Update on Mach-E launch progress from engineering friends in Mexico

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But no place to go. :( F covid!
You don´t need a specific place. just drive around in your new electric pony for two or three days like I´ll do. ( ffs wife is calling AGAIN ? Can I set her on ignore in SYNC4 ? )
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Apparently my car has escaped the Body Shop and "woke" since Ford Pass is now showing the "Activate" button...
Ford Mustang Mach-E Update on Mach-E launch progress from engineering friends in Mexico {filename}
Further news: My production date popped up as today....
Ford Mustang Mach-E Update on Mach-E launch progress from engineering friends in Mexico 1608208862809

Next step for my car is for the window sticker to be "reprinted" so I can actually buy the thing LOL (Yup still says "Not for sale" on it).
 

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Further news: My production date popped up as today....
Ford Mustang Mach-E Update on Mach-E launch progress from engineering friends in Mexico 1608208862809

Next step for my car is for the window sticker to be "reprinted" so I can actually buy the thing LOL (Yup still says "Not for sale" on it).
Where does it say that? Need to look at mine more carefully.
 

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I'm just trying to understand the logic of keeping 4000 vehicles in Mexico as opposed to say, moving 2500 of these into secure parking in the Central US. The biggest bottleneck/logistics cost is getting them out of Mexico. The quality gating mechanism can be performed in the US.

Now if the initial 4000-5000 batch was entirely allocated to the Southwest/West Coast, I could see why moving them all at once would make sense.

But we know based on FE self reported orders on this forum/published ETAs that the orders are promising delivery all over the US, so the initial batch can't be soaked up entirely by the sun belt.

What am I missing here?
 

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Mine doesn’t says not for sale..?
I cannot find that anywhere on mine either. But . . . I have been known to miss details (just ask my wife). Hence the question of where it appears on the sticker.
 

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So what exactly is the holdup then?
@trutolife27 has an insider's view, and is the one that's been feeding us correct information for months. Presumably the rail cars they had allocated for a november 23rd shipment were reallocated by the shipper elsewhere instead of having them sit there idle for the minor QC issue to get straightened out, and now they can't get them back. The rail cars aren't owned by Ford, so the best they can do is bribe and threaten to get them back, but they don't have a lot of leverage:

A lot more going on behind the scenes than you know. Things don't always go as planned. Yes, it was laid out but things have happened.

One rail company was down 70% workforce. How are you going to do anything with no workers?
Half and I say half of the fast-food restaurants where I live are not open. They can't get enough healthy people.


Tesla is shutting down two lines to help with the problems they are having. Covid has done a number on everything.
 

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I cannot find that anywhere on mine either. But . . . I have been known to miss details (just ask my wife). Hence the question of where it appears on the sticker.
The earlier Route 1 stickers had it emblazoned on them since the EPA numbers for it came out after the rest of the models. When my Route 1's label was generated late last week it had the EPA numbers instead of "do not ship"
 

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The earlier Route 1 stickers had it emblazoned on them since the EPA numbers for it came out after the rest of the models. When my Route 1's label was generated late last week it had the EPA numbers instead of "do not ship"
Got it. Could not find that anywhere - not that I am "buying" the sticker.
 

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Got it. Could not find that anywhere - not that I am "buying" the sticker.
:p

The concern was that the Route 1's with that on the sticker would get left behind in Mexico while the rest of the cars were loaded up to be shipped
 

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I’m having a hard time remembering or finding....if we have been told a “Scheduled to Date” by our dealer, does that mean it starts the line or rolls off the line on the date? My Week of Build is 12/20 and my scheduled to date is 12/22
 

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