GT350 Allocations

[Bulldogs22]

Just curious to hear everyones thoughts about this. I recently ordered a GT350 from a top 5 largest Ford dealership in GA with the only allocation they were allotted and saw another individual in Seattle order a car with his dealerships only allocation and other people stating this as well through various other large Ford dealers throughout the country. Does this relate to the GT500 production coming later this year so production of the recently updated 350/R will be super limited to be built alongside the GT500. A lot of people on here speculating on the CPC switch or the GT500 block so they are waiting, but it seems the time of the 350/R is running out most likely within the next year give or take so the time isn't to wait but order now.

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[white15gt]

Lol @ anybody who actually thinks the GT350 is going to get a cross plane crank

 

[svttim]

Lol @ anybody who actually thinks the GT350 is going to get a cross plane crank

Not happening. The Block, probably

 

[rick shea]

from Seattle:

I believe this is the major last refresher year for the GT350 until they drop for a while or it stalls out. It was originally rumored that 2018 was going to be the last of this generation build. The 2019 (or it may actually / practically be a 2020 like the GT500) has many standard items that were options in 2018, has many the improvements that are on the new GT500 but obviously with out the horse power. This is the pattern you see as a car moves from one generation to the next. Not sure what else could be changed in the future on the GT350 to update it. Maybe all wheel drive, automatic transmission with the console turn dial that is in the GT500, more digital electronics, the updated mustang headlights that are on the Bullet edition, supercharged, or the larger grill opening on the GT500? Not sure but not a big deal to me. Also when comparing the new 2019 GT350 with the GT350R there is now very little difference in the cars save the back seat delete. Although the R is special as there won't be many built this year and the standard GT350 is so close to the R with the options I ordered it wasn't worth the extra $7K plus dealer "market mark up" of another $15-20K. Both cars will have a short production run in 2019-2020 and will be very hard to come by at any any rate. I was going to order my own but the only difference in the dealer order and what I would have ordered would have been that I would have ordered the black roof option. I can always make that happened locally if I want. After visiting several dealerships in western Washington the message and pattern seemed clear, that select dealers initially only received a single confirmed allocation for the GT350 and no confirmed allocation yet for the GT350R.....even though they often tried to paint a different picture on order availability. So rather than take a chance of not getting one I took the one that was ordered by the dealer that used up his allocation.
My GT350 car order is in the new Performance Blue color, and has all options except the black roof. Pricing was MSRP plus a premium. The dealer premium, real or hopeful, allocation of cars, availability and delivery timing, were the biggest variables between dealerships, and one needs to be cautious in this regard. Dealers try to use orders as leverage with ford to increase their potential current pending allocations and set up future allocations. Good for them but no guarantee of anything for those ordering. It looks like this year will be a particularly unpredictable year given the addition of limited production of the GT500 and the already narrow manufacturing window at the Flat Rock manufacturing facility for the GT350 and Gt350R.
Just some thoughts. Hope this is helpful.
Rick

 

[rick shea]

from Seattle:

I believe this is the major last refresher year for the GT350 until they drop for a while or it stalls out. It was originally rumored that 2018 was going to be the last of this generation build. The 2019 (or it may actually / practically be a 2020 like the GT500) has many standard items that were options in 2018, has many the improvements that are on the new GT500 but obviously with out the horse power. This is the pattern you see as a car moves from one generation to the next. Not sure what else could be changed in the future on the GT350 to update it. Maybe all wheel drive, automatic transmission with the console turn dial that is in the GT500, more digital electronics, the updated mustang headlights that are on the Bullet edition, supercharged, or the larger grill opening on the GT500? Not sure but not a big deal to me. Also when comparing the new 2019 GT350 with the GT350R there is now very little difference in the cars save the back seat delete. Although the R is special as there won't be many built this year and the standard GT350 is so close to the R with the options I ordered it wasn't worth the extra $7K plus dealer "market mark up" of another $15-20K. Both cars will have a short production run in 2019-2020 and will be very hard to come by at any any rate. I was going to order my own but the only difference in the dealer order and what I would have ordered would have been that I would have ordered the black roof option. I can always make that happened locally if I want. After visiting several dealerships in western Washington the message and pattern seemed clear, that select dealers initially only received a single confirmed allocation for the GT350 and no confirmed allocation yet for the GT350R.....even though they often tried to paint a different picture on order availability. So rather than take a chance of not getting one I took the one that was ordered by the dealer that used up his allocation.
My GT350 car order is in the new Performance Blue color, and has all options except the black roof. Pricing was MSRP plus a premium. The dealer premium, real or hopeful, allocation of cars, availability and delivery timing, were the biggest variables between dealerships, and one needs to be cautious in this regard. Dealers try to use orders as leverage with ford to increase their potential current pending allocations and set up future allocations. Good for them but no guarantee of anything for those ordering. It looks like this year will be a particularly unpredictable year given the addition of limited production of the GT500 and the already narrow manufacturing window at the Flat Rock manufacturing facility for the GT350 and Gt350R.
Just some thoughts. Hope this is helpful.
Rick

Just received an oder update. My car has a vin number and will be build the week of Feb 25th. This must be a the first production week for the GT350 as I saw someone else recently got notice of their car being built that week also. Delivery is schedule by April 12th. My car is the 250th car to be assigned a vin number.
Just an FYI so other can triangulate order, build and delivery times.
Rick

 

[Bulldogs22]

from Seattle:

I believe this is the major last refresher year for the GT350 until they drop for a while or it stalls out. It was originally rumored that 2018 was going to be the last of this generation build. The 2019 (or it may actually / practically be a 2020 like the GT500) has many standard items that were options in 2018, has many the improvements that are on the new GT500 but obviously with out the horse power. This is the pattern you see as a car moves from one generation to the next. Not sure what else could be changed in the future on the GT350 to update it. Maybe all wheel drive, automatic transmission with the console turn dial that is in the GT500, more digital electronics, the updated mustang headlights that are on the Bullet edition, supercharged, or the larger grill opening on the GT500? Not sure but not a big deal to me. Also when comparing the new 2019 GT350 with the GT350R there is now very little difference in the cars save the back seat delete. Although the R is special as there won't be many built this year and the standard GT350 is so close to the R with the options I ordered it wasn't worth the extra $7K plus dealer "market mark up" of another $15-20K. Both cars will have a short production run in 2019-2020 and will be very hard to come by at any any rate. I was going to order my own but the only difference in the dealer order and what I would have ordered would have been that I would have ordered the black roof option. I can always make that happened locally if I want. After visiting several dealerships in western Washington the message and pattern seemed clear, that select dealers initially only received a single confirmed allocation for the GT350 and no confirmed allocation yet for the GT350R.....even though they often tried to paint a different picture on order availability. So rather than take a chance of not getting one I took the one that was ordered by the dealer that used up his allocation.
My GT350 car order is in the new Performance Blue color, and has all options except the black roof. Pricing was MSRP plus a premium. The dealer premium, real or hopeful, allocation of cars, availability and delivery timing, were the biggest variables between dealerships, and one needs to be cautious in this regard. Dealers try to use orders as leverage with ford to increase their potential current pending allocations and set up future allocations. Good for them but no guarantee of anything for those ordering. It looks like this year will be a particularly unpredictable year given the addition of limited production of the GT500 and the already narrow manufacturing window at the Flat Rock manufacturing facility for the GT350 and Gt350R.
Just some thoughts. Hope this is helpful.
Rick

My thoughts exactly couldn't have said it better myself thankfully we both have secured the elusive only allocation our dealerships were currently offering .

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