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

[Kamuelaflyer]

So if you get a VIN from your dealer by early October, your car will likely be in the first batch shipped from the plant.

The next time I hear from the dealer will be when my car has been sitting on their lot for a week or more. Seriously, if Ford isn’t providing that information directly, I’ll never know it.

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[Kamuelaflyer]

This is one other thing you get to “risk.“ 1987 barge of cars wrecked on the Hamakua coast. Yeah that was the last time they lost a load of cars. But they do lose other things.

 

[GoGoGadgetMachE]

This is one other thing you get to risk. 1987 barge of cars wrecked on the Hamakua coast.

"and I just finished paying it off!"

 

[dbsb3233]

My ONLY tiny concern.....is the exterior size. I think most people are going to think it's too small. It is easy to forget these things don't have engines, transmissions, exhaust systems and fuel tanks so all that extra space can be reallocated to passenger compartment space. In some ways a BEV is like a TARDIS....bigger on the inside.

Not so much the Mach-e though. The long/hefty Mustang nose was retained. But yes, many BEVs have the short nose and look small (probably in part to save weight too). Even the Model Y has a frumpy low slope nose making it look less substantial.

 

[highland58]

Not so much the Mach-e though. The long/hefty Mustang nose was retained. But yes, many BEVs have the short nose and look small (probably in part to save weight too). Even the Model Y has a frumpy low slope nose making it look less substantial.

I would call it ugly rather than less substantial, somewhat frog like, although not as much as my wife's LEAF - she thinks it's cute though.

 

[TheSteelRider]

I would call it ugly rather than less substantial, somewhat frog like, although not as much as my wife's LEAF - she thinks it's cute though.

TFL said it best .. a catfish.

 

[MerryBrown]

I agree with everything you said in your post. For ME, though, I'm hoping this car isn't too BIG (on the outside). I'm sure it'll be fine, but I've gotten so used to parking my tiny Fiesta hatchback!

I was just looking at the measurements to see how much of a challenge it will be to get it inside my garage!

 

[Kamuelaflyer]

I was just looking at the measurements to see how much of a challenge it will be to get it inside my garage!

I had it laid out in the stall it goes in. Just enough room to not run into the bikes nor pose a danger should one fall off the wall rack (a virtual, but not absolute, impossibility). Then my wife moved the marker. Now it doesn't fit.

 

[ChasingCoral]

TFL said it best .. a catfish.

 

[Tsand4]

how many others things we take for granted for in life we was not able to buy during this

Give a company a chance. Adapt, overcome, patience

Excellent point trutolife27. I had intended to buy my wife a bicycle for Mother's Day and started looking around in March. Finally found one and brought it home this past weekend! 6 months for a bike, I can survive the wait for my FE.

 

[makooy]

If you are taking delivery in Hawaii, you will wait a little longer than most. Your car will almost certainly travel by ship, and that is not the speediest method.

If Job 1 is just before Halloween, then a realistic OK To Buy might be Thanksgiving. The plant will not release any customer vehicle until OKTB. When OKTB is declared, every vehicle made will ship from the plant within days. Freight out of Mexico is not exactly fast, you are at the whim of Customs, but many people should get their cars in December. I would say Hawaii might be January, unless you get favorable timing on an outbound ship or someone at Ford REALLY likes you.

VIN assignment can be as much 6 weeks before the car is physically produced. So if you get a VIN from your dealer by early October, your car will likely be in the first batch shipped from the plant.

uhm. I don’t know for sure but there isn’t just USA on this earth
What about Europe for example? Looks like most USA-people forget that

Some heard that delivery take place in Europe in Feb, others heard March.
Should take at least 30 days with boat from Port of Veracruz to Port of Oostende/Bremerhaven/Rotterdam.
Then about 2 more weeks for local transport and paperwork, then 1-2 weeks for dealer to deliver.

Havent seen anyone from other continents here(like Asia for example).
still I’m curious if the Mach-E is only sold in USA/Canada/Europe or that it’s sold globally.

 

[macchiaz-o]

uhm. I don’t know for sure but there isn’t just USA on this earth
What about Europe for example? Looks like most USA-people forget that

Some heard that delivery take place in Europe in Feb, others heard March.
Should take at least 30 days with boat from Port of Veracruz to Port of Oostende/Bremerhaven/Rotterdam.
Then about 2 more weeks for local transport and paperwork, then 1-2 weeks for dealer to deliver.

Besides USA? There is also Canada, Mexico, and Texas.

Just teasing. We haven't forgotten about you. Or at least, I haven't forgotten. I've been to Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. I should get back there and go further north, eh?

 

[makooy]

Besides USA? There is also Canada, Mexico, and Texas.

Just teasing. We haven't forgotten about you. Or at least, I haven't forgotten. I've been to Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. I should get back there and go further north, eh?

Isnt Texas a part of USA? Or did I miss something?
Rheinland-Pfalz is about 300km(200mi) south-east of where I live

im really curious when the first Mach-E’s are delivered to Europe and when the first customers receive them

 

[Calvin4000]

im really curious when the first Mach-E’s are delivered to Europe and when the first customers receive them

You're not the only one.... ?

No news good news... but now, it is really no news at all....

 

[portlandg]

Isnt Texas a part of USA? Or did I miss something?
Rheinland-Pfalz is about 300km(200mi) south-east of where I live

im really curious when the first Mach-E’s are delivered to Europe and when the first customers receive them

join the (waiting patiently) club

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