To be fair, dealers have never made much money selling new cars. Used cars, service and the body shop are the driving profit centers.
Exactly 100%.. Born in the 1970's and witnessed the conversion from innovative manufacturing to all outsourced. Entire towns and communities lost their factories giving way to the service industry. We are in a transition period that will be a footnote of history for the economy of the U.S.
In this case, how do you handle inflation? If Ford sticks to the 2020 price, they may lose money....So unless you can lock in a price (I know Granger will do this) right now I wouldn't be waiting much longer to buy. This is where I'm at with my Bronco order which is through them. I'm price protected (hopefully Ford doesn't change this) with my 2020 reservation through 2023. If they decided not to honor this when the order banks open up next month you'll see a lot of very mad reservation holders dropping their orders because the prices are now $3,000+ higher. That's why I say if there's something on the lot close to what you're looking for try and make that deal happen. With the parts constraints and the manufacturers changing the rules whenever they want I'd grab what I can now.
Agree. But as I mentioned earlier, for that plan to work they will have to get ordered vehicles to customers a lot faster than they have been lately. Six months isn't going to cut it. We're not Russia. Yet.
Inflation, That's Fords problem! They should've stuck by their original plan and built all customer orders according to timestamp. If they did that everyone would've had theirs by now and they wouldn't be in this predicament.
So I checked again, cuz it was a little weird that I could only see like 50 miles out???
Good. I hope they suffer.
So Dave, if you had purchased your Bronco from one of the larger Phoenix area dealerships, would you have it today?
Your right on the paperwork Dave. When I picked mine up the sticker price was about $800 dollars more than the ordered price, F&I manager had me sign the paperwork that Ford would credit the dealer the difference since they would have paid the extra amount. Someone really screwed up at Ford this year I am surprised that they outsold Toyota for the first two quarters.
IDK it all depends on the allocations and how many orders they had and what you ordered because of the parts constraints. There are still many who have day 1 & 2 reservations who still don't have their Broncos where others who have identical builds are driving theirs.
That specifically is the type of dealer Ford is on the hunt for. Resellers.
I read elsewhere that Ford recently fired the plant manager of the Bronco plant.IDK it all depends on the allocations and how many orders they had and what you ordered because of the parts constraints. There are still many who have day 1 & 2 reservations who still don't have their Broncos where others who have identical builds are driving theirs.
This wasn't part of the original agreement and was supposed to be by timestamp (reservation number) only. Then the larger dealers weren't getting a lot of orders because they were either at MSRP or adding huge markups. So of course Ford catered to them by changing the rules and added the allocation system which now favors large volume dealers and screws the little ones. Honestly Jim I'd rather wait (or not got one at all) than deal with these larger dealers.
