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I might be done with Ford pickup trucks (another massive price increase) ☹️

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I wanted to order a 2024 F-150 RCSB truck this year but paying $21,000 per year for private school tuition for my son and $13,000 per year for my daughter has made me put that on hold for another year at least. Everything is just insanely high priced now and public schools in Massachusetts are terrible. I just priced the same basic RCSB truck and compared 2024 to 2025 and Ford is raising the price another $3,250 for 2025. How can Ford justify raising prices another $3,250 again when Ford just raised prices from 2023 to 2024 nearly the same amount. This is insane! Over $6,000 price increase in just two years on the same base model truck with steel wheels or nearly 50k for a 4x4 with 103A. F-that! When I am ready to buy I will either get a nice riding and comparatively luxurious Honda Ridgeline or just get something else that is nice and not an over priced pickup truck.

My rant is temporarily over for now. It felt good to get that out. The economy just sucks now and prices of goods are out of control. 🤬
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Prices are insane. I had to buy used.

When custom orders are taking 6-9 months, I suppose Ford is in a position to be able to charge more and they're milking it for all its worth.
 

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Hope everyone's raises have kept up with inflation over the past several years. Sorta normalizes the high prices. But yeah its wild. Prices will not come down per se, but the rate of increase has largely stabilized on most things. 25 vs 24 for my build it was around 2k increase, which mathematically is about 1% over the current inflation rate.

I was fortunate to order my 24 RCSB 4x4 103a in April and finally have a build date in November. I imagine the "incentives" will be decent once I take delivery towards the end of the year.
 

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Also as a father, I fully intend to make my boys have some of their own skin in the game when it comes to tuition. I also have been planting some seeds towards the military for the GI Bill and other benefits it would grant them for their service.
 

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There is a difference in keeping up inflation with and causing it …

we all have vote with our wallets and just not buy …
 

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its never good to pay for more than you something is worth to you.. the schools - public anyway are no longer math/science/english/history.. which is what i had. its not good.
 

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There is a difference in keeping up inflation with and causing it …

we all have vote with our wallets and just not buy …
To be fair I'm sure cost of everything used in building the truck has gone up in turn. Not to mention the unions and employees wages as I eluded to initially.
 

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Just my .02 but consumers tend to have a significant cause with people continously financing vehicles for 6-7 yrs. Obviously there are many other factors, but the manufacturers see that they continue to sell and raise prices because they know the average American has to have the newest truck and most will finance them until to the max they can afford. Our debt is someone else's success. I personally won't buy a vehicle unless I can pay cash for it. I save up and continue to save until the time comes (I get it, everyones financial situation is different but people finance vehicles they truly cain't afford). People have $1,000 vehicle payments which is nuts in my eyes. The average vehicle payment is $700 in today's market.

Look at the boat industry they're now selling 23' center console boats for 150k and it's a base boat, no electronics, smaller engine, etc. I was at a boat show recently and they were offering 30yr finance plans on a 150k boat to make it "affordable" to the consumer. The average person doesn't maintain a boat correctly to last 30yrs anyways.

The employees wanting more money...they'll get it. Ford will increase the price to automate more jobs and those people will be out of jobs eventually. Look at fast food joints the employees wanted $20 to flip burgers...now that industry is automating a lot of the job and eventually they won't have to pay $20 per hr.

The school system has dumbed this country down to be financially illiterate and it shows in certain situations.
 

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I wouldn't call a 4% price increase massive. All manufactures do it, Ford is actually on the lower end of the increase compared to others.
 

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I've said this before and I'll say it again. The battle for truck sales is not going to be won on the high end, but at the entry level.

A STX should not be $60K+ CAD. My coworker is looking for a base truck - something simple he can run for a decade plus. Outside of the Ram 1500 Classic, he's found nothing even close to that.

If the F150 becomes solely a luxury vehicle, where does the working man go for a truck?
 

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Before you 100% give up call Chip at Granger in Iowa to see what your real best price is.. You might pleasantly surprised. I was.
x2 !!!!!! Just e-mailing Chip my build (2024) dropped the price from $44,580 to $41,007---$3500 !!!
 

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For a 2 wheel drive 101-A platform running boards privacy glass it was less than $36.000.00 plus TTT ... Adding 4 wheel drive and the 103-A puts you are nowhere close to 50K. I don't think it's a $3,500.00 bump either for a 2025. Your local dealer is blowing smoke up your skirt.
 

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Pull the 2025 order price list from one of the Price List posts. Look up the invoice price for what you want to configure. Take that total and subtract 4% from that total number. That will give you the 4% below invoice price that Granger will offer you for your 2025 order.

Wait to place your order when Ford offers some incentive and you will lock in that incentive however long it takes for the truck to come in. The $1000 down payment will be long gone and when the truck comes in that reduces that low price that much more. You already paid it, the hurt is over for that money. Good luck.
 

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Pull the 2025 order price list from one of the Price List posts. Look up the invoice price for what you want to configure. Take that total and subtract 4% from that total number. That will give you the 4% below invoice price that Granger will offer you for your 2025 order.

Wait to place your order when Ford offers some incentive and you will lock in that incentive however long it takes for the truck to come in. The $1000 down payment will be long gone and when the truck comes in that reduces that low price that much more. You already paid it, the hurt is over for that money. Good luck.
It will actually be lower than the "as built" price you see online. For my 24 RCSB 4x4, the MSRP was $41,585, while invoice was $39,714 and the 103A pkg MSRP was $1000, invoice price was $910. It's easiest to just send your build to Chip and you'll know exactly what it is and it won't cost you anything, except a few minutes of your time.
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