2 dealers. One of which said “forget it, you won’t get one” and on top of that, a whole lot of people on this site are still waiting over a year. No obviously you work for Ford and want to defend bad planning and purchasing errors. Go ahead, but it is obvious what your goal is
How about the 6000+ orders that just had a VIN and got rolled over to 2023. Likely all have been waiting a year+ including myself. I see you have just joined MTC. It may be worth looking at some of the historical posts related to wait times and rollovers. Ford.com closed 2022 hybrid orders in mid fall of 2021 while Ford.ca was into early 2022. Anyone who ordered in the US and hasn't yet received their Maverick are all over a year. A year may not be the average overall, but I don't think it's that far off.
This is a question I've been having since I've been seeing people say "'22s will be built in '23". If Ford is already building 2023s this month, will they build both the '22 models and '23 models at the same time next year? What was the point of canceling the '22s with a VIN assigned and causing a whole fiasco if they're just gonna build '22s in Jan and Feb?
Back in Sept 22, Dealer manager said he had 300 Maverick orders for 2022s and was getting 5 deliveries a month. That is a 60 per year turnaround on a five year fulfilment potential. New orders from this dealer are in total limbo unless allocations are changed. If there are really 5000 rollover orders left nationwide, Ford has a dilemma trying to get my order to me because of their archaic allocation system...what will ford do?! Who is misleading the customer?!
Frustrating because Ford has no problem saying they plan to build 150k F150 lightnings, but can't build half that many Mavericks because of supply chain.
But Ford keeps taking in the orders whether they have parts or dealer allocation to fill them. This IS Ford's dilemma they are making for themselves. We need to Stop blaming the customer for whining. Ford is in control or lack of it.
Ford has a lot more Lightning preorders (which they actually directly took people's money for) and is much more a flagship of their path forwards to electrification. That's why they're building a whole new plant expressly for future production of it.
I'd be willing bet that part of what got Ford to build the Maverick is to attract folks to the brand. Ford expects folks to trade up and stick around.
One only knows this if they are connected customers. What about the non-connected relying on Ford or Dealer communications? Amazon would be out of business if they did not communicate. But auto manufactures should get a pass. Really?
Yeah i get it... you don't deliver some Mavericks and largely your customer base is unaffected, however electric F150's? That's a problem for your brand.
I'm sure they're doing their best to estimate what they can realistically build which is why they closed the order banks after just a few days. I'm sure on paper they have a really good idea of how many units they can build. They have worked it out with their suppliers to receive XX,XXX amount of this and that in anticipation of building what they have orders for. If halfway through the year supplier A informs Ford that one of THEIR suppliers went out of business due to an inability to source raw materials at a competitive price what is Ford going to do? They're going to scramble to find an alternative suitable supplier and hope for the best. I don't blame Ford for their business practices. They're a publicly traded company, they have a legal obligation to do what's best for the shareholders which is to try and build/sell as many vehicles as possible and maintain profitability in the meantime. What are they supposed to do? Halve the number of orders they take because they MIGHT not be able to build everything they hope to build and sell just to appease the one or two people here and there who are disgruntled with the process? Right now for every person Ford disenfranchises because of a "lack of communication" or a lengthy wait they have 10 or 20 people chomping at the bit to buy a Maverick/Bronco/Lightning. Even if Ford did lower their estimated output for Mavericks for 2023 that would only drive up demand, lower supply and dealers would really have a field day with ADMs on the Maverick and the same people would STILL be complaining that Ford should have done something to produce more Mavericks.
Uhh, not according to Apple:
I wouldn’t bet the ranch, but there is at least a 30 percent chance you should be ok by 2124.
