Ford built 26,000 F150 in January and I’m assuming more in Feb plus whatever they had built in December. All those vehicles are just sitting there at Dearborn.
I don’t know how fast Ford can move vehicles, hopefully pretty fast but there is still a back log of vehicles. Also the closest dealer to Dearborn (Pat Milliken Ford) where the 2024 F150s were stored and some guy was able to review it, has not advertise or received any 2024. That leads me to conclude that the 2024 F150 are not released or shipped to anyone yet.
So if a build date of early January is slated for an end of March delivery then an end of Feb build date would be expected to show up in late May/June.
Alternatively, the delay could be QC or parts and the trucks that were built and sitting would all need to be retrofit or fixed before leaving the plant, but the trucks being built now are all good to go and sent off to the dealers right after being done building which would fit a 6 week time frame. Also, once the vehicles start shipping it could start streamlining everything kind of like when the light turns red to green in heavy traffic.
Bottom line is nobody that knows what’s truly going on will go on record saying so. We’re all here just waiting and making theories.
