Maker of US's top-selling vehicle stuns dealers with June price rise warning due to Trump's tariffs

Customers thinking about driving America's top-selling vehicle off new dealership lots should think fast.  

Ford — the maker of the F-Series pickup, America's best-selling vehicle for nearly 50 years — told dealers that sticker prices will climb across its vehicle fleet in late May or June. 

While prices on cars already sitting on dealer lots won't change, the automaker says that vehicles built starting in May are another story. 

'We will not increase the MSRP (manufacturer’s suggested retail price) for any vehicle currently in inventory with our Ford and Lincoln dealers,' Andrew Frick, a Ford executive, said in an internal memo first obtained by Automotive News. 

'However, in the absence of material changes to the tariff policy as articulated to date, we anticipate the need to make vehicle pricing adjustments in the future, which is expected to happen with May production.' 

Its a shocking admission about future car prices from one of the most tariff-insulated American automakers. 

Around 79 percent of Ford vehicles are built in final-assembly plants in the US, the company said. 

A Ford representative didn't immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.