When was it ever common?
Zach and hIs crew are definitely a stand up bunch. Complete transparency and upfront about everything. That was another factor in why I was originally drawn to travel 500 miles for my bronco purchase….. and Ford just shit all over them.
Although I like Fords and other brands of things, customer support (and dealer support ) also plays a part in what I buy. I made a conscious decision several years ago that in the blink of an eye I will walk away from a brand if there's even an inkling of underhanded business and unfairness. Cases in point, I dumped Comcast aka exfinity for Metronet fiber and couldn't be happier. That deal got even better when I put up an antenna and cut the cable portion to streaming. I've also done the same thing to cell carriers when they refused to offer the exact same "deal" for existing customers whose contract had expired as they do for a new customer. (Humph now they do just that) I've dumped cellular one, Sprint when they bought and butchered Nextel. T mobile, and Verizon. After Verizon we went with At&t. When that contract expired we went back to Verizon for the best deals and plans (4 phones) plus we got in on an included deal adding espn+, Disney+, HBO max and Hulu all for less than what we paid At&t. I've long been done watching out for corporations. karma is b!$&*!Ford really just screwed Bronco order holders again! They put out their new allocation formula yesterday for the '22 year and it's basically screwing over every small dealership that has a Bronco reservation and rewarding big dealerships. Ford initially said the EVERY order would be filled by reservation timestamp but then the larger dealerships complained and Ford changed to an allocation system.
In other words a small town dealership like Granger Ford in IA where me and Jim @wanted33 bought ours who has 1075 orders will only get 150-220 at best filed in 2022. At this rate I'd be lucky to see mine until 2024, right in time for the next Gen Bronco!
I know I've said I'm a huge Ford fanboy but honestly Ford can go #@!& themself if this is how they're going to treat their customers and their smaller dealers. This is what they want to do going forward, a reservation based system where you have to special order your vehicle and only have limited dealer stock. I know other launches might not be as disastrous as the Bronco launch as there was a 25 year hiatus but it's still a BS move by Ford to change the rules to benefit their big time dealers instead of HONORING their original agreement. There are a lot of unhappy Bronco order holders now and I hope Ford gets an earful in the coming weeks, probably won't do any good though. Sorry for the long rant but it's not the news I wanted to hear this Saturday morning. /rant over....for now
Kenny, I told the wife today that Ford better be happy I bought my Ranger when I did. If I would have known this would happen I'd be driving a different brand.I see a lot of post where reservation holders are canceling and just buying a different model Ford . This of course only rewards Ford and the dealers as Ford still makes a sale and the dealer has a Bronco to mark up . Win/Win for them . I have a 7/20/20 res for a 2Dr Badlands and went by my dealer yesterday (one of the larger ones in Alabama) and the Bronco specialist was trying to push a 4DR soft top change if I want my Bronco sooner . I told him nope , that if I couldn't get the Bronco I wanted within a reasonable time that I would just trade the Ranger I bought to tie me over in on a Jeep . Kinda regret even buying the Ranger now . I should have went ahead and bought the Jeep I looked at and rode up in it . At least I'd be driving the Jeep instead of my Ranger being down for a month waiting on a part
I don't watch NASCAR or that much tv so I had to look this up the other day. At first I thought I missed something on here in regards to our own Brandon @dondonbabyraptor and I saw it in Sids signature. Very fitting for both Ford and JB. ?It's already started my friend.
To be f'd over by a different profit centered large corporation.
I always try and stay away from first year models and my first year Tacoma had it's share of problems. Besides my '16 Tacoma I've owned Fords since the mid 90's and never remember any disastrous launches. It started with the Explorer and now the Bronco so I don't have high hopes it won't continue going forward. Again this has nothing to do with parts constraints but they way Ford handled this.
