Ford is warning dealers to play nice or lose....

[Muchmore]

Ford tries again to curb crazy dealer ADM's and sales slots. Maybe this time it will moderately successful.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/aut...150-lightning-allotment/ar-AASy4El?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[OEMPlus Raptor]

Just read about this and I'm surprised more people aren't commenting on it. Ford has to do something and hopefully this is only the beginning. I hope dealerships wake up or eventually someone will come up with a better way to buy a new car.

 

[GCATX]

Ford tries again to curb crazy dealer ADM's and sales slots. Maybe this time it will moderately successful.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/aut...150-lightning-allotment/ar-AASy4El?li=BBnb7Kz

It does suck to buy a car now. But, in "before times" we could usually count on getting 5-15k off msrp on whatever we wanted. It would sure s u c k if the "before times" discounts went away once things get back to normal. Then were at the mercy of Ford corp.

Something to think about.

 

[CoronaRaptor]

So, when you buy a lightning, it's just like the gt40, you can't sell it within the first year of ownership.

 

[Muchmore]

It does suck to buy a car now. But, in "before times" we could usually count on getting 5-15k off msrp on whatever we wanted. It would sure s u c k if the "before times" discounts went away once things get back to normal. Then were at the mercy of Ford corp.

Something to think about.

I bet you $100 that manufacturers won't go back to stocking 30-40 days worth of new vehicles anymore. Just to keep supply low.

 

[GCATX]

I bet you $100 that manufacturers won't go back to stocking 30-40 days worth of new vehicles anymore. Just to keep supply low.

Who knows. They seemed to do okay when the lots were packed with cars.

 

[GordoJay]

Ford tries again to curb crazy dealer ADM's and sales slots. Maybe this time it will moderately successful.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/aut...150-lightning-allotment/ar-AASy4El?li=BBnb7Kz

My read of it was that ADM was totally OK, but selling spots on the wait list was not. Did I misunderstand?

 

[CoronaRaptor]

My read of it was that ADM was totally OK, but selling spots on the wait list was not. Did I misunderstand?

I read it as " no baiting the customer to buy a vehicle by making them pay a higher deposit to sit in line for a possible purchase"

 

[smurfslayer]

there was only a hint at ADM, but there were clear overtones to not sell priority spots for the L or other related shenanigans. Nothing about the Raptor mind you.

but... If you start piling on Ford’s social media pages about stupid adm pricing for Raptors from certain stealerships and maybe they should get Raptors in the future, maybe it might help.

The problem is, let’s say you have a high volume stealer who sells routinely starting at 30k ADM. Then let’s say Ford decides, enough is enough and these clowns are hurting the brand.

Bad Stealer. No Raptor for you.

Now Bad stealer calls local stealers and buys their Raptors at MSRP and continues selling them at 30k over. Won’t happen? It did in 2017-2018.

There are multiple issues here to unpack.

1) Ford is totally f*cking up the delivery. Raptor, Bronco, Lighting, Mach-E
2) Short supply makes greedy stealerships even more greedy.
3) some of the stealerships are doing surprise ADM at time of delivery.
4) some of the stealerships are charging premiums to get first in line.

Ford sees some of this as hurting the brand, and they’re right. Buuuuuuuuut if I’m honest, I’m more pissed at Ford for marrying the tailgate step to the super expensive, really fragile and expensive to repair twin panel moonroof, that really has no place on a serious off road vehicle, than I am a greedy stealership.

 

[GordoJay]

Ford sees some of this as hurting the brand, and they’re right. Buuuuuuuuut if I’m honest, I’m more pissed at Ford for marrying the tailgate step to the super expensive, really fragile and expensive to repair twin panel moonroof, that really has no place on a serious off road vehicle, than I am a greedy stealership.

Good point. People love binaries. You see it in politics all the time. Dealer bad means Ford good. Ford bad means dealer good. For some reason people have trouble with bad/bad.