constrained on multiple models: Bronco, Bronco Sport, and Maverick. The latter two may impact Escape production, though I am unsure. Nice to have the order books full, but if you cannot satisfy demand, the market will turn and turn to competitors' product, no matter how much they like yours...
tom

Why was it a surprise? I thought that was the reason for the whole concept of this truck.

 

[jcsan18]

Hybrids and EV's aren't exactly blowing up all over the country. Not everyone is interested in that technology.

I've owned hybrids before, but I ordered an EB because I liked the EB's I've owned, but not everyone is interested in hybrids or fuel efficiency, no matter how affordable it is.

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