When Will Ford Announce They Can't Make All 2022 Maverick Orders

[TacoHolder]

They will build them all eventually, just not for MY22. To answer the OP's question, they will never make such an announcement.

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[xlt-doug]

It will be announced August 15. You can hold me to that

 

[CZaugg]

Sub-question: When they do deliver someones MY22 Maverick so far into 2022 that technically the car is a model year old at the time of delivery (summer '21-spring '22) and the truck takes that depreciation hit as soon as it rolls off the lot............how many customers will refuse to buy it at that point?

Good point. The question is then, if that being the case, would it be wise to cancel MY22 order and turn around and place an order for the MY23? However, surely the price will be higher for just a year change, unless there are substantial changes justifying the price increase. That doesn't sound likely though. So those who now have their Mavericks are the only ones reaping the true depreciation hit. Bummer!

 

[Hoagus]

I'm thinking they'll announce it sometime in late July or early August. I'll go with late in the day on Aug 5th since it's a Friday and people will have the weekend to cool down.

‘they’ll do it piecemeal, one notification at a time.

 

[TSAINTS1115]

Good point. The question is then, if that being the case, would it be wise to cancel MY22 order and turn around and place an order for the MY23? However, surely the price will be higher for just a year change, unless there are substantial changes justifying the price increase. That doesn't sound likely though. So those who now have their Mavericks are the only ones reaping the true depreciation hit. Bummer!

All hypothetical of course.............one possibility is the late delivery trucks be classified as the first of MY23 with locked in prices based on order date.

Who knows. We'll see.

 

[Maverstang]

That wasn't the question. The comment was that Ford was building at capacity and they are not. Regardless of their plan to build only 80k , they have the capacity to more then double that if they had a decent supply chain. Besides I heard initially their plan was to build closer to 100k but unfortunately they planned approximately 70% being Ecco Boost....between supply chain issues and the fact they totally missed on their forecast for which truck folks wanted...Ford like many other auto companies also misjudged the recovery from the pandemic (how quickly folks would start buying vehicles)and let the semiconductor factories focus on game chips ( for XBox and the sort) rather then on automotive chips. Auto makers held off on getting their orders in for chips and when they did figure it out many of the semiconductor factories had taken orders for the games and elctronic devices rather then automotive chips. Leadtimes on producing semiconductor chips in some cases are months. Ford screwed up bigtime and whoever does their forecasting missed the boat and obviously Ford has some piss poor planning based upon forecast to not have recoginized the trend for the Hybrids early on and adjusted...

Production planning is done well in advance, including the supply chain. In this case, the plan was set and suppliers contracted for the required volume (the planned capacity). Production continues according to plan, even though an unexpected sell out occurred (which is due to a botched forecast, on that we agree).

Sometimes production can be increased but only if both materials capacity and production capacity (including labor) are available. In this case it’s clear the supply chain couldn’t expand beyond the contracted volumes (not a surprise these days), even if the factory had build capacity, otherwise Ford wouldn’t have capped orders.

Currently it looks like they are building units at the planned capacity.

 

[Deleted member 1483]

When? The day before my order would be scheduled.

 

[lastwgn]

Ford never planned to build 150k units in the first place. More like 80k, and at 7k per month, seems pretty close to plan. The 22MY Maverick is sold out, so naturally it will take the remainder of the model year to build them.

Ford’s biggest problem was grossly underestimating the demand in what can only be described as a massive market forecasting failure.

Bingo! Massive marketing forecasting failure!

 

[DryHeat]

When Will Ford Announce They Can't Make All 2022 Maverick Orders?

June 24th, 2022, in honor of the first anniversary of my order.

Regardless of their plan to build only 80k , they have the capacity to more then double that if they had a decent supply chain. Besides I heard initially their plan was to build closer to 100k

I agree that they are unlikely to build more than they originally planned, and are likely to have trouble even doing that with supply chain issues. But... as to what they originally planned ... if you look around the forum, you'll see people quoting "automotive experts" saying that Ford planned to build 80k, or planned to build 110k, or... whatever. No one seems to really know.

Sub-question: When they do deliver someones MY22 Maverick so far into 2022 that technically the car is a model year old at the time of delivery (summer '21-spring '22) and the truck takes that depreciation hit as soon as it rolls off the lot............how many customers will refuse to buy it at that point?

Sixteen. I'm pretty sure it will be sixteen.

 

[LineNoise]

Who says they can’t?

Hermosillo is building Mavericks at near capacity rates now.

Nobody is building anything at capacity these days.

 

[Skeeter163]

Ford said today they were cutting back on production at 8 that’s eight plants and one in Mexico. All due to chips shortage.

 

[Maverstang]

Nobody is building anything at capacity these days.

Maverick is currently being built at planned capacity, around 7k per month.

Of course there is still time for something to go wrong before 22MY close out, but so far so good. The main concern at the moment appears to be a production mix biased toward Ecoboost models, we’ll have to see if that gets cleared up over the next few months.

 

[LowLeadAV]

What do we win if we get it right? A FITS kit?

Bigger question is what do you do with the fits kit if you have no truck to fit it in

 

[Vols44]

Sub-question: When they do deliver someones MY22 Maverick so far into 2022 that technically the car is a model year old at the time of delivery (summer '21-spring '22) and the truck takes that depreciation hit as soon as it rolls off the lot............how many customers will refuse to buy it at that point?

And then I want to see them collect dust on dealer lots while MY23 customers ordered this August roll off the car carriers and into driveways and garages.

 

[Maverick2023]

No need to announce. Just watch what‘s been happening. The writing is on the wall.

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