As you can see from my sig I have a specific set of options in mind and in fact already have a car on order. However, that doesn't stop me from looking through as many local (and some not so local) dealer inventories to try and find "my car."

I have gotten pretty good at grabbing zip codes from major metropolitan areas and using the ford direct site to at least get a rough idea which dealers tend to carry a lot of inventory and more importantly, at least to me, GT inventory. Just today I looked at probably 30+ dealerships spread all over CA and in 3 major cities in TX (Dallas/Ft. Worth, & Houston).

There are a few interesting things that seem to hold true.
- Dealerships tend to break one way or the other for auto vs. manual. They will generally have some of both, but larger dealerships (i.e., more than 5 or 6 Mustangs in inventory) seem to have a very high percentage or one type transmission than the other.
- Even the larger dealerships seem to only have 2 or 4 GT coupe in inventory lately, probably 3 or 4 vert's (lot of these are V6's), and dozens of V6 coupe's. One dealer had over 32 V6's.
- Of the GT's almost every one seems to have the Shaker 1000 option and no side airbags. Apparently dealers think people want loud stereos rather than safer cars.

In the last 3 weeks or so that I've been trying this I have found only 2 cars that came close enough to what I wanted to call the dealership to enquire whether they would sell at the x-plan price. Both places politely told me no. But heck I'm an optimist (to a degree anyway), so I keep hunting.

Besides it helps with the waiting… :sleep:

 

Thanks for the report, I have yet to see side air bags on any lot mustang.

 

No side air bags in dealer stock here in Canada either.

 

Paul,

Call 1-408-607-7978. Ask for Jack Kitterman. He's the fleet manager at my dealer. He's got some pull.

 

The dealer stock GT that we found (and bought) came with side airbags. No active anti-theft, though.