Folks will also have limited options in 2021. Stealership ordered vehicles have all the great money making options - graphics, moon roof, top package, sometimes the skimp on carbon etc. but they go big for big profits. My saleswoman put a downpayment on a house after selling my Raptor to me in ’17.
I disagree. If you walked into a stealership and found one with no moon roof, but everything else the truck would sell itself. It would with probably 85% of the consumers. VERY, VERY few Raptor buyers think the moon roof is a “must have”. Conversely, many here didn’t care one way or the other. And, despite what some of us think or have the impression, it isn’t going to fall out under hard off roading. Yeah, it’s going to make more noise and the track system is a bit on the fragile side but if we ( me included ) maintain it, then breakage becomes far less likely.
This is exactly how I ended up with a moonroof equipped truck. My previous car was getting expensive to maintain and I didn’t want to keep dumping money into it as it continued it’s downward spiral of depreciation. That put me in the Raptor market about 2 years sooner than I expected and in the hot, “ADM or die” market. I did manage to score MSRP in late December of ’16, picked up in Mid January. That truck with moonroof, graphics was cheaper than a closer truck with neither because the stealership closer was greedy.
Resale is tricky, if there are enough reliability concerns, you can either get less for or nothing for an option like this. I don’t think I’ve seen that yet with the Rap, but there’s a lot of F150 users with moonroof complaints, breakages, etc. Youtube is littered with videos about it. But, in context of how many trucks Ford sells it’s a small number.
If you’re in the Raptor market in ’21, you’re likely either
1) paying ADM over MSRP
or
2) getting a moon roof truck.
Just like 2017.
stealerships are shady. I had one lined up to order one like I wanted at MSRP but when I got there the song changed to $10k over.
too bad, so sad because I bought for MSRP somewhere else.