JamieGeek
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To be fair to Ford, however: This is their first attempt at online ordering and they are handcuffed somewhat by the dealer friendly laws in each state. (Of course many dealers have done some form of "online ordering": E-Mail your salesperson and ask to buy a car.)To be fair, I think we've had a lot of buyers on these forums jumping the gun too early to get answers from dealerships before they even had a chance to absorb the info from Ford, especially for a vehicle that won't even start production until late-2020.
I get people being anxious, and I get people wanting answers. But from a dealership's standpoint, this is one minor model that most dealers won't even sell 5 of this year. Meanwhile they have many hundreds of other vehicles to keep selling normally.
Ford put dealers in a tough spot by announcing the Mach-e way too early, by taking reservations, and by creating a totally bastardized process relative to the norm (at least in the US).
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