{"id":23242,"date":"2022-05-27T06:03:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23242"},"modified":"2022-05-27T06:03:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T10:03:45","slug":"first-f150-lightning-retail-customer-takes-delivery-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=23242","title":{"rendered":"First F-150 Lightning Retail Customer Takes Delivery In Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ford has started delivering F-150 Lightning to retail customers after it began shipping the electric pickups to US dealers in mid-May.<\/p>\n

While the automaker has not officially announced the start of customer deliveries yet, owners have begun sharing their F-150 Lightning delivery experiences on social media. Actually, there’s only one we know of so far.<\/p>\n

Nicholas, a member of the F-150 Lightning Forum<\/em> going by the nickname of oneguynick<\/em>, claims he is the very first retail customer to take delivery of Ford’s electric pickup. He says a Ford public relations representative confirmed to him that he was officially the first. The fact that he lives in Michigan likely has something to do with that as the F-150 Lightning is built at the Rouge Electric Vehicle Center in Dearborn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It probably helped too that he ordered the top-dog F-150 Lightning Platinum model, which starts at $90,874 and offers 300 miles of range and an 8,500-pound towing capacity.<\/p>\n

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He preordered his vehicle on May 20, 2021, and the order was confirmed on January 7, 2022. His F-150 Lightning<\/a> was built on April 18 (before the company actually announced the start of production) and he took delivery of it on May 26. In a post on the forum, he notes that the dealership applied no markup on the vehicle.<\/p>\n

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“I wanted to mention that my dealership carried the exact quoted price, and there is no dealer fee on top of what my build+taxes already included. Granted, it’s a tiny town and Richardson’s is known to take care of folks, but given the posts of others, I wanted to mention they were doing the right thing.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That’s good to hear seeing as how commonplace the practice of applying markups has become<\/a>, especially on widely anticipated EVs like the F-150 Lightning.<\/p>\n

In the forum post, Nicholas also notes that his truck was delivered with 62 miles on the odometer, which is a bit high. However, the Ford<\/a> dealer told him the factory used it around the track (probably to make sure that everything was running properly before delivery).<\/p>\n

The fact that Ford started delivering F-150 Lightnings to retail customers is great, but with 200,000 reservations for the electric truck, the automaker has a challenging task ahead. CEO Jim Farley recently announced that Ford would double the production capacity to 150,000 vehicles a year<\/a> to meet demand.<\/p>\n

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Ford has started delivering F-150 Lightning to retail customers after it began shipping the electric pickups to US dealers in mid-May. While the automaker has not officially announced the start of customer deliveries yet, owners have begun sharing their F-150 Lightning delivery experiences on social media. Actually, there’s only one we know of so far. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}