I was wondering if it had more to do with my dealer not having many Mach-e orders. I've asked how many they had, but the guy is out for a day or two. They barely knew what the Mach-e was when I went there initially, so it seemed like I was probably one of a few orders, if not the first.
What I find interesting is a Feb build date for North American retail orders. I think we were expecting the plant to shift to production of overseas in mid to late January. The idea being that we aren't sure the plant would build right hand drive and left hand drive vehicles at the same time so thus the need to switch from NA to EU/UK production runs. However, if there are two production lines....then they could build NA vehicles on one line and EU/UK vehicles on the other. Or maybe it can be accomplished with a second shift.....(but not sure that is very practical idea though). We did recently confirm there are two basic departments, Trim and Chassis so it may simplify things a little bit compared to traditional methods. Also several hints about a visual camera system which is interesting. I wonder if they adapted this system to help with production?
Something sure changed at the plant i.e., schedules for geographic regions or more line capacity.
My guess is this means we will be seeing simultaneous NA and EU/UK production. That explains why an entire month of build dates were scheduled this week. I'm guessing they are leaving lots of space in the schedule for EU/UK vehicles.
I really have to wonder if conversion date and possibly even priority code make a difference.
