Mine's been sitting at the railyard within walking distance of my home for the last six days. Taking off on a road trip on March 2, so Ford has another week to get their act together.
Tear tag live as of this morning. I was toward the tail end of the line, so I suspect most 1/26 or earlier blends have gotten to at least this stage by now.
Hey, this Bronco is almost real now.
Ford does not want to disincentivize the suckers customers that it has already convinced to pay for a special edition vehicle.
This is similar to why they won't give you $2500 to switch from Wildtrak to a Base.
We do not know. My suspicion is that you will be allowed to order them spec'ed however you want. And if you do so at the right dealer (lots of allocation), you can even "jump the line" and get a MY23 with constrained items. But that's pure speculation on my part, based on three years of closely...
The two door MIC is not considered a constraint, at least not one severe enough for Ford to make it part of this offer. It's like the 2.7L in that regard. You may get scheduled earlier if you drop it, but that's the same as it's been for the last several years.
Ford's not going to stop building any of the options. The expensive options are high margin. They make money off them at 2021 prices. They'll probably allow new orders to be entered with any of the options too, and won't particularly care if that means a new order jumps ahead of a 2020 reservation.
The two door thing is perfectly clear. There was speculation and bad info over the weekend, but it's not a mystery anymore.
$2500 is given for dropping the MIC, Lux, and SAS options.
MIC is not an option on the two-door, it's standard. The two-door hardtop is unaffected in either way by the...
Also the early communications that heavily emphasized reservation timestamp were a huge mistake at best, blatantly deceptive at worst. Back in mid 2020 Ford was already well aware of both the reservation imbalance between different dealers and commodity shortages on the MIC tops at least.
You have to appreciate the irony of a shortage caused by Ford being unwilling to have the word "Wrangler" on a tire. Tragedy and comedy have been closely interwoven in the tale of the Bronco for the last 2.5 years.