Details a bit sketchy, lots of exclusions, YMMV.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-employee-pricing-tariff-deal-2025/
https://www.motortrend.com/news/ford-employee-pricing-tariff-deal-2025/
Ford is offering employee pricing to all U.S. customers on most 2024 and 2025 Ford and Lincoln vehicles
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I'm guessing they're panic selling to get as much sold as possible before the economy collapses into a depression
Ford might be offering employee pricing, however things change once you get into the dealership and the dealers play their typical rip off games. Maybe in a few months dealers might ease up on their rip off games if/when things get worse for them.
The only Ford in which I would be interested would be the F-150, and I’ve already got a truck. I’ve owned several Fords, a Fairlane, Explorer and Expedition, I’m not anti-Ford, but their product line leaves a lot to be desired.
It has meaning - it’s the X plan. It’s a percentage under invoice. About 3% when I bought my Expedition (my brother in law worked for Ford).
Whether or not the dealers honor this is a separate matter, however.
That's a good point--don't buy now if worried. Automakers have lots of incentives to keep lines going and pushing inventory to dealers. If dealers have inventory pile up... the real incentives may finally come out.
Then again I've been putting off car buying for a few years now, just waiting for the market to normalize and go back to something resembling sanity. That is to say, I've been more wrong than right lately.
Small discount on Inflated prices. Thanks OP but this isn't even remotely appealing. Surprises me that these type of promotions get people to buy a new vehicle but still the situation is murky & the big three will need to get more creative than this.
I flip flop on buying a new JL Rubicon. I'll wait, they got too greedy. They might be eating some humble pie soon.
Ford did too good a job making my 98 F150, 26 years later it still does everything that I need a truck to do so I'm not in the market for a 100K pickup truck.
Has anybody looked at how Fords stock is doing lately?.,,
The same as every other auto maker. The market assumes that tariffs will increase vehicle prices and slow sales.
It’s not unique to Ford. They’re the only ones to make a big pricing announcement, however.
If the discount in question is X plan, it really isn't all that big a deal.
My limited experience with it was years ago when I was dating someone whose Dad was a line worker in Buffalo and qualified for X plan.
She was looking for a new Aerostar van and went out several times looking, and was getting no where fast, to say the least.
She asked me to get involved. I took her to a Ford store about 40 miles away, where I had bought several Accords from their Honda store next door.
She found a van she liked. I told her to let me deal and see what I could buy it for without the discount, and then we would spring the discount on them at the end.
After 15 minutes of gyrations I had a price. She liked my price and decided to buy.
She then pulled out her X plan paperwork, thinking that she could beat my price.
They punched the info into the terminal, and out came the price.
She could have purchased the van through the X plan for $500. more than the deal that I negotiated.
Obviously, she took the deal that I negotiated.
My limited experience with it was years ago when I was dating someone whose Dad was a line worker in Buffalo and qualified for X plan.
She was looking for a new Aerostar van and went out several times looking, and was getting no where fast, to say the least.
She asked me to get involved. I took her to a Ford store about 40 miles away, where I had bought several Accords from their Honda store next door.
She found a van she liked. I told her to let me deal and see what I could buy it for without the discount, and then we would spring the discount on them at the end.
After 15 minutes of gyrations I had a price. She liked my price and decided to buy.
She then pulled out her X plan paperwork, thinking that she could beat my price.
They punched the info into the terminal, and out came the price.
She could have purchased the van through the X plan for $500. more than the deal that I negotiated.
Obviously, she took the deal that I negotiated.
I don't know the specifics of Ford's employee plan, but when I was selling Chrysler products in the early-to-mid 1990s their "Green Sheet" program was phenomenal. It was basically invoice price less holdback less advertising fees with any and all rebates/dealer cash included in the deal. It was truly great pricing...especially for high-demand vehicles like Jeeps, minivans, etc. We only made 60 dollars per sale, but they were generally very easy to close. And if you treated them right, they'd send family members and co-workers for the same deals.
Most folks would have lined up to take advantage of this pricing back then.
I feel for anyone who is in the automobile market now and in the foreseeable future. Uncertainty rules...
I'm curious if is it actually X plan. Dealer employees get D plan which is a bigger discount and Ford Corporate employees get A plan which is an even bigger discount.
Michigan is already feeling the change. DO people think that bringing back jobs will fill the assembly lines with workers like it was in the 50's and 60's? Clearly if so, they haven't looked at the robotics on the lines.
"Warning lights are flashing again. Retail activity in Michigan plunged last month, a recent survey showed, in a sign that consumers are worried about the economy. The fall “sounds the alarm that Michigan’s retailers are deeply feeling the impacts of the current economic uncertainty,” said William J. Hallan, president of the Michigan Retailers Association.
The tariffs, meanwhile, are the latest blow to the auto-supply base, which has taken multiple hits in recent years from pandemic factory shutdowns, the computer-chip shortage of 2021-22 and the UAW strike of 2023. “I’m just waiting for the zombies to come out of the woods,” said Lucerne’s Buchzeiger.
DETROIT—If President Trump’s trade war has a physical battleground, it is Michigan, where companies and workers are already feeling the beginning of an onslaught that could blow a hole in the state’s economy.
Nearly 20% of the economy is tied to the auto industry, which has become increasingly dependent on parts and vehicles from Canada, Mexico and China—imports Trump hit with steep tariffs in recent weeks. This trade has grown so large that Michigan ranks fifth in the nation by the size of its imports and exports, even though its total economy ranks 14th.
Detroit’s automotive executives have shifted into battle mode. They are stockpiling imported components, wrestling with suppliers over price increases and setting up war rooms to figure out how to cut costs.
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/gen...mp-s-trade-war-michigan-s-economy/ar-AA1CpyvF
I just watched a few videos showing that many dealers raised discounted prices(10%+) on many Fords to come up to “Employee Pricing”. (4-5% off MSRP) Ford has taken away large rebates available to consumer.
Incredible sounding PR move to be the good guy while subtly raising selling prices and removing costly rebates to Ford.
Incredible sounding PR move to be the good guy while subtly raising selling prices and removing costly rebates to Ford.
