09' Assembly Line
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, there is nothing different about this truck except the trans and some new body lines...I don't care if there are over 2000 new parts! (sarcasm off)Yeah, the 09 is leaps and bounds ahead of the curent model.
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I would wait for the 09 rather than but an 08 with the incentives being offered. I built an 08 F150 Lariat on the Ford website and it came out to about $42k not fully loaded and and over $46k for a loaded 4X4. If you go to the ford site and look under "In the news" the first article "New 2009 Ford F150;Most Pickup For The Money" The price range for the Lariat is $33,160 - $39,265 I assume the $39k is a loaded 4X4. The base price is up but you get a lot more options. I probably will not have to add much at all to the truck to get it the way I want it. Looks like Ford took a great truck and somehow made it even better. Just my 2cents though.
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I can not wait to get mine, I ordered it in June. I have an order number and partial VIN - now all I need is the truck. I am waiting, very impatiently, but waiting.
I bought the 04 when it came out and now have the 06 and I have been really really pleased, they just seem to get better. I have also owned in the past the 2000 and the 2002.
I have heard some great things about the 09 and can not wait to see it for myself.
Are there 1 or 2 plants building the 09? I have heard there was only 1 plant building. Which plants are they? I am just curious. I believe my other trucks came from Norfolk (?) but not sure can not remember.
Deb
I bought the 04 when it came out and now have the 06 and I have been really really pleased, they just seem to get better. I have also owned in the past the 2000 and the 2002.
I have heard some great things about the 09 and can not wait to see it for myself.
Are there 1 or 2 plants building the 09? I have heard there was only 1 plant building. Which plants are they? I am just curious. I believe my other trucks came from Norfolk (?) but not sure can not remember.
Deb
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I have had a 2009 STX regular cab, 6.5 styleside bed truck on order since mid-August. Does anybody have an ideas as to where this truck figures to be built? Any guess as to about when I could expect it to show up at the dealer?
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Same as the Atlanta Taurus/Sable plant...
It didn't make much sense to me either as to why the Norfolk plant closed. FMC raved about Norfolk'sbuild quality, yada, yada, yada. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that all Ford plants are building fantastic trucks. I just feel sorry for all the displaced workers in any high paying manufacturing job that abruptly comes to an end.
Tim
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So they closed it....
(couldn't they retool it for one of their new small car lines or something?)
And I'm in the Detroit area; my wife's employer is moving to Wixom, MI, across the freeway from the giant, closed Ford Wixom plant.
George
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I ordered my 09 on June 3 and others ordered theirs before that. We are just sitting and waiting, impatiently, but waiting......
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They still not sent you a date on expected deliverey? A lot of people have been given date of 20th oct some even have the date's for end of this month. If any of them true or not i have no idea but my delear said def oct 20th.
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I have not been told anything. I have had an order number and partial VIN since June 20 - 21st maybe, which only means that it is in the 'system'.
From some of the post from people that work at the plants, they say that they do not know where people are coming up with the October 20th date - it appears that their salesman are giving them the dates ?????? My salesman says that they are not getting any information from Ford.
My 06 is a Lease and it ran out June 29, so I keep extending it month to month, which I am only able to do because I have ordered the 09 and I have been a long time leaser (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 - all F150's)
From some of the post from people that work at the plants, they say that they do not know where people are coming up with the October 20th date - it appears that their salesman are giving them the dates ?????? My salesman says that they are not getting any information from Ford.
My 06 is a Lease and it ran out June 29, so I keep extending it month to month, which I am only able to do because I have ordered the 09 and I have been a long time leaser (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006 - all F150's)
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It didn't make much sense to me either as to why the Norfolk plant closed. FMC raved about Norfolk'sbuild quality, yada, yada, yada. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that all Ford plants are building fantastic trucks. I just feel sorry for all the displaced workers in any high paying manufacturing job that abruptly comes to an end.
Tim
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