Just to be clear, anti-trust laws prevent Ford from telling independent businesses how to price. And as I understand it the dealer principles have a lot of pull with Ford and the local governments for that matter, but if any of the reasons for the allocation formula mentioned in this chat were...
I have to call bullshit on that thin margin, on average a dealer‘s overhead is 10-15% for each new vehicle, that magical invoice number they are more than eager to share with you is less than 8%. You will not find on the internet what an actual dealer pays per car, for those that want to dispute...