I know but their “offer giver” is still up.
I sold them TWO vehicles during the Used Car Pricing Extravaganza days. The issue with them was the paperwork got bogged down navigating all the various registration and title morasses. Every state is different, and I think they did NOT expect how difficult it would be getting all that stuff done in a timely way. There are horror stories out there of buyers having to wait MONTHS before they could legally drive cars they purchased from Carvana. I was strictly a seller, though. My experience was great.
We did a deal with them as well. Traded one car and bought another all in the same deal. Yes it took a few months to get our regular metal tags from them. They had to send out new temporary tags 2 different times but we were able to keep driving during this 3 month long span.
I wasn't talking about rangers...I was talking about general inventory. Not one new ranger on the lot where I work. I went to pick up a part from another ford dealer 15 miles away today an they had a handful, 4 or 5. Our dealership has about 40 F150's. That's up from 10 or 15 six months ago. They have a ton of escapes and eco sports vs single digits months ago. A handful of explorers and mustangs. There's so many F150's there's signs in the windshield advertising 3.9% financing. I'm wondering if they shifted resources (chips) from the ranger to the F150 since the volume available has shot up. Gotta make the bread and butter product.
The F series trucks are only down a few hundred through the end of July. So almost as good as a very poor 2021 production run.
I heard a news report on the radio that new car inventory was up slightly. For a long time on hand inventory was 25 days supply or so. Now it's 39 days supply. They said don't expect major improvements until fall 2023.
So my buddy who is a life long Chevy/GMC guy just test drove a 2017 F350 SD. I asked what he thought. He said he was very impressed. So maybe a new Ford family member?
