Good news, finally
May. 13th, 2022 02:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
altivoToday Ford informed me (at 7 pm) that my 2022 Maverick was built today and is about to undergo final inspection and testing. After that it gets shipped by rail from Hermosillo Mexico to my Ford dealer here in Illinois. Estimate on that is three to four weeks time. All in all, that adds up to almost exactly TEN months from a confirmed order to actual delivery of the vehicle.
I looked up the estimated trade-in value of my 2016 Fusion and was very surprised at how high it is. There has been a lot of talk in the news about used car prices skyrocketing in the recent months, and this might be proof. I paid $13K for the Fusion, used, last September. Granted I've not put a lot of miles on it in the interim, but even so, the estimated trade-in supplied by Ford's website is in the range of $9K to $11K. The high end of that is about half the total cost of the new truck.
Anyway, the waiting should be just about over with. Talk is that US automakers are pushing to go to ALL custom orders like that from buyers, rather than letting dealers order "stock" to display and sell from their lots. I suspect with wait times like this, that just isn't going to fly very well with either the customers or the dealers.
[Edit, May 13] Moving fast now. They've already "shipped" it, or so they say. I suspect that means it has been loaded onto a railroad car, not necessarily that it has yet left the factory. But their estimated arrival date here is second week of June. That'll do.
I looked up the estimated trade-in value of my 2016 Fusion and was very surprised at how high it is. There has been a lot of talk in the news about used car prices skyrocketing in the recent months, and this might be proof. I paid $13K for the Fusion, used, last September. Granted I've not put a lot of miles on it in the interim, but even so, the estimated trade-in supplied by Ford's website is in the range of $9K to $11K. The high end of that is about half the total cost of the new truck.
Anyway, the waiting should be just about over with. Talk is that US automakers are pushing to go to ALL custom orders like that from buyers, rather than letting dealers order "stock" to display and sell from their lots. I suspect with wait times like this, that just isn't going to fly very well with either the customers or the dealers.
[Edit, May 13] Moving fast now. They've already "shipped" it, or so they say. I suspect that means it has been loaded onto a railroad car, not necessarily that it has yet left the factory. But their estimated arrival date here is second week of June. That'll do.
