Seems like assumptions are being made, so Levine gets the blame. Does someone know why dealers have stock? Are they Broncos that had a buyer but the customer didn't buy for whatever reason?Not the first time Levine has been full of shit.
Small engine softtops that could be built if dealer reservation holders want constrained builds.Seems like assumptions are being made, so Levine gets the blame. Does someone know why dealers have stock? Are they Broncos that had a buyer but the customer didn't buy for whatever reason?
Also person asking Levine the question wasn't very clear with what he asked and the way Levine replied indicates 21's are still shipping. Perhaps there's a different answer for 22's?
@Ford Motor Company @mrlevine want to comment and prove it wrong?Not trying to be facetious here; Where did you get the idea that Ford sees building fancy stock or recent walk-in orders for their favored dealers over reservation holders as a problem?
Ford added the allocation system after the bulk of the reservations were taken. Ford chose to make the current (2022) allocation system formula take exactly zero weight from where the reservations are sitting when deciding where to send Broncos. Read that again... Ford doesn't care if a dealer has 0 or 1000 reservation orders, they don't use that info at all in deciding where to send Broncos. If your dealer has 200 combos that Ford can easily build, but only gets 50 allocations, then the other 150 wait. If another dealer has 10 combos that can be easily built and gets the same 50 allocations, they don't move those extra allocations to the folks waiting at the first dealer, they build 40 dealer stock or walk-in orders at the second dealer.
It would be great if they did what you believe they will do. It would, in fact, be fulfilling the promise of building reservations before dealer stock (aside from logistical/commodity constraints, reservation holders would be ecstatic, big dealers, not so much). Past (and current) performance from Ford says differently though.
I simply suspect they want to avoid the sort of PR disaster that would emerge if they are selling thousands of "fancy" Broncos off dealer lots while thousands of people who reserved two years prior are still waiting months and years for identical "fancy" builds.Not trying to be facetious here; Where did you get the idea that Ford sees building fancy stock or recent walk-in orders for their favored dealers over reservation holders as a problem?