In recent months, consumer demand for certain FoMoCo models has exceeded the automaker's production capacity, prompting it to cancel orders and push them to the next model year. This has happened to the 2022 Ford Escape and Ford Transit Connect most recently, as well as the red-hot 2022 Ford Maverick. Now, courses familiar with the matter have told Ford Authority that some 2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid orders are facing cancellation, too.
As has historically been the case, these 2022 Ford Maverick Hybrid orders are facing cancellation over various supply chain issues, in this instance, those stemming from suppliers. This change affects both retail and dealer stock orders that previously had their scheduled build date pushed back to December 12th, 2022, though all dealer allocations will be returned for the 2023 model year, albeit over the course of several months. Ford is currently working on a solution to transfer canceled retail orders over to the 2023 model year, which includes price and incentive protection, and will share those details in the near future.
That last tidbit is particularly notable since 2023 Maverick prices have increased across the board - between $1,095 and $1,200, depending on trim - as Ford Authority reported last month. However, the turbocharged Ford 2.0L I-4 EcoBoost I-4 is now a no-charge option on all trims. Regardless, order banks for the 2023 Maverick were closed after just one week due to a high number of carryover orders and new orders.
In addition to these price increases, the 2023 Ford Maverick is getting a few other changes for the new model year, including the addition of the new Black Appearance Package, Tremor Off-Road Package, and Tremor Off-Road Appearance Package. All of these packages are currently supply constrained, however, along with a number of other options and packages. Meanwhile, 2023 Ford Maverick production was also pushed back several weeks recently and is currently scheduled to begin at the Hermosillo Assembly plant in Mexico on November 14th, 2022.
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Only for buyers in states where the 2026 Escape can be sold.
That's more than enough to move the hatchback.
It's the very last unfinished chassis to be completed.
Seriously. What was the point?
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Ford, you are an absolute joke of a company. You strung me along for over a YEAR. I will never buy a Ford product ever again. There's no excuses for making so many thousands and thousands of people think they were actually getting their truck. Do you have any idea how much trouble it's been keeping my old car on the road for so long? At this point, I consider myself owed compensation. I will not tolerate any white knight or whataboutism replies. The fact that this happened is unjustifiable.
“I will not tolerate…”. LoL. Sure. Seems legit.
does this mean they will only be building the ICE version from now on? could this mean those of us that ordered the ICO-Boost engine model might get moved up in the schedule, hope so , but it'll probably just be an opportunity for some other excuse why we can't have our trucks. those who waited for their hybrids this long must be fuming mad or glad to get a 23 instead of a 22 that's depreciated a model year before they even get it (new old stock has a new meaning)
I worked in management for Canadian Ford dealers for 46 years in dealership management and always drove Ford. I really wanted a new Maverick, which was to be my last new vehicle and now have been denied 2 years in a row...... bought something else 😡
The auto industry has not had these kinds of vehicle line shutdowns as we have seen the past two years now, since the time of WW2. At least back then, factory resources were used to build Airplanes and Tanks and Jeeps. These excuses today are simply intolerable for those wanting to buy their product. The Little 3 US auto makers best formulate a way to start bringing back production of these sub-assemblies IN-HOUSE, like they used to do.........or they face an uncertain future of bankruptcy and possibly buy out by the Chinese.
LoL. How many microchips were in a 46 Ford? PS ask Toyota why they had to revise production numbers downward. Hint: it was because if supply chain shortages. (If an apex auto OEM with massive sourcing leverage and keiretsu advantages isn’t immune to supply chain disruption, you are foolish to think Detroit can do better in the short term. As for the medium term, Ford has already been documented here as saying it is taking steps to prevent supply chain vulnerabilities wrt chips going forward.)
Having two family members in the auto repair business, I regularly hear about their difficulties/inability in obtaining parts for customer's vehicles. I never thought much of it until I had a water leak at my business a few days ago. After traveling to 6 different suppliers, I ended up at a heavy duty, commercial supplier. When I asked for the coupler that I needed, I was told: "You're at the right place, just the wrong time." Thinking I had arrived during someone's lunch, or worse, their vacation, I asked what that meant. I was told my part was on a 40 week back order. As I stood there, I was listening to a sales person being verbally berated by an installer demanding to know why his $16,000 gate valve was going to be 5 weeks late. He stated an entire housing project was being delayed because of that delayed part. I walked out slack-jawed realizing just how bad this problem is getting (and has been).
well i guess it's time to pay the piper now, we got so used to getting lower priced products from foreign markets (cheaper materials & labor) that now we're being held hostage to our own greed. we exported all of our manufacturing ability to foreign competitors and it's now biting us in the ass, those foreign markets gobbled up all the business they could knowing we'd come crawling to them eventually. thanks to our elected leadership that allowed this to happen and no doubt profited grossly from it (via lobbyists and kickbacks) we're in this position, man have we been had!!! snowball is picking up speed now, right into oblivion. china is giggling it's ass off, look at the "made in" stickers does 1% say USA??? probably not!!!
i guess it seemed like a good idea at the time to Nixon to start rolling that ball with China. Also wish we would bring all those industries back. Tired of sending work to other countries whose engineers have no real training and need their hand held every step of the way.
