WTF is a regional constraint?

[balucipher]

So it’s a dealer lottery, just another version of the allocation lottery. Ford really overthinks reservations, orders and lottery winners.

It's a system that had been in place for a long time before reservations were the cool hot thing. Ford stole the idea from Tesla and the other EV startups but forgot they had long standing legal relationships with their third party dealership network and launched a very complex product with too many trims and too many drivetrain/door/roof/package options in a pandemic and really wrecked most of the people on the hype train.

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[atonge40]

Please someone has to know……

It’s what happens when a man and a woman love each other very much and engage in an act called “purchasing a new Ford Bronco”. Both are left unsatisfied and end their relationship.

 

[3G & 6G]

Ford stole the idea from Tesla

Ford was doing custom orders way before Martin Eberhard ever started Tesla.

 

[mybikeisred]

Ford uses the term regional constraint across their entire lineup for years now. In normal times with no production constraints, it lets them direct stock orders to where they're most needed. For example, a 2wd open diff F150 isn't going to sell for shit in Pennsylvania in November, but it'll sell fine in the South or Southwest, so they regionally constrain that.

For the bronco, I think even though we see glimpses of regional constraints leaked, they've been the same nationwide. Ford continues to use the terminology to keep it consistent throughout their platform

That would make sense for stock orders, but a special order already has a buyer. If they’re just trying to keep the terminology consistent, this is a new one to me.

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