Current wait time for an ordered car (December, 2021)

[Bigfeets]

Some factors that appear to weigh on the production delivery time in US: a) dealer assigned priority(With $1500 deposit, I got 19 and want to know why so low), b) dealer advantage in Ford's ordering queue (I blindly chose a dealer near me.), c) Ford's allocations of total production to US customers(25K of 2021 go to US out of total production of ~65K, d) microchip shortages (worst last summer, said to be better now), e) battery shortages (undetermined), e) Ford's batch production runs that favor certain models (undetermined), f) rail and truck distribution problems (undetermined, seems to vary by State and distance of dealership), g) quality control (shipping incomplete, flawed, or damaged units that must be fixed before delivery to customer). No doubt there are more.

I am trying to get better understanding from the dealer that I ended up with about a) and b). This website may help with understanding the rest. I've found no enlightenment regarding c), Ford's production distribution algorithm.

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[Bigfeets]

Or you could just plan for the time estimate that Ford has published on their website.

Some factors that appear to weigh on the production delivery time in US: a) dealer assigned priority(With $1500 deposit, I got 19 and want to know why so low), b) dealer advantage in Ford's ordering queue (I blindly chose a dealer near me.), c) Ford's allocations of total production to US customers(25K of 2021 go to US out of total production of ~65K, d) microchip shortages (worst last summer, said to be better now), e) battery shortages (undetermined), e) Ford's batch production runs that favor certain models (undetermined), f) rail and truck distribution problems (undetermined, seems to vary by State and distance of dealership), g) quality control (shipping incomplete, flawed, or damaged units that must be fixed before delivery to customer). No doubt there are more.

I am trying to get better understanding from the dealer that I ended up with about a) and b). This website may help with understanding the rest. I've found no enlightenment regarding c), Ford's production distribution algorithm. Elsewhere on this forum, it was said that Ford allocated less than half of total MME production (~65K) to US and that half of total US deliveries (~25K) went to ZEV States, and the other half to all the rest. I hope to be better informed rather than just dumbly wait and wait and wait. (Ford's estimated delivery time estimate for new order Premium MME is 28 weeks, 196 days, ~6.5 months.)