this should help. but you shouldn't stop there.
who is the point man for ford bronco. mike levine? is he the one in charge of of this train wreck of fails. i mean,..has the bronco division gotten anything right?
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this should help. but you shouldn't stop there.
who is the point man for ford bronco. mike levine? is he the one in charge of of this train wreck of fails. i mean,..has the bronco division gotten anything right?
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The board of directors is who is in charge and makes these decisions: https://corporate.ford.com/about/leadership.html
Mike Levine is just the public relations person. He doesn’t make any of these corporate decisions.
i find it hard to believe that the board of directors is making operational decisions.
whomever is in charge of the bronco division needs to step down or make things right. it's been one disappointment after another for many people
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Alternatively...dealers might eliminate Ford and source vehicles from a start-up assembler....at what?...half what Ford charges?
Once products lose differentiation, they become commodities. Ford products are not akin to IPhone, where a large market segment demands ONLY that.
You need to do a little more reading. Ford bit off more then it could chew then lied to it’s customers. Granger would have been just fine had Ford followed through with building reservations to time stamp like said they would. I changed to granger not for price but for honesty. The dealers around here deal more then just cars and trucks. A lot of shady stuff going on in the back warehouse at these dealers.
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It’s not about FMC “taking care of Granger.” It’s about reservation holders getting their Bronco built in a fair and orderly manner. Granger happens to have more reservations because of free market principles and ethical business dealings.
When did I say granger should get put ahead?
If you can show me where I said that it will show you can actually read and I can continue to have a conversation with you. I’ll wait patiently. For your information I don’t mind waiting for my bronco even though I ordered within the first 12 hours. That’s why I was ok with going to granger instead of giving my money to the drug dealer car dealerships here.
Thanks for applying the pressure everyone. Keep it up!
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So you’re dealer got a demo vehicle for test drives, but instead sold it then just parked it for 6 months?
Yes sir. Sorta.! They had it 1 month before I saw it and it already had 300 miles on it. This is not unusual. Search "mannequins" in this forum. You will find many comments regarding dealers making this decision. I did not have anything to do with this common sense practice. Mannequins are "money in the bank" after a retail customer has put a deposit on it. If a test drive results in an accident….poof…..the money in the bank just evaporated.!
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My dealer got a two door badlands demo. It’s parked in the showroom, unavailable for test drives and the manager has purchased it.
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Not saying dealers don’t do it or a lot of other shady stuff. Seems counter to the program for a dealer with a demo to refuse test drives on a vehicle intended for test drives. Whatever, enjoy your Bronco.
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Nobody is saying put Granger ahead. Put reservations ahead. Ford shouldn't punish reservation holders because the dealership they ordered through has a lot of orders but doesn't sell enough volume overall.
What's going to happen in this situation is that people who reserved in July 2020 are going to waiting for the allocation to hit their order while dealers in mega markets (Galpin Ford in Los Angeles, AutoNation Ford of Miami etc) will have stock orders sitting on the lot. That's not going to be unique to Granger or Chapman. Everyone here with a smaller dealer will see this. Ford doesn't see this as a problem because as long as the vehicle sells, they don't care. They don't care they promised to build reservations before dealer stock, promises are only valid to Ford as long as they are convenient. Ford's handling of the Bronco rollout from start to finish should be a case study on how to shit on consumers and build a toxic fanbase for an excellent product.
Contrast this with Jeep. They don't care which dealer in their network you order from. Retail orders take priority over stock. Gupton, Mall of Georgia, Granger, Chapman and more are battling each other out in trying to provide the best ordering experience possible on that side to get as many retail orders rolling as possible.
My Granger order is getting built the week of 11/15. I lucked out. I didn't go with Granger because saving $2000 off invoice was make or break for me. I went with them because of the knowledge, advice, honesty and integrity they've shared with the Bronco community. They could have done straight MSRP and I'd still have went with them. I'll call out Ford being cunts about this until they fix it.
What's going to happen in this situation is that people who reserved in July 2020 are going to waiting for the allocation to hit their order while dealers in mega markets (Galpin Ford in Los Angeles, AutoNation Ford of Miami etc) will have stock orders sitting on the lot. That's not going to be unique to Granger or Chapman. Everyone here with a smaller dealer will see this. Ford doesn't see this as a problem because as long as the vehicle sells, they don't care. They don't care they promised to build reservations before dealer stock, promises are only valid to Ford as long as they are convenient. Ford's handling of the Bronco rollout from start to finish should be a case study on how to shit on consumers and build a toxic fanbase for an excellent product.
Contrast this with Jeep. They don't care which dealer in their network you order from. Retail orders take priority over stock. Gupton, Mall of Georgia, Granger, Chapman and more are battling each other out in trying to provide the best ordering experience possible on that side to get as many retail orders rolling as possible.
My Granger order is getting built the week of 11/15. I lucked out. I didn't go with Granger because saving $2000 off invoice was make or break for me. I went with them because of the knowledge, advice, honesty and integrity they've shared with the Bronco community. They could have done straight MSRP and I'd still have went with them. I'll call out Ford being cunts about this until they fix it.
