Just a quick note on dealers: The last new Ford I bought from a dealer was a 6 hour experience. I came ready and got my vehicle for 3 percent over invoice and

Just a quick note on dealers: The last new Ford I bought from a dealer was a 6 hour experience. I came ready and got my vehicle for 3 percent over invoice and avoided all the cost pack ins at contract. It was brutal. And I used sales skills, as a buyer, learned from high octane types that get that money no matter what. In the years following, people gladly paid me $1k, plus a percent of the savings off MSRP, to buy cars for them. Did that a few times for a little extra spiff on my vehicle buy. Was a Ford Expedition, 2000 era vehicle. Those are made on the F150 platform and are great outdoors rigs, though I won't ever get another one, nor a new vehicle from a dealer again. Someone will make an EV Expedition type rig. Probably Ford will and I want it. People paying non trivial money to avoid the dealers is exactly why Ford is doing what they are doing.