okay, I was at the dealership today, and I looked at two Shelby's. The markup was 20k for "market adjustment". So, the MSRP was about 43k on each.

the market adjustment is a polite way of saying "how much can we (the dealership) can take you for?"

how could anybody order a Shelby under these conditions? Do you have to be in bed with the dealer?

I am confused because the very polite salesperson (he has been there a while) kept on asking me to put it down. He would then take that offer to the "owner" and present it. The worse that could happen is I could get refused. If not refused, then I finance the MSRP purchase. One would finance the approx MSRP value of the car BECAUSE no lending insitution would borrow out more than x.xx dollars over the value. So, taking the 5,10,15,20k to the table as "money down" is for the dealership?

Someone help me understand this. Please?

I could purchase/order a car of this value. But how could you order unless you were in special favor to the dealer/owner. Because, the dealerships are only allocated x amount of Shelby's? Does anybody know how the ordering and allocation of the Shelby's is being done? I was told 6,000 were being produced and each dealership was allocated at least 2 Shelby's? I also heard 10-15k were being produced?

I heard of this in 05 on the Mustang GTs. Dealerships were getting allocation based on inventory moved and smaller dealerships lost out on sales because of this? Was ordering taken on a favored basis back then?

The Shelby's are in my head!!!!!!

ps, how is Ford doing currently?

 

Ford is doing horribly financially and dont let them lie to there is at least 9k gt500s being made for 07.