I am an attorney. A contract in California is offer & acceptance. You need consideration, but your promise to pay is the consideration you agreed to. Your problem is, of course, that attorneys are expensive, but you might be able to find a young, raw-meat-eating lawyer to lay it on them. But, as I tell my clients, get your paperwork in hand as soon as possible, and if they are giving you grief, consider talking to an attorney before your baby Maverick shows up at the lot.I wrote this on another thread. Talk to an attorney to find out legal advice instead of letting the dealer bully you. Ford would not have built that Maverick without your order and DL#.
I am not an attorney but I will say my opinion. Basic business law says offer + acceptance = contract.
A contract does not need to be 10 pages to be binding and hold someone accountable for an offer you accept. Contracts can even be verbal per the law. Someone posted that they won a court case based on text messages.
The dealer will have a hard time telling a judge why they can take your order and then unilaterally decide on a future unknown amount to charge you later while holding your Maverick hostage, is not extortion.
I gather you are in California. You might want to call the attorney general's office once you get your paperwork. The AG is rough on fraud, and this sounds like, well, fraud.
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