Ford sees itself forced in the US to have copies of two wildly popular models roll out of the factory in incomplete form. The main responsible for this strange state of affairs is, how could it be otherwise, a shortage of chips.
The cars are of course not sold in incomplete form, but have to wait until the necessary parts are available. The remarkable decision concerns the Edge and the F-150, the pick-up that can still call itself by far the most popular vehicle in the US. Great news, at least for the American market. According to Reuters the cars are stored without windscreen wiper motors and without working infotainment systems, although Ford itself does not go into detail about the exact defects.
The chip shortage has been gripping the auto industry for weeks and has already reached Ford Europe. Due to major shifts in sales numbers as a result of the corona crisis, supply and demand no longer match, causing many car manufacturers to miss out. Previously, this mainly led to production stops, but Ford is therefore taking a different path for the aforementioned models.
In a production facility in Louisville, Kentucky, production shifts are being scrapped. There it covers the Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair. In Europe we know the Escape as Kuga, although that Kuga is not from Louisville.