Ford X-plan?

[orb]

Anyone know anything about this? I'm looking to buy a new Volvo station wagon for the wife and supposebly you can get a great deal if you buy one through a friend or family member that works for Ford or a company Ford works with.

Any truth to the rumor?

 

[jwstewar]

I work for a company that buys most of its car from Ford. We can buy vehicles through the X plan. The deal for the car is OK - not great I've done better just through normal negotiations. My experience was though, if you have a trade don't bother. They won't give you anything for the trade. If no trade it does at least stop the whole negotiating process and get you at least an OK deal.

 

[dmccarty]

orb,

I used the X Plan to buy my Truck and it worked ok. At the time
there where not any incentives and even now in my area I don't
see that many great ones. A better rate on loans and that is
about it.

I did a trade in and I got an ok price. The tactic to use with a
trade in is to get the deal done on what you are buying before
moving to the deal on the vehicle that you are selling. I sold
my old truck for about $100 less than what I thought I should
get. Given the market on used vehicles I got an ok price for
it and certainly worth it since I did not have to bother selling
it myself.

The problem that you have is that the discount that Ford gives
for Volvos is not all that great. You can sign up with Ford to
get your X plan number. Once you have done that you can,
at least with Ford's vehicles, view the X plan pricing on the
car you want or want to build.

Depending on the market in your area you might be able to get
a better deal buy negotiating vs X Plan. But X Plan does not
cost you anything so give it a shot and see...

Good luck,
Dan McCarty.

 

[cowboydoc]

X-plan gets you about 2% below invoice and NO REBATES. I usually can buy at 5% or so below invoice and get the rebates or special financing. It's easy to get xplan if you know somebody that works there. Alot of dealers will just give you xplan without having to mess around with doing the whole thing.

 

[jerrym4]

Just bought a car in August with the X-plan and I DID receive all of the rebates currently available....Plus a free sunroof only available to x-plan customers. My final price was nearly 14% off of invoice.

Here is some text from the ford partner recognition web site
"19. Am I eligible for other incentives? Yes, for most. Partner
Recognition participants are eligible for all public incentives and many incentives normally paid to the dealer. There are some offers that are not compatible with this offer. Your dealer can best determine which incentives you are
eligible for.

"

 

[AndyM]

You've got to watch, sometimes you can get the car cheaper through regular negotiation than with the X plan price when the dealer is running some specials.

X plan is offered to Ford suppliers and employees of companies that buy Fords for their fleet. The company I work for uses Fords and offers the X plan to us, but I never used it.

The A plan and Z plan is for Ford employees and Ford retirees, respectively. You get the exact same price with A plan as you do with Z plan. It's dealer's cost minus all rebates and other holdback. Pretty sweet deal! Needless to say, as the son of a Ford retiree, this is the only way we buy our vehicles!

Incidently, the A plan price is also available on New Holland tractors, but you have to be the actual employee, not a family member. /forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif

 

[thcri]

I just bought a F150 Crew Cab 2004. I am able to buy on the X plan and a D plan. The X plan pricing is ok, the D plan is great. However the F150 2004 did not qualify for the D plan and since it is so new there was no rebates or anything else on them yet so the X was the best for me at the time. We can buy E250's and F250's on the D plan but not the 150. The D plan they will take over 10 grand off a list of 33,000.00

If you are a good negotiator the X may not be your best deal.

murph

 

[dmp437]

If you have a family member that works for Ford that would be the "A" plan; the employee discount. Those are good discounts.

 

[Inspector507]

I "used" to get mine on D plan. But the brother no longer sells Fords, so I'm hoping GM has a similar plan 3 years from now /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[AndyM]

Those are REALLY good discounts. That's why all we have are Fords in my family-- I'm a son of a Ford retiree. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

I see Chrysler is offering really low one year leases to their employees right now. Someone was showing me their flyer the other day, but I didn't study the details too much.