2020 GT500's Scheduled For Production - Part 1

[Snoopy49]

Earl, Have any TO cars been put into production yet?

I haven't seen any non Ford factory ordered cars in TO.
The only colors I have seen are:
In the order of quantity
Rapid Red
FP Blue
Shadow Black
Oxford White

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[geoking]

Congratulations George!

IME, you will see your Window Sticker tomorrow.

Yes, It is showing via the order status tool this morning.
I used Walgreens photo service to order a poster board copy for wall art in the shop.
(My wife is not going to like it.)
Have a nice Saturday.
George

 

[The Chairman]

Chairman: Any chance you can get the procedures to pull up a VVR from the sales guy? Or any other store owners/managers, etc.? It would be nice if we could all give our salespeople that info which would help both parties.

I asked my guy and all he said was: “You have to have a log in with a ford store.”
I requested more specific instructions, nothing yet.
The top of the web page simply says “Ford Order Fulfillment Visibility” with a button for Home and another for “Vehicle Visibility”. My guess is at that point you enter a VIN (or possibly select from a menu of ordered vehicles).
This is what mine looks like.

 

[kilobravo]

Thanks, Don and I knew it would have to be from a confuser on the Ford wide area network, I just thought there might be a simple command for my salesman to try at work.

But, no big deal, now and again, I'm REALLY not trying to rub it in. <smile> But wouldn't it be nice if Ford would make that site available to the public?

 

[The Chairman]

OMG, I forgot about that link! IT'S THERE!

Double thanks, amigo...really.

Here's mine.

I see a “Blend Date“ of 21 Oct at the top of your sticker. That’s the date when all the parts are to be at FRAP to start assembly. Normally, the car is completed within a day or so of that date.
Then its off to another building for stripes, etc. (as applicable). Estimate ~2 weeks (+ or -) for shipping after that.
Let’s see if your actual dates follow this pattern.

 

[kilobravo]

You are clearly more observant than I, Don as I didn't notice the blend date. So, being "in production" doesn't necessarily mean something is being "produced" until all the parts show up. A rough date calc tells me it should show up here around the first part of the second week of November if your estimates for each phase are accurate. I too will be curious how well the projected dates stack up against the real dates.

 

[PP0001]

OMG, I forgot about that link! IT'S THERE!

Double thanks, amigo...really.

Here's mine.

This is going to be a very cool looking car and with your car scheduled to start production a week from this Monday that will be an exciting time to say the least.

With all of the options that you have chosen (Black roof is the only option I see missing) I suggest that it may be a while before your car gets scheduled for transportation out of FR based on the fact the your car will need to ship to Penske for the OTT Painted Stripe option and then return to the FRAP for final assembly after which time the Mod Shop will then get their turn with respect to the installation of the rear seat delete, CF wheel and CF wing.

Having said all that whatever the wait time is for this cool car will definitely be worth it and lets hope that whatever railway is chosen to ship your car (Texas?) that they have ample rail cars in place in order to move them all out in a timely fashion.

Looking forward to seeing some pictures in the near future!!

 

[Snoopy49]

I see a “Blend Date“ of 21 Oct at the top of your sticker. That’s the date when all the parts are to be at FRAP to start assembly. Normally, the car is completed within a day or so of that date.
Then its off to another building for stripes, etc. (as applicable). Estimate ~2 weeks (+ or -) for shipping after that.
Let’s see if your actual dates follow this pattern.

The Blend date on my 2013 GT500 was the same day that it was Released for shipment. 01/14/2013
Blend date: 120130114 (2013/01/14)
From VVR: Produced and Released (Awaiting Shipment) Jan-14-2013
Date of MFG on door decal is 01/13 (Jan 2013)

 

[Snoopy49]

I just found some information on a 2019 Mustang GT that confirms the information on my 2013 GT500

Blend date: 120190814 (2109/08/14)
VVR: Produced and Released from plant Aug-14-2019



With all problems at Flat Rock, I don't know if this will hold true for the 2020 GT500.
KB's car will probably be produced on the Blend date, but may not be released for shipment until a later date.
That's the way it seems to be working out for the 2020 GT500 that have already been produced, with the exception of some of the Factory ordered car.

 

[Snoopy49]

Approximate total of all the VINs for all the states. These do not include the 131 Factory VINs.

 

[The Chairman]

Thanks, Don and I knew it would have to be from a confuser on the Ford wide area network, I just thought there might be a simple command for my salesman to try at work.

But, no big deal, now and again, I'm REALLY not trying to rub it in. <smile> But wouldn't it be nice if Ford would make that site available to the public?

Upon further requests, my sales guy provided these instructions: “Log into fmc dealer, get the VIN number of the unit; and search in vehicle visibility.”
Sounds so simple....

 

[kilobravo]

Again, thanks, Don, I will pass that info to my guy.

And...

Earl: You are clearly as OCD as I am! <smile> Thanks for the breakdown by state, it is quite interesting. Especially the large number in my State. Heck, there are more in Texas than in the entire country of Mexico. <chuckling> We also have more than the The Union of Californiet Socialist Republic. :-)

Right off the bat, I'm curious about the "DEAD" car. It seems you have a worksheet for this info, any chance of sharing? I'd like to see two sorts...one by quantity and, the breakdown of 4-seaters vs. 2-seaters if you already have that data in the worksheet.

Please keep up the excellent work, Earl, we truly appreciate the effort.

 

[toothdkdr]

When in the spring will they start building CFTP cars again?

Approximate total of all the VINs for all the states. These do not include the 131 Factory VINs.

Are all these going to be produced before the new year? If these numbers are correct that leaves approximately 3800 more to be produced in 2020, mine being one of those. When do you think ford will open order banks again?

 

[V00D00]

Does that mean that 0837 may possibly get moved back to an Oct build date....from 12/23 ?

Noy unless its 1 of those V colors. I think we are fairly certain batches are going by colors now.

I don't know, but 12 out of the 17 I downloaded today were CFTP car.

3 Shadow Black
1 Oxford White
8 FP Blue
5 Rapid Red

I wonder if the cool colors are all in the 2nd batch, iconic, grabber, TO..

Congrats on all you guys getting confirmation of your cars being built. Sat around Pocono Raceway pouting like an abused puppy yesterday watching all my friends have an amazing time at an event i planned specifically for me lol.. All good.. always next year, whats another 6 months waiting, right

 

[1stMustang-GT500]

Taking the 1300 cars set to be produced in 2019 over the roughly 10 week production window, it seems like 130 cars a week. Meaning to get the remaining 3800 built in 2020 the last one should be leaving FRAP in May and we should ALL have our 2020 GT500s to enjoy next summer.

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