Here's a quote from my salesperson's regional factory representative (as of earlier this week):

That means the Ford factory is pulling three orders a week per zone! :bang: Orders are pulled oldest first (obviously).

Does anyone know how large a Ford dealership zone is - on average, how many dealerships does that represent?

 

This is going to be a little confusing. There are 2 typrs of dealers, select dealers and contact dealers. Normally select dealers are in smaller markets and do not sell a very high volume of vehicles so they do not have a Ford regional rep who physically calls on them. Most is done by phone. The other are the contact dealers which are normally in larger markets and have a rep call on them. I am not as familiar with select stores which from your post sounds like your dealer is.

The allocation for select dealers is usually a lot less than for contact dealers, for example in the 1st 06 allocation period, which just ended we had 5 Mustangs allocated and I got 3 GT's scheduled for customers. Our zone has approx 20 dealers in it so obviously it got a lot more than 3 GT's.

Every Zone is different and goes by geographical area. How many dealers are in a select zone, I have no idea. One zone could have a few while another a lot.

I know this does not answer your question the way you would like but perhaps one of the other dealers on TMS is a select and can shed more light into that area.

 

Yes, it does sound like mine is a select dealer which, I understand, means they will get their allocation filled more slowly than contact dealers. So if I had ordered with a larger dealership (and paid retail or above!) I may get built faster?

Thanks for the information, Ed. This really helps.