Madlock
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Through next Friday, 1,886 (1,887 if the Convertible is taken into account) of the 1,964 Limited Edition cars will have been built. Next week's production rate will be 35 units per day through Thursday before dropping off to the mid-twenties on Friday. One reasonably could expect ALL LE builds to be complete during the week ending 1/31/15.
Attached is a summary of the geographic distribution of the 1,886 to give an idea of where they're going. But just a few quick footnotes pertaining to the totals first:
The overwhelming majority of cars are simply ordered by and delivered through the allocated dealer. However, some situations can make attributing a particular car to one area or another rather subjective. For example, if a customer buys from a Chicago dealer but has a car shipped for delivery to a dealer near his vacation home in Florida, the car generally is attributed as a "Florida Unit".
Another phenomenon involves cars for export beyond the 50 states, Mexico or Canada. Generally, these cars will be exported through one of three port locations in Baltimore, Jacksonville, or Southern California and most summaries will attribute them as MD, FL or CA units. When known, this summary attributes the car to its actual destination dealer location, for example, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
A third exception case involves Military/Diplomatic purchases which generally are coordinated by the Military Exchange program in Fribourg, Switzerland. Some cars are exported abroad to active duty service personnel and diplomats in their respective countries of duty. These cars are designated Switzerland. However, such orders are often placed and shipped to the service member's (or diplomat's) hometown dealer for pickup upon return from abroad. These cars have been attributed to their respective states which include, among others, ND and NY.
The final case is handled by Ford's own export department which handles special one-offs. By default, these cars are attributed to Michigan. However, as in the case of one car which was exported to Algeria and another to Canada, such cars are attributed to their actual destination areas if known.
In most cases, these won't impact an area's total more than one or two units. But it will account for any discrepancies between this and other summaries that simply attribute each car to its "accounting" destination rather than its actual destination.
One other piece of data I chose to include for grins was the average Serial number of the cars that went to each state. One can see how highly favored Michigan is for low serial number cars while California, being at the end of each production wave, has a much higher average. Mexico is the luckiest bunch of buggers - as all their cars came from two series of VINs, all of which were in the 100s.
Attached is a summary of the geographic distribution of the 1,886 to give an idea of where they're going. But just a few quick footnotes pertaining to the totals first:
The overwhelming majority of cars are simply ordered by and delivered through the allocated dealer. However, some situations can make attributing a particular car to one area or another rather subjective. For example, if a customer buys from a Chicago dealer but has a car shipped for delivery to a dealer near his vacation home in Florida, the car generally is attributed as a "Florida Unit".
Another phenomenon involves cars for export beyond the 50 states, Mexico or Canada. Generally, these cars will be exported through one of three port locations in Baltimore, Jacksonville, or Southern California and most summaries will attribute them as MD, FL or CA units. When known, this summary attributes the car to its actual destination dealer location, for example, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
A third exception case involves Military/Diplomatic purchases which generally are coordinated by the Military Exchange program in Fribourg, Switzerland. Some cars are exported abroad to active duty service personnel and diplomats in their respective countries of duty. These cars are designated Switzerland. However, such orders are often placed and shipped to the service member's (or diplomat's) hometown dealer for pickup upon return from abroad. These cars have been attributed to their respective states which include, among others, ND and NY.
The final case is handled by Ford's own export department which handles special one-offs. By default, these cars are attributed to Michigan. However, as in the case of one car which was exported to Algeria and another to Canada, such cars are attributed to their actual destination areas if known.
In most cases, these won't impact an area's total more than one or two units. But it will account for any discrepancies between this and other summaries that simply attribute each car to its "accounting" destination rather than its actual destination.
One other piece of data I chose to include for grins was the average Serial number of the cars that went to each state. One can see how highly favored Michigan is for low serial number cars while California, being at the end of each production wave, has a much higher average. Mexico is the luckiest bunch of buggers - as all their cars came from two series of VINs, all of which were in the 100s.
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