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[CoyoteJim]

Just to clarify, this is where everyone should be, correct? Has anyone received the green check for “scheduled for production?”

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[SmoothJ]

Just to clarify, this is where everyone should be, correct? Has anyone received the green check for “scheduled for production?”

You have awhile till then…

 

[Fingers99]

There is no way the math works like this. It's not 15k divided by 2k or 3k dealerships. A dealership with 700 reservations shouldn't be allocated the same number of trucks as a dealership with 20 reservations or 100 reservations. Utah has 48 dealerships on the Ford directory, but the top 10 probably sell the massive majority of ford trucks.

I have been massively disadvantaged in this process by living in Utah and by choosing my very large dealership that I've purchased other Fords from.

Ford didn't give off the impression at all prior to 2022 that this was going to happen. My own dealership said I was in a great position to get a MY 2022. The general vibe was that allocation numbers would be related to dealership sales. At 14 out of 700+ at my dealership (top 2%) I thought it was a no brainer I'd get a 2022.

And now people are like "well there are 2000 EV dealers in the US so why would you think your dealership would get 14 or more 2022s?" Well, because 15,000 trucks divided by 200,000 reservations is 7.5%, and I'm in the top 2% at my dealership which sells a crap ton of trucks every year. Plus, I'm certain I was in the first 10,000 reservations.

You are getting 4 allocations? Out of how many reservations?

We have 485. 7 would be the average, not what everyone will get.

 

[jb56]

We have 485. 7 would be the average, not what everyone will get.

If there were 200,000 reservations and you only consider 2000 dealerships, that is only 100 reservations per dealership. If you consider 3000 dealerships, it is 66 reservations per dealership. So your dealership with 485 and my dealership with 734 (or so) should get substantially more than average if reservations have anything to do with it.

My dealership is being allocated 6 for 2022, which is less than 1% of the number of reservations. Your dealership is less than 1% the number of reservations.

So while I understand now that Ford is playing games and I was wrong to assume my dealership would get 14 or more trucks, I think it was reasonable to assume in September that 2% of the reservations at my dealership would convert to 2022 orders.

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