Hi, I am from Belgium. We are going to buy our first F150! Our local USA car dealer has a ford lariat LOBO 3.5 V6 ecoboost, model 2018. But I can't find info about the LOBO. Just on a mexican site. There I can see the Ford F150 and the Ford LOBO. Are they two different cars or is LOBO just a model for the mexican market?
And most important, should we buy it or not
Thanks!

 

Welcome!

The Lobo is marketed in Mexico but it's entirely the same F-150. Enjoy!!

 

Yes, Lobo is the Mexican version of Ford F-150. I think the Canadian F-150 Lariat is slightly cheaper right now because the Mexican peso has strengthened against the U.S. dollar lately. Both use metric speedometers. Lobos aren't made in Mexico anymore. All the buttons are the same as my American F-150, none of them are in Spanish. We could easily get the Sync3 to display in English or French. I really don't think there's any difference.

 

Ok, so no reason for us not to buy it than

And indeed, he looks completely the same inside as the other trucks we saw.

We just want to be sure that if we buy one, it's a good one, for at least 10-15 years (I hope )
Apparently it's not that easy in Belgium.

Because last month we almost bought a f150 XLT with the title "salvage car, flood damage". Came from Miami CAS
The truck was over 1 year old and had 400km... and it was cheap. The salesman said it was a DEMO car in the US.
I didn't trust it at all, so I tracked the VIN.

(Hope my English is ok... )

 

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If the dealer claims to be exporting it from the U.S., that is not possible. Ford Lobo cannot be registered in the U.S., that is why you will not find the VIN history.

Even if it was in a flood, you will not find the VIN because it's not American. it cannot be sold as used car in the U.S. either.

Did they tell you the history of the car? How many miles?

 

It was the F150 XLT that was in a flood, not the LOBO.

The Lobo is the one that we might wanna buy. That's a new truck or at least it should be a new one.
We have an appointment on Thursday with the car dealer to testdrive it.
(Another dealer than the one that wanted to sell us the flood car of course! )

But thanks for the info! I didn't know that a lobo can't be registered in the U.S. Good to know!!
Also good to know that we can't track the VIN of this one. But if it is a new car, it's not necessary I think...

It will be our first american truck, our dream, so the more info we can get, the better

 

So are you looking at this for Belgium?

 

Yes, for Belgium

 

 

 

 

I don't know about Iceland but I can say with 99% certainty Ford F-150's are not sold new anywhere else in Europe. Don't know about Iceland, never been there. Not even in Denmark, I checked ford.dk, the closest country to Iceland, and it's not sold there.

Ford Lobo.. well, the VIN isn't registered.

How many miles on that Lobo? Do you know? Is it really new? I find it odd that it's coming from Mexico, not Canada. I would prefer a Canadian F-150 since VIN's are public information.

 

 

In Belgium and the Netherlands we can also buy new ford trucks. But not in an official ford garage. Here we have car dealers that specialize in American trucks. All imported cars of course.
In Belgium we have the ford ranger, but my husband doesn't want that , he said: F150 or nothing

I don't know yet where this LOBO came from. I will ask the dealer when we go see him on Thursday.
The lobo has less than 50miles. So I would think (hope) it is a new one.
But how can we know it is really new?
And if he says it came from Mexico, should we buy it or better not?
This car dealer has a good reputation I think, I asked around and googled him. So hopefully he is indeed honest.

A trip to the U.S. is not possible for the moment

That's why I'm on this forum, to ask for a lot of information and hopefully than buy a good truck
Thanks everyone