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Im struggling to find a new 2025 with Sasquatch package and soft top. Dealers don’t even seem interested in trying to find one for me. Is this common?
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Soft tops are much less popular than hard top, so dealers generally won't order many of them to put on their lots. They try to stock the most popular configurations because those are the easiest to sell.
There are definitely a few out there if you look—my dealer had two of them last week. But you can always special order one exactly how you want, and it'll probably arrive in 3-6 months or so. Special ordering is referred to as a "retail order" in Ford-speak, and if you tell your dealer you'd like to submit a retail order they should know what you're talking about.
Personally, I always retail order vehicles. Have never bought a vehicle that wasn't a retail order, largely because I buy manual transmission, which is another option that isn't all that popular.
There are definitely a few out there if you look—my dealer had two of them last week. But you can always special order one exactly how you want, and it'll probably arrive in 3-6 months or so. Special ordering is referred to as a "retail order" in Ford-speak, and if you tell your dealer you'd like to submit a retail order they should know what you're talking about.
Personally, I always retail order vehicles. Have never bought a vehicle that wasn't a retail order, largely because I buy manual transmission, which is another option that isn't all that popular.
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Makes complete sense that hardtop is more popular. I’m just shocked to see nothing for presumably a 3 state radius.
I’ll have to contemplate storing a hardtop and using an aftermarket soft top vs doing the retail order.
Any idea when retail orders open for the next model year?
Buy with the hard top and you can sell the top fast, while buying a new soft top take-off which are easy to get and cheap.
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Order banks are open right now for 2025.
2026 dates haven't been announced yet, but likely to be early Q4 2025. Maybe late Q3, but given we're in Q3 now, we haven't heard anything, and the 2025 order banks are still open... my guess is Q4.
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I have a brand new one never used.
Although the Ford website is showing zero 2025 SAS soft-tops within 500 miles of Norman, OK, it is listing over 80 Bronco's matching your spec for 2024's (which seems odd --- but you should be able to get a great deal on one of those!).
https://www.ford.com/inventory/bron...ne=EN-N3;EN-WQ&specialPackage=AACT5&year=2024
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I’ve chased a few of those down and they all seem to have a stop sale for a rear suspension recall that no one knows when will be completed.
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