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I think what you meant, is keep the assembly line moving, thus preventing Ford from losing millions of dollars, and preventing a "log-jam" of supplier parts that are all synchronized around JIT manufacturing??

My soft top doesn't rattle on the highway, but my friend's Hard top makes creaking and popping sounds like a mutherf#$%er....

It so funny to read the comments like this one that are made BEFORE anything in known- The Rattler F-150 is a "de-contented vehicle" that essentially strips all the "module-heavy" features, and adds others from FX4 and Tremor that are useful for off-roading. ...So this approach (To keep Kansas...

Local powder coating shops can powder coat the silver ones for a 1/4 of that price.

Who's "they"? The dealership? Are you talking about the $100 reservation fee from July 13th, 2020? $100.00 "reservation" fee = Ford Motor Company (no dealership identified in this process) $XXXX.XX "DEPOSIT" fee = Dealership, varies across country. Sounds like a dealership problem

These trucks have been there for over a month

Sorry, but this is just not true! These comments make me laugh. It is true that unitized body-constructed vehicles are engineered such that the body IS the entire structure (monocoque, such as an airframe) in modern day BOF engineering, the two systems WORK TOGETHER to achieve optimal...

This comment made my day. Very well said, sir.

The Boron Steel roll frame serves MANY purposes on the BIW of this vehicle, other than framing the glass and housing the airbag curtains. Good Luck to the OP with the longevity of the vehicle.

...to SAVE money/costs, and spend it ELSEWHERE on the truck on things that matter more. Do you want to pay 70K for a Big Bend?

Doesn't really make sense, because all these vehicles are still, at this point, 100% owned by Ford Motor Company. Would think you knew this, since you "build successful companies" :rolleyes:

Make sure you have glass protection on your auto insurance

that roll tube is boron steel alloy, and it WILL rust unless fixed. I do not understand the need for these things. What’s the point of them?

Delivery 10-18-2021 From Reservation (July 14th 2020) 462 Days From Order Date (Jan 20th 2021) 301 Days

Something people need to understand is these are abnormally thin doors, and created to save weight for the removability. Sacrifices had to be made when engineering them because of limited cross-vehicle package space to work with, so the system is not as robust as other vehicles. Could have...

This is a true statement. Started at Jaguar, and Ford lifted the tech when they owned them, and applied it to S197 Mustang Convertible. as you mentioned, other automakers have been doing it as well for quite some time.

NONE of them were explorer. 100% Ranger derivative- Explorer wasn’t even created yet, which it was ultimately derived from the Ranger as well.

There’s no intellectual property trademark on the name “Sport”. No reason not to use it as part of a name for a totally different vehicle. Back in the 80’s and early 90’s, Ford made a small SUV off the RANGER platform and called it the “Bronco II”. Nobody lost their s$&@ over that back then, so...

This is the most accurate statement right here. The last thing ANY automaker wants to do is stop the final assembly lines form running. It's basically the "last resort". Trust me when I say this- they are losing TONS of money when final assembly lines stop running.

In interior trim engineering, Tolerance stack-ups are designed around other tolerance stack-ups, which mostly consist of build variations of the entire systems of parts. In roof system (parts above beltline), the "slip-joints" created where the plastic trim parts meet are larger than the...