Most dealers getting 2 or 3 at best is a farce. Not even remotely true
Most dealers are not that large. I understand maybe a lot of them that you may talk to, may be large. The Raptor Allocation is based on sales volume. So a dealership that stocks around say 800 new vehicles like the dealer I am at, would be considered on the larger medium side. The Majority of dealers out there may only stock 200-250 new vehicles as a medium dealer. Several Small dealers may only stock 40-50 total new cars. Then there are the MEGA sized dealers like Galpin for example. Galpin has 2500 new vehicles (And they charge $15,000 over sticker for Raptors BTW. We sell to a lot of their customers) and Brandon Ford in Tampa that has 2100 new Fords. They are the exception to the rule. It isn't just about the amount of units stocked though, but that certainly helps. My dealer is on the UPPER MIDDLE of the volume of US Ford dealers. You know how they say "the upper class makes up only 2%" Same here. The MEGA Dealers make up about 2% of all the 3,550 Ford dealers around the country. Well, if every dealer got 1, that would be 3,500 Raptors. If every dealer got 6 for the entire year, that would be 21,000 Raptors built for the year.... Well, they used to build about 15,000, and now they build about 25,000 per year, and I can tell you if every dealer were to get 80, like the dealer I reside, (80x3500) then Ford would be building 280,000 Raptors a year. The math is the Math. A select few of the LARGER dealer get the majority of the Allotment, with the smaller volume dealers getting very few. The thing is, Ford is REQUIRED to provide EVERY dealer at LEAST 1 per year or they can be sued for being "Partial" or discriminating. That actually happened when they had SVT dealer franchises. A few small dealers sued them because they wouldn't let them buy SVT Cobras and Lightnings. Then they allowed EVERY dealer to be an SVT dealer. then changed it to "Ford Performance".
So if we do the math. If all 3,500 dealers got 1, and there were 21,500 left... then the rest of them were given 80... that only leaves 268 that could get 80. They are spread a little more than that. So most dealers get 2-3... (3,500 dealer x 3 per dealer is 10,500) then that leaved approx. 14,500 to split between the other dealers. Lets say 1000 of the 3500 dealers get another 5 for a total of 8... That's 8,000 more of the 25,000 total.... so that leaves 6500 to distribute. Lets say 500 of the dealers get another 10. That takes another 5,000 of the 6,500. That leaves only 1,500 to distribute. If you take that and divide it by 60 units each... that leaves 25 dealers across the country out of 3,500 that would get 3+8+10+60 for a total of 81.
So in the large picture, MOST dealers only get 2-3 per year. The thing is, most people don't realize how many SMALL town dealers there are out there. The one thing that got our dealer so much allocation above and beyond being based on general volume is that in 2014, they bought up all the small dealers Raptor Allocation across the US and sold them and earned more units that way by selling more. It's all based on turn and earn.
If you'd like to see what a small dealer looks like, click this link. It will surge their traffic... they have 21 new Fords in stock...
https://www.matlockford.com/new-inventory/index.htm
Here is another one (these are 30 minutes apart from each other) they have 28 new Fords in stock
http://www.communityford.info/new-inventory/
The Big cities have the BIG dealers. But the majority of the dealers are spread all across the US.
Anyway, I don't care if anyone wants one or not. If they do, they can buy one at MSRP, without $9 million dollar "Prep" charges like the big city dealers charge. Just trying to help.
