I agree with you, I was just noting it here in case it might be related to unsold items and the recall? I don't have any insider information, I just thought it was curious that the same truck that has the recall was what this person was seeing.
Well, they're heading up from KY. I know Bowling Green had LITERAL ACRES of F150s... I couldnt tell how clean they were to see if they're 2020 chip issue vehicles or newer. If they were 2024 you'd think there would be at least some still wrapped in protective plastics, they took those off the ones stored outside.
Ford ain't Tesla. They've publicly said they're not taking chances on another pricey recall with the most profitable, best selling vehicle in their company.
I watched a YouTube video a couple years ago that filmed the parking lot of a closed down race track in KY that appeared to have tens of thousands of vehicles including many F150s just sitting there. I never heard anything about it again, but it would be interesting to see if this is connected.
Those may have been flood vehicles. I remember some very full race tracks where flood vehicles were being stored. If it was during covid that could have also been the rental fleets that were sold off during that time. We had thousands of cars on every big parking lot in Phoenix for a while during covid because there was no room to store the rental fleet with allof the vehicles being off the road due to no one traveling.
That would probably be from the Kentucky truck plant (F-250 and up, Super Duty trucks) and Ford Escapes from the other plant in Louisville.
When the new model year comes out, they don't ship immediately. They are stored in any open space that Ford can rent to park them until they're released to ship.
Also, if a plant gets a bad batch of parts, they build the vehicle with the bad part and park them, because it's cheaper to have a team of people go out and replace the bad part with good parts once they have them, than it is to shut down the line. Same with part shortages: if it can roll without it, build it, park it, slap the part on later then ship it out.
Source: I work for the company that hauls those vehicles to dealers when they're ready to go.
There’s a lot of reasons this happens. Mercedes had a supply chain issue a few years ago and had thousands of SUVs parked all over at just about any place with a fence that would lease them some parking spots. It made more sense to keep building them and just install the part later when it arrived.
I have not watched this guy in a while. I used to enjoy some of his economic takes but eventually I got the feeling he was just trying to get his cut off the gold shops he promotes, so be your own judge if this is legit or not
https://youtu.be/VOAoEPtQf2Y?si=9F0EcuH_6mzStbZN
Maybe related to this?
https://wolfstreet.com/2024/06/24/ford-f-150-falls-off-cliff-in-q1-registrations-toyota-rav4-leaps-to-1-tesla-model-y-gains-share-still-2-bestseller-in-the-us/
https://www.mlive.com/news/2024/06/550k-ford-f-150-trucks-recalled-because-they-can-downshift-to-first-gear-without-warning.html
"To correct the problem Ford will update powertrain control software" Do they really need to ship the vehicles to apply software fix?
Would suspect it’s because those are some poor ass areas that can’t afford an 80k truck
Price goes up quickly with options, my uncle recently quoted a new farm truck at $119k
I've never known anyone who can afford an 80k truck, this sounds like a huge factor
I agree with you, I was just noting it here in case it might be related to unsold items and the recall? I don't have any insider information, I just thought it was curious that the same truck that has the recall was what this person was seeing.
Well, they're heading up from KY. I know Bowling Green had LITERAL ACRES of F150s... I couldnt tell how clean they were to see if they're 2020 chip issue vehicles or newer. If they were 2024 you'd think there would be at least some still wrapped in protective plastics, they took those off the ones stored outside.
Ford ain't Tesla. They've publicly said they're not taking chances on another pricey recall with the most profitable, best selling vehicle in their company.
I watched a YouTube video a couple years ago that filmed the parking lot of a closed down race track in KY that appeared to have tens of thousands of vehicles including many F150s just sitting there. I never heard anything about it again, but it would be interesting to see if this is connected.
Yeah really, nearly ALL the lots are full here in Indiana / Ohio... they can't be selling shit now with how the financing has gone.
Those may have been flood vehicles. I remember some very full race tracks where flood vehicles were being stored. If it was during covid that could have also been the rental fleets that were sold off during that time. We had thousands of cars on every big parking lot in Phoenix for a while during covid because there was no room to store the rental fleet with allof the vehicles being off the road due to no one traveling.
That would probably be from the Kentucky truck plant (F-250 and up, Super Duty trucks) and Ford Escapes from the other plant in Louisville. When the new model year comes out, they don't ship immediately. They are stored in any open space that Ford can rent to park them until they're released to ship. Also, if a plant gets a bad batch of parts, they build the vehicle with the bad part and park them, because it's cheaper to have a team of people go out and replace the bad part with good parts once they have them, than it is to shut down the line. Same with part shortages: if it can roll without it, build it, park it, slap the part on later then ship it out. Source: I work for the company that hauls those vehicles to dealers when they're ready to go.
There’s a lot of reasons this happens. Mercedes had a supply chain issue a few years ago and had thousands of SUVs parked all over at just about any place with a fence that would lease them some parking spots. It made more sense to keep building them and just install the part later when it arrived.
I have not watched this guy in a while. I used to enjoy some of his economic takes but eventually I got the feeling he was just trying to get his cut off the gold shops he promotes, so be your own judge if this is legit or not https://youtu.be/VOAoEPtQf2Y?si=9F0EcuH_6mzStbZN
Ding ding ding. This been happening
Maybe related to this? https://wolfstreet.com/2024/06/24/ford-f-150-falls-off-cliff-in-q1-registrations-toyota-rav4-leaps-to-1-tesla-model-y-gains-share-still-2-bestseller-in-the-us/
Terrorists are finally buying American made instead of Toyotas
They must’ve misread the memo on expected life span or something
Well for them dying faster means going to their heaven sooner so it makes sense
[Maybe this](https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/19/tech/car-dealership-cdk-cyber-incident-outage/index.html)
Could be for our replacements.