SnBGC
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I don't know the answer to your scenario.....none of us here do. However, I do know that Ford has been sending out e-mails to encourage reservations holders to convert to orders and also having the dealers follow up with phone calls etc. Each of those messages has language that pretty much says your 'place in line' (as we recently started calling it) may be in jeopardy.This brings me to another question on what would happen for people like me who reservation/order date is the same.
For example lets assume that I was the last person to reserve it and my number on the queue is 100,000 in reservation. Now there is no reservation, but directly orders on any new reservation.
Also assume that 40000 prior reservations have been converted to orders. So effectively my order is 40001 in the order queue.
As per some posts, i am seeing that Ford has some limitation for the amount of Batteries they can get for MY2021. It seems to be in around 50K range. So they cannot deliver more that number of vehicle for this model year.
Now lets say 20000 out of 60000 people who are ahead of me in the reservation list convert theirs to the order in late December after test drives. That would bring the total order count to be more than Ford can deliver.
In the current scenario, my fully Accepted order will be bumped out and would not be delivered for model year 2021 for the people who are placing their final order more than 2 months after my order. They should have some prioritizing for people who are ready to place an order without even seeing the car and have the delivery in the order of "Ordered Queue" rather than "Reservation Queue".
Or Ford should ask reservation people convert theirs to order within a smaller time frame before accepting any more new orders if they have a Battery constraint.
All these would irrelevant if Ford can get more batteries and increase production. The best case for all of us
I could be wrong but if your order is in Accepted status then I don't think it will be bumped out. Insider information posted here makes no bones about it.....if you have a reservation and you want one of these then you need to pull the trigger or expect to wait a while.
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