Hi @DealerInsider do you have any updates on your allocations for the rest of the year? thanks!
First few days reservation still naively hoping for ‘22.
Here’s one, @Ford Motor Company - how about dealers with reservations get more vehicles. Clear those that will have been sitting since the start with no action. Novel huh?
@Ford Motor Company NO stock or dealer vehicles should be shipped when these are buildable orders for people that have been waiting so long. Week 1. Still crickets. Never another ford. Assuming this one ever comes. @mrlevine
“Sending more to larger dealers just ensures they stay larger but maybe they should be forced to work harder”
Except what @Ford Motor Company did wasn’t even that. There’s no real way reservations can be moved. So all it does is punish reservation holders and small dealers.
At this point, I don’t see any incentive from Ford to try hard to fill orders under the price promise. Inflation, labor and commodity costs mean these car generate less profit than newer orders.
My guess is they continue to deprioritise and wait for people to bail (they already made it...
@Ford Motor Company @mrlevine a corporate-speak non-answer. Existing long-standing reservation and order holders at these dealers have no options other than cancel. Transfers aren’t a real thing. Just like the promise to build in order of time stamp. @Ford Motor Company ‘investigating why’...
Sorry if already in the thread. Other publishers picking up on the original story. More bad press for @Ford Motor Company @mrlevine, who did not reply to request for comment.
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