Employee discount for Ford trucks

I was able to beat the X-plan deals on both of my F150s. It wasn't a cake walk, but I don't think I negotiated any better than the average Joe could have. Had to walk out a couple of times though mostly because I kept talking myself out of it.

Ford, FCA, and GM all offer employee discounts which are a part of the UAW contract. The employee price is printed on the actual invoice to the dealer and the dealer is paid a stipend to sell the vehicle to the employee at this price minus any incentives currently in place including dealer cash and consumer cash. In addition there are other discount prices offered by the manufacturers such as Friends and Family, supplier discounts, etc. Employee prices are also made available for the employee to pass on to immediate family.

A properly executed employee price deal is the lowest possible price one will pay for a vehicle. Some dealers will occasionally sell to the public at prices lower than the employee price by subtracting a portion of current incentives to lower the price to the printed employee price. In actuality this price will not be equivalent to the then current employee price because the consumer does not receive the entire incentive as an employee would.

Dealer's often take advantage of this possibility and the consumer is not in fact receiving the current actual employee price as represented.

I work for a company that offers "employee pricing" on GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, and Honda vehicles. When I purchased my last new vehicle, I was able to get a slightly better price by not using the "employee pricing" plan.

My father in law used the x discount recently. I wasn't too impressed with the price, though.

X plan is for people who have a connection with an employee.

I can get an X from my sister-in-laws mother-in-law, surviving spouse of a deceased A-plan retiree, if she hasn't given them all away to her own kids and grandkids.

I can get an X discount as a retiree of a Ford partner/client company, but I cannot generate an X PIN for anyone else. Even when working, all I could get was one X a year for myself, but my local Ford dealer always gave me a "better than X-plan" price when I shopped with him.

Employees get different discount plans, a little better than the X discount.

Other manufacturer have similar employee incentive plans. I bought one vehicle from Chrysler, when it was Daimler-Chrysler, using an X-equivalent PIN generated by my brother, retiree from a different Daimler subsidiary. But I've bought other Chrysler vehicles at a better price from the dealer, without the employee discount, which is not always the best deal you can get, because it is a fixed price.

Let me Google that for you.

LMGTFY

My son just bought a new F-150 through his FIL, retired Ford employee.