Two things: I had a 22 Raptor on order since 10/27/21. The video on price protection previously in this thread refers to Maverick over and over and I didn't hear anything about Raptor. My dealer said that Raptor is a specialty vehicle and that the price protection does not apply AND my '22 that was ordered was "balanced out" and had to be reordered as a '23 which I was told also ends any price protection. Thoughts or other information?
In the end, it's up to the dealer to give you price protection on the same model year. People will tell you otherwise, but if the dealer won't do it after you've given them all the "info", there is nothing to be done. Buy it or don't.
I went through the same thing. Sent emails to corporate, even got a few calls back. The nice lady from Detroit HQ that works in customer satisfaction researched it and told me the raptor is not protected.
Bottom line, Raptor is not officially price protected. Dealers may give in and say it is and follow through for some, that is great and I am proud for those fellas. But nobody is going to force the dealer to price protect a raptor.
Worst case, you're paying the same amount as everyone that walks into the dealer and buys one today. So not really the end of the world.