Been watching Undercover Boss reruns during the lockdown? ?
Does Tesla make curb feelers?
Same here. I'm coming from a Toyota highlander which I feel is too big for me. I want a much more compact vehicle with decent cargo capacity.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!
My ride is a mustang, but last week the wife and I went to the Jersey Shore for a couple of getaway days. We took her Durango to fit the beach chairs, beach cart, and luggage. To maximize profitability ALL the parking lots, street spaces, etc at the jersey shore are cramped into tiny little nooks and crannies - which was really difficult for me trying to maneuver a much bigger vehicle than what I'm used to. It convinced me that 360 cameras are a great idea, and that I hope the MME is not too big compared to my pony.
I grew up not far from the GM plant (now Tesla) in Fremont. I do recall the acres (literally) of cars sitting there at any given time. Normal parctice.The lots will be full of Mache down at the plant. They will wait tell oktb date. Then ship out. That is how it works with any launch with any manufacturer. I don't know if any of you live by a Vehicle manufacturing plant, but if you do and drive by. Your see vehicles everywhere waiting to ship.
When the silver dome in Pontiac Michigan closed. General motors used the massive parking lot for years to park finished vehicles before they shipped.
Demo model will start making soon, if not a few already. All the info i have passed on is true. Dates still are holding the same.
The funny thing is JD powers is considering Ford for meeting the goal of even sending any Mache out this year with what has happen with covid-19.
Other manufacturing are either saying there will be a big delay or even moving it to another year. I don't think some people understand how lucky we are ford is not more behind then they are.
This is our order bank.
ORDER BANK 8/23/20
SUPER DUTY
105,950
EXPEDITION
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NAVIGATOR
6,381
ORDER BANK 8/16/20
SUPER DUTY
102,198
EXPEDITION
21,933
NAVIGATOR
6,048
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Overtime is crazy right now Ford workers are working hard, long hours to get our vehicles to you guys. Here is a Bulletin on it.
These are all already customer sold orders, I doubt Ford is going to park them until some arbitrary date. Ford does need to complete the Fed crash safety ratings and EPA Mileage ratings hoops, but it still about 10 weeks before this First Edition run is complete.
Oh yeah, forgot about those. They'll be handy if Ford's are good. Had them on a Volvo XC90 in Europe and it was fantastic... And then years later on a Nissan in Pennsylvania/Maryland and it was all smudgy and lousy.
Except as has been stated previously that is not the case.
Note sure about EPA but I'm fairly confident crash test ratings don't have to happen before customers can buy the car.
The demo (FCTP) models can be shipped to dealers and driven by customers before OKTB. Right?
that is the big question right now I sent my friend waiting his response.
That's my question in all this... why is OKTB so late (Nov 23)? Why not Nov 2 or something? I just don't know what's involved with OKTB. Do they really need to make a month of customer units first to prove they can make them without problems?
OKTB is the have to make a certian amount of units and then they are inspected and have to pass.
That explains a lot. It's basically the inspection stage, not just Ford internal but especially all the government regulators. That makes sense. And helps explain why it takes as long as it does, and why they need a large volume of vehicles. I assume they randomly select some out of each batch to ensure statistically significant sampling.
