OKTB today..?

[ajmartineau]

I hope that is not the case. I think that would a marketing blunder (oh nevermind) by Ford to let two weeks go by after the media blitz before people could check out the car. To many people have the memory and attention span of a gnat these days.

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[dbsb3233]

I have been assuming Ford would/will have the MME arriving in showrooms on the 15th or 16th. I’m sure they have plenty of places to stage them around the country. I would be very surprised if they were all still sitting on the lot at the plant in Mexico.

There's tour vehicles (pre-production) making 1-day stops in many showrooms now.

https://mustangmachetour.com/

But as far as the FCTP demo cars, they're considered "sellable" vehicles (after some months/miles of being dealer demo units), and thus have the same restrictions on them about not leaving the plant until OKTB. I think your dates are probably a couple of weeks early for the first wave of regular showroom demos to start showing up.

They do keep adding more tour dates every few days though. Although oddly, just in a handful of states (NV, AZ, NM, CO, UT, NY, MA, NJ)

 

[dbsb3233]

I hope that is not the case. I think that would a marketing blunder (oh nevermind) by Ford to let two weeks go by after the media blitz before people could check out the car. To many people have the memory and attention span of a gnat these days.

Ford would no doubt love to have them in place already, but COVID has made shipping just as difficult as production.

Also remember that most of the 2021's are already snapped up with orders anyway. There was limited supply and high demand. While we still don't have official numbers, all indications are that a brand new customer trying to order one now is in for a long wait. So it's gonna be a long, contemplated decision anyway. The impulsive "run out tomorrow and buy one off the lot" buyers are out of the mix until maybe the 2022's.

 

[eastern refugee]

There's just a lot of churn involved with shipping so many vehicles out. It's not like a private transfer that could probably cover the 1800 miles to SoCal in 3-4 days. They're dealing with large batches. There's probably 4000+ at the plant right now. When they get the shipping operation flowing (if they haven't already), many hundreds per day will be going out. That's a lot of loading and unloading time. Most will probably go by train, and may require multiple train transfers. Then all the offloading and reloading to local transport. Or perhaps some longhaul truck in there too (there were some reports of shipping thousands to Kansas City first, then reshipping in the US/Canada from there). And even after local transport, dealers probably take a day or two to process and prep the vehicle.

2 weeks for some deliveries closer to Mexico might be doable. But I think 3-4 weeks was the more common estimate for most of the US/Canada. And that's not really counting backlog that's building at the plant now.

this will be fascinating as my dealer Galpin sells so many cars that they have their own railroad yard in their delivery lot.99% of their cars get delivered by rail directly into their lot. Crazy stuff.

 

[SnBGC]

this will be fascinating as my dealer Galpin sells so many cars that they have their own railroad yard in their delivery lot.99% of their cars get delivered by rail directly into their lot. Crazy stuff.

What does it say in the ramp one box on your window sticker?

 

[eastern refugee]

What does it say in the ramp one box on your window sticker?

Here is my sticker. RH 27. Not sure what that means.

http://www.windowsticker.forddirect.com/windowsticker.pdf?vin=3FMTK3SUXMMA06556

 

[SnBGC]

Here is my sticker. RH 27. Not sure what that means.

http://www.windowsticker.forddirect.com/windowsticker.pdf?vin=3FMTK3SUXMMA06556

According to the window sticker, your car will arrive at the dealership via truck transport.

 

[jlauro]

There's tour vehicles (pre-production) making 1-day stops in many showrooms now.

https://mustangmachetour.com/

Feels a lot like Tesla (actually Tesla is a lot closer than this)
Closest is 500 miles away... I might be willing to go 100, but not 500...

 

[ChasingCoral]

I have been assuming Ford would/will have the MME arriving in showrooms on the 15th or 16th. I’m sure they have plenty of places to stage them around the country. I would be very surprised if they were all still sitting on the lot at the plant in Mexico.

They are all sitting around in lots in Cuautitlan.

 

[ChasingCoral]

Ford would no doubt love to have them in place already, but COVID has made shipping just as difficult as production.

Also remember that most of the 2021's are already snapped up with orders anyway. There was limited supply and high demand. While we still don't have official numbers, all indications are that a brand new customer trying to order one now is in for a long wait. So it's gonna be a long, contemplated decision anyway. The impulsive "run out tomorrow and buy one off the lot" buyers are out of the mix until maybe the 2022's.

Agreed. Remember people with September orders are getting late February build dates.

 

[eastern refugee]

According to the window sticker, your car will arrive at the dealership via truck transport.

how do you know that???

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

how do you know that???

Down in the lower left part of the sticker it says, “Rail.”

 

[machefan]

Down in the lower left part of the sticker it says, “Rail.”

Just like this

 

[jlauro]

Down in the lower left part of the sticker it says, “Rail.”

If Rail means truck, what does it say if by train?

 

[Gimme_my_MME]

If Rail means truck, what does train say?

I know this one

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