I had understood that they could not mark up vehicles that were ordered during the pre-production period, aside from the regular "dealer fee". At least that's what they told me at the dealer. If a buyer backs away from a vehicle ordered, then that's a different story and the dealer can mark it up however they want. Is this correct?
yes, that is correct. Even though the dealer does not 'own' the vehicle, they can sell with any markup they think they can get from a consumer.
It does work the same way
If you log into the site where you generate your PIN, theres a Freq. Asked Questions - it gets capped to $100 on doc fees. This is a big deal where I am since that alone saves me $700 (and every dealership here does it, which is why if you don't have a 'plan', you go out of state around here.).
Try here the norm is $1000 and now I've seen places advertise their dealer fee of $1300 on trucks!
Yeah, its getting ridiculous. But this is why X-plan is so beneficial by capping them. Sucks my dealership is trying to get out of honoring X-plan on the Mavericks (point blank told me they are not doing X-plan pricing on it and won't until next year regardless of it being on the partner site today - my Ford rep lost her mind when I told her about that. I've never heard her say the F-word before, and certainly didn't expect her to use it that many times in one sentence either, but she is going to 'address the issue' with them which makes me very happy).
Rear diff? Since when does a front wheel drive have a rear diff?
I was at a local dealer who after telling me they would sell to me at cost to them, which was reducing their ADM down to MSRP still wanted to add $1000 dealer fee!! At another dealer I almost bought a Tacoma but I never could get a price out of them, only a payment and I had to use their financing! I have similar stories using Xplan on a ranger too until I gave up.
??? FWD doesn’t have a rear diff
That's why it's so late. lol
Same story here. The dealer is happy to have my business, but in this case would not be disappointed if I back away. His allocation is only two at this point. They could then mark it up to whatever they could get. That happened with the Japanese imports in the mid 1980's. I remember every Honda had an additional dealer mark up of $500.00 on a hand written window sticker. A significant amount for a $7-8K car.
A good guess is that the dealer makes little or nothing on the reserved Mavericks, especially since many a discounting something off the MSRP. They will likely be more enthusiastic when the dealers are able to order for themselves. Pricing will likely be much different.
