2022 GT500 order thread

[26E2A30D6F67]

For those who have received their car, how long after being built did it take to receive your car. Also what is your location and convoy ir rail?

I'm seeing this question a lot so I'll say.

It depends, it's a terrible answer, but it's true. Let me cover the 3 basic situations.

At the bottom of your window sticker it will either say CONVOY or RAIL, this is how it leaves the Flat Rock Plant.

Here's what those mean and how it impacts you.

1) CONVOY & Local Flat Rock Dealer - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will be trucked directly to your dealer. This is the quickest option, likely a couple days from when it's released it will be at your dealer.

2) CONVOY & Your dealer is East of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will catch a truck to the New Boston Rail Ramp to board a CSX train. This can take some time, as CSX will need a full rail car before they depart. Once the CSX train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

3 ) RAIL & Your dealer is west of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will be loaded onto a Canadian National Railways train (ramp is attached to Flat Rock Plant.) And will head towards Salem, IL where the railcar will be transitioned from a Canadaian National Railways train to a Union pacific Train. This Union Pacific train will then make it's way to your dealer's closest rail ramp. Once the Union Pacific train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

4) CONVOY & Your dealer is west of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will catch a truck to a BNSF Ramp to board a BNSF train. This can take some time, as BNSF will need a full rail car before they depart. Once the BNSF train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

So unless you're Adventure number one, where the answer is "Couple of days" the timeline will depend on where your dealer is, how far the rail ramp is from your dealer, and how quickly rail ramp workers alongside truck carriers can load/unload/deliver your car.

Enjoy the process!

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[rxsamg]

2) CONVOY & Your dealer is East of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will catch a truck to the New Boston Rail Ramp to board a CSX train. This can take some time, as CSX will need a full rail car before they depart. Once the CSX train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

This was me.......the car flew thru production then next day arrived at New Boston Railyard then sat........and sat..............and sat......THEN............it sat some more..........35 days to be exact until it FINALLY hitched a CSX ride to an eastern PA railyard over 5 days...........where it sat for another week until picked up by truck for the 30 mi ride to the dealer. BUT worth every agonizing moment from the hunt for an allocation/price to final delivery! Now I've been waiting another week & half for detailer to get it paint protected. Probably won't be done until next week too.......so I wait.........again LOL

 

[Gt500_4life]

@Hells Fury My "Scheduled to Week" was pushed from 9/12 -> 9/19 unsure when, as I don't bother my sales guy anymore since we got scheduled.

Are you still week of the 12th last time you checked?

Mine was w/o 8/22 with build date 8/26…moved to 8/29 but build date and scheduled week are the same. My opinion that’s not a good sign.

 

[26E2A30D6F67]

Mine was w/o 8/22 with build date 8/26…moved to 8/29 but build date and scheduled week are the same. My opinion that’s not a good sign.

Which part? The delay or the build day being a Monday?

 

[Houston Kid]

For those who have received their car, how long after being built did it take to receive your car. Also what is your location and convoy ir rail?

Built 06/13. Shipped about a week later via rail. Took delivery 07/28. So about a month to 5 weeks from shipment to my hands.

 

[Gt500_4life]

Which part? The delay or the build day being a Monday?

That the build week and build day are the same. Build day should be when it’s completed.

 

[26E2A30D6F67]

That the build week and build day are the same. Build day should be when it’s completed.

Nope, the two things have a 20% chance of being on the same day since build to date is always in the build to week.
It’s not a start/end date.

 

[Shelbyvin]

My build date was 8/29, just went into production yesterday on 8/22 and my window sticker finally popped up today on the site. Hopefully see this car by the end of September!

 

[Donkey]

My build date was 8/29, just went into production yesterday on 8/22 and my window sticker finally popped up today on the site. Hopefully see this car by the end of September!

They are building more 500's right now than they have all year I'm told, every 3rd car.

 

[TonyNJ]

They are building more 500's right now than they have all year I'm told, every 3rd car.

The August heat makes the Cup 2s nice and ripe.

 

[rp930]

They are building more 500's right now than they have all year I'm told, every 3rd car.

Love to see a picture of that.

 

[thedervidd]

I'm seeing this question a lot so I'll say.

It depends, it's a terrible answer, but it's true. Let me cover the 3 basic situations.

At the bottom of your window sticker it will either say CONVOY or RAIL, this is how it leaves the Flat Rock Plant.

Here's what those mean and how it impacts you.

1) CONVOY & Local Flat Rock Dealer - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will be trucked directly to your dealer. This is the quickest option, likely a couple days from when it's released it will be at your dealer.

2) CONVOY & Your dealer is East of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will catch a truck to the New Boston Rail Ramp to board a CSX train. This can take some time, as CSX will need a full rail car before they depart. Once the CSX train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

3 ) RAIL & Your dealer is west of the Mississippi - Your car once "Released" from Flat Rock will be loaded onto a Canadian National Railways train (ramp is attached to Flat Rock Plant.) And will head towards Salem, IL where the railcar will be transitioned from a Canadaian National Railways train to a Union pacific Train. This Union Pacific train will then make it's way to your dealer's closest rail ramp. Once the Union Pacific train arrives at your dealer's closest "Ramp" the car is unloaded and will wait for a local truck to transport it from the Rail Ramp to your dealer, this could take from a week to who knows. It depends on a lot of factors.

So unless you're Adventure number one, where the answer is "Couple of days" the timeline will depend on where your dealer is,how far the rail ramp is from your dealer, and how quickly rail ramp workers alongside truck carriers can load/unload/deliver your car.

Enjoy the process!

Thank you very much for this! What if your sticker says Convoy and you are west of the Mississippi? I'm in Nebraska and so is my dealer and my sticker says Convoy.

 

[26E2A30D6F67]

Thank you very much for this! What if your sticker says Convoy and you are west of the Mississippi? I'm in Nebraska and so is my dealer and my sticker says Convoy.

Do you have Painted Stripes? If so that CONVOY would be the truck to Penske.... If you don't have Painted Stripes, I'm going to be very confused.

 

[thedervidd]

Do you have Painted Stripes? If so that CONVOY would be the truck to Penske.... If you don't have Painted Stripes, I'm going to be very confused.

Nope, no stripes. Just a GT 401A with performance pack, active exhaust, B&O sound and floor liners.

Here is the window sticker: Window Sticker (forddirect.com)

Do you think something is sideways with the shipping arrangements or maybe something has changed with shipping methods?

 

[26E2A30D6F67]

Nope, no stripes. Just a GT 401A with performance pack, active exhaust, B&O sound and floor liners.

Here is the window sticker: Window Sticker (forddirect.com)

Do you think something is sideways with the shipping arrangements or maybe something has changed with shipping methods?

Nah, there's nothing wrong.

What's more likely is that your rail route does not begin at the ramp at the plant. I'm not familiar with ramp CA37, but I would imagine it's not the same Union Pacific route that interchanges direct from Flat Rock.

So what's likely happening is similar to east coast, your car will truck from Flat Rock to "a Railhead" I'm unsure which one, and then from there, it will Rail to Nebraska, (based on your bump code)... And then Convoy to your dealer

Let me see if I can find which rail yard in MI it runs from... I haven't seen one of these yet.

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