Here we go again, chip shortages

I ordered a new truck Last month and its looking like a June Build.

4x4ord wrote:

mdcamping wrote:

schlep1967 wrote:
Help me out here. If I want to get a new truck in a year or two it looks like I should order it now. So if I order now can I order a new 2023 or 2024? Or am I forced to order a 2022 that will be two years old as far as book value goes when it gets delivered?

ordered my truck early of sept 21. they converted the order over to a 22 model year this past Nov. pricing stayed the same. I received noticed that the truck was built last week, I may be receiving more rebates but to be determined

Mike

Did you get your truck?

My last email from Ford said around mid March

Mike

mdcamping wrote:

schlep1967 wrote:
Help me out here. If I want to get a new truck in a year or two it looks like I should order it now. So if I order now can I order a new 2023 or 2024? Or am I forced to order a 2022 that will be two years old as far as book value goes when it gets delivered?

ordered my truck early of sept 21. they converted the order over to a 22 model year this past Nov. pricing stayed the same. I received noticed that the truck was built last week, I may be receiving more rebates but to be determined

Mike

Did you get your truck?

Grit dog wrote:


That's a plus in most scenarios. But would be a detriment if someone was intent on a particular model year for a particular reason. IE getting the "last" of a good model before some questionable changes...

Yep, the 2022 F150 deleted likable feature of the 2021 F150.

mdcamping wrote:

schlep1967 wrote:
Help me out here. If I want to get a new truck in a year or two it looks like I should order it now. So if I order now can I order a new 2023 or 2024? Or am I forced to order a 2022 that will be two years old as far as book value goes when it gets delivered?

ordered my truck early of sept 21. they converted the order over to a 22 model year this past Nov. pricing stayed the same. I received noticed that the truck was built last week, I may be receiving more rebates but to be determined

Mike

That's a plus in most scenarios. But would be a detriment if someone was intent on a particular model year for a particular reason. IE getting the "last" of a good model before some questionable changes...

NamMedevac 70 wrote:
Well MeAgain everyone but you know that Tesla and Elon Musk are very different in a positive way from rest of corporate America and including the other auto manufacturers.

Seems that you did not read what I posted about Tesla!

schlep1967 wrote:
Help me out here. If I want to get a new truck in a year or two it looks like I should order it now. So if I order now can I order a new 2023 or 2024? Or am I forced to order a 2022 that will be two years old as far as book value goes when it gets delivered?

ordered my truck early of sept 21. they converted the order over to a 22 model year this past Nov. pricing stayed the same. I received noticed that the truck was built last week, I may be receiving more rebates but to be determined

Mike

Help me out here. If I want to get a new truck in a year or two it looks like I should order it now. So if I order now can I order a new 2023 or 2024? Or am I forced to order a 2022 that will be two years old as far as book value goes when it gets delivered?

NamMedevac 70 wrote:

gbopp wrote:
Maybe they're making more money by building/selling fewer vehicles at higher prices? :)

Very well said. Phony excuses given for the so-called supply chain crisis and chip shortage. We know who

Unless all the major manufacturers are in collusion, not likely. Someone would jump at the chance to eat up market share increasing profits thru volume over margin.

And if they want to go into collusion, much simpler to quietly eliminate/reduce discounts and rebates.

PS: Tesla is making a fraction of the vehicles the big boys are making and they are playing in the high end of the market, so paying an extra couple hundred to source chips from a limited market is easily justifiable.

Kinda thought manufacturers would have been re-sourcing by now.

https://globalnsu.com/index.php/ford-suspending-three-major-assembly-lines-including-the-mustang-mach-e-over-chip-shortage/