I believe that Ford will sell every GT500 they make. Some of the cars may sit for a year or possibly multiple years on dealer lots if the dealers are overly ambitious asking for super high ADMs, but the cars will sell.
This has been the worst thing I’ve seen from Ford, their dealers are so greedy. If it’s not limited production they should do the same thing dodge did and say “we’ll build as many as people want”! In the hopes that the honest, fair dealers get and sell the GT500’s, while the greedy ones sit on there’s.
Yeah, Ford really should put some effort into controlling this - dealers are "authorized resellers", they've under certain contractual obligations to get product, get comp'ed for things like warranty service, they should be easily reigned in. You don't see first tier resellers in other industries doing this (it's generally an end consumer buying and reselling the current hot toy/video game/concert ticket). At the very least put a cap on it, say 5% to __maybe__ 10% of MSRP for vehicles with production under a certain amount per year, the "limited availability markup".
I'm sure it would be nice to have the dealer sell the car cheap, then the people who initially get GT500s can turn around and sell for a profit. In your opinion, does the word "greedy" apply to a car owner who tries to sell it for as much as possible? Or does that word only apply when a dealer tries to do it?
I can understand why Ford allows the dealers some freedom. Many cars have to be sold under MSRP. Business can be tough. Ford lets the dealers figure out the best way to make money. If certain dealers go out of business, that shows they were doing it wrong. We all have the freedom to avoid those dealers that ask more than MSRP for cars. If no one ever bought from them, they would go out of business. So far the strategy seems to work fine for many dealers. So much so that some dealers buy cars from other dealers and then ship the cars across the country and ask for more money. Part of the problem is there are always new buyers and/or people with lots of cash that don't care about the ADM. They buy the car anyway even though they understand they are being charged extra money for it.
