A new vehicle dealers only purpose is to take orders, and do the purchase paper work. It seems it would be the Ford Motor Company who is responsible for managing and prioritizing those orders, shipping those orders and making them available for purchase to those who ordered them. Dealers here don't talk about allocation and priorities, once ordered you're on your own. This mess is all on Ford. Come on Ford step up and take responsibility for this mess !!!! A little customer service would be nice, instead of the same old runaround!!
allocations are determined monthly. dealer would have no idea how many they have for the total MY until they balance out production at the factory and stop selecting orders for production.
not likely
Dealers are the primary contact with customers. Information should flow freely from Ford through the dealer to the customer.
That's one of the reasons people have been so frustrated. I know someone who recently ordered a 2024 Mustang Dark Horse. The dealer told him they only have 10 allocations but his order is one of those 10. If that dealer took 30 Dark Horse orders and mentioned nothing about their allocations to the customers, many would be disappointed and angry at the end of the production year.
Transparency is a new concept to some dealers. This whole endeavor has been a real education for me to get my Maverick, and the next time I order from a Ford dealer, I will have several new questions to ask. Allocations will be a subject to be discussed. No answers will equal no sale and I'll head down the road to find a more transparent dealer.
They know right now, but they have to string us along to get us to reorder 2024 with all the new rate hikes, ETC. It's all about the money baby!!!! I've already ordered 2022, 2023 with still no vehicle, I won't be put back on the waiting list again!!! 550 days today
I had more than a few dealers get my info in Jan/Feb 2022 and call up a week or so later saying they had some orders that "opened up." The dealer I went with straight-up told me that was a con to pay to be on a waiting list for orders when they actually open up, and they'd take my name (for free) and call me when orders opened up. They looped me in through the whole process, super great dealer.
If Toyota had a hybrid Tacoma I'd buy that shit so fast.
Traffic. It used to be in the 70s-2000s they wanted foot traffic and they got us there with banners, balloons, DJs, etc. Now everything is digital. They just want customer names and info...and they get it.