Apparently you have no idea how competent foreign engineers are.
You are absolutely right.
Ford this surly will make customers angry. You created a winner but forgot how to make them. Very disappointing.
This is what happens if you have no competition. When Toyota makes their version your orders will plummet and you will have missed owning a huge segment. Sad really
The Hyundai Santa Cruz is a reasonable competitor. We just bought a 2023 Santa Cruz after driving a Maverick and being completely underwhelmed with the interior. The bed is a little shorter, but it's still basically the same thing. And the interior and the ride/handling are so much nicer than the Maverick. The SC isn't everyone's cup of tea, but I love ours so far.
Thought about buying a Santa Cruz but it has the 6 ugliest/boring colors in the automotive industry. The blue looks like it escaped from an Easter egg hunt and my wife said the one color looked like diarrhea. Then there's black, white (NEVER), and two shades of gray. Not going to spend that much money on something so ugly!
Nonsense.
Competition won’t bring blood out if the supply chain turnip any faster.
Nothing would change if there were competition, Ford would still have to allocate chips across vehicle lines prioritized by marginal profit (or F-Series over Maverick) followed by a trickle flow of other vehicles to other markets and dealers to keep them alive until supply recovers.
will it recover, speaking about the chip makers, is it in their best interest for it to recover, sure they'll sell more but does it help their agenda (captive market), keeping us starving for their products and creating massive costs of our wanted products is right up their alley, so will it ever go away, i would hope so, BUT!!!
The largest Chip maker in the world Taiwan Semiconductor is building a new HUGE manufacturing plant in Phoenix AZ. Look it up! BUY some TSM stock. I think Intel may be building a USA plant too. All this should help.
Ordered my na erick hybrid Oct 18 2021 Just got notice it's coming WK Nov 7 after one yr wait it will be the 2022 model
This is my America and I'll wait for an American Ford long before I would buy a Toyota. Toyota also has supply issues too. I don't care how many foreign auto manufacturers are in this country. It's still better for our economy when you buy American.
Ford is stuck - these supply chain issues are no joke. Can't get baby formula in the stores these days, let alone semiconductors. It's a good part of why inflation is as bad as it is, and why my wife's 2022 Escape order just became a 2023 order as of yesterday. Customers are angry, but there's really nothing Ford (or any other OEM) can do about it.
This is it in a nutshell. These mega trends and problems have built up over the last generation and coalesced into what we see now.
Mine was on order since last October, Dealer made an appointment, and was at the dealership, on the 15th of September to put in an order for a 2023. They called me after the ordering had closed to tell me my vehicle did not get ordered. Now the 2022 is "balanced out", long story short, no truck even if you do what you're supposed to. It's not supply chain issues; it is gross incompetence from top to bottom. I have always driven Fords, now that is going to change.
Gross incompetence? That every OEM is affected to some degree by these problems?
Very disappointed that Ford has no transparency on Maverick orders. How you dare build more Broncos and make us wait for a Maverick pickup. Had to change equipment on my supposed 2023 to somewhat match my 2022 order from December 2021. Are you going to string me along another year? They said we would get an email but instead the dealer delivers their bad news. I also sell upfitted Ford vans and trucks for a living ,no help there. If you can’t build them in Mexico you should have switched a line already to the states. What are you waiting for Kia to steal your idea on this one. Build American get moving ! Jim Rudy
They're gonna build more Broncos because they make a lot more profit off of those than the Maverick. Ford's only got so many chips, etc to put into their cars. Of course they're going to prioritize their most profitable vehicles over their least profitable.
Agreed. This is the simple fact of what’s lost on folks like that.
you're absolutely right, just a tough pill to swallow, especially as long of a wait we've had, but some bronco orders are over 2 years waiting so it dismal at best, hoping that a competitive version comes to market from somebody that can actually deliver, they'll sell millions, remember the pony cars saved the big 3 cause they delivered them