Recent content by Oafy44

This is /was my #1 gripe with ford. Was one of the first to get a lightning. Took over 2 months to get my charger. Had to finally call up my dealership and they called their regional rep and surprise ! Got it 48 hours later. Ford sends the OEM winch for super duties on a pallet and ships it...

Agree. It’s either a truck/tahoe/suburban or a Tesla.

Rather have the ICE avalanche. Too much going on with that Chevy. The sierra EV looks much better I would just go cybertruck at this point if people are really afraid of legacy Autos discontinuing the EV truck platforms.

The new rates at 0% vs standard used apr - and the fact you have 0 miles with a full warranty vs one off lease will justify a new purchase

Great question! I think for me (hindsight is 20/20) 1) all reservations should have probably been $3k - that $3k would include someone from ford installing the charging station before your truck was delivered. If you already had a charging station then just the normal reservation $$ would...

Deals for existing lightnings aren’t as good as January /February/march of 2025, (and I’m not just looking online , I’ve gone in person to the dealership to see what a deal would look like (own a company with 15 trucks and would use another lightning for a Forman run around truck. - if you...

E transit vans can’t be used for companies with for then a few - they want to (talked to a few large companies ) - trust me the savings are real on paper once you build the ecosystem but here are a few things to consider To be able to install multiple charge stations for a company (remember...

I’m not saying and EREV won’t be a solid stop gap to start converting customers but if a lightning EV can’t be profitable for Ford , how would manufacturing an EREV be cheaper to build ?

Not to defend Ford , and I have posted a few posts on this thread about my disappointment ….but ….as single /purchaser/homeowner , small business - we forget that ford has a huge commercial business and a ford pro / fleet would just not be justifiable with the build out needed to support a fleet...

Same here It seems to me they just got so ahead of themselves in the beginning when they had “huge demand” they went out and built a huge factory for what turned out to be 30k trucks a year. - but I wonder if they would actually be profitable if a shift ran a line once a every few months- I...

Call me skeptical but thinking this is another Jim Farley marketing pitch that won’t happen-all it takes is a progressive president to be elected with a good chance of house /senate flip and ford will be scrambling to resurrect an amazing electric truck. Looks like now Ford caved to probably...

I wonder if / why Tesla wouldn’t be the “Apple” for legacy manufactures. It seems Elon is already over making cars and is into robotics / space/ robotics taxis. They already make more money on data and their charging infrastructure. Why doesn’t Tesla just develop the batteries / sell the...

I think it’s a little different but not horrible. My dealership did the rear bumper and said they had to do some engineering but it worked out just fine so my guess the front could be similar. Since the lighting was engineered to be very similar to an ice - my guess is they didn’t change...

Honestly I would just buy a ranch hand bumper - which fits and ice f-150 and modify the middle to fold down to access the frunk.

Farley changes his mind biweekly so if he said it a month ago he already changed his mind.