crzipilot
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- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2020 ST 2nd time around
Wife and I have pretty much decided the Sport is the next car. Hate dealing with salesman etc, and we've been able to get in and out to two dealers with no headaches. 1st dealer sales person was quite excellent and personable, told him what we wanted to know and do and we did it. No hassle no pressure nothing.....we will probably go back to him.
Now checking inventory there was only one dealer in town that had a sport in stock. Wanted to see if the 3.5 TT was worth it or not. So we walk in, looked like they were doing some sort of training, took about 10 mins. of sitting around, until we could finally walk up to a sales person and ask for help (strange right?!) So explain we wanted to look at a Sport, he says ok walks us out. As we are going out, explain that we wanted to see what the Plat. White and Silver colors looked like (all they had was red for the sport) So We check those out and I say "Ya we'd like to test drive it" so he says sure, it should be open, look what you want etc, he shows back up with the keys and says, go out the lot, do 4 right turns and you'll end up back here, and throws us the keys. He doesn't know our name, no nothing, just hands us the keys (should we have kept driving?!?!?!?)
Real quick, back to looking at the colors, there was an EX in the dark grey and I make a comment that I'd wish the Sport came in that. He states, Well if you order from the factory you can have any color you want in the line. It's like starting from scratch, Just pick whichever color you want and your good to go. Someone tell me this is true !!!!!!!
Anyways, we sit down and I say, with the combination of options we want we'd have to order, when is the last day to order a '13 and take advantage of the current incentives. He says some things that don't make sense, explain again what I'm asking and he says hold on. He goes and confers with someone, and he says, well you see they are always making '13s but the '14 will be out in June, and well we can just find the car you want somewhere. I ask again....when's the last date to order a '13, and he says we can order at anytime.
So after all that long explanation, obviously that sales person will not be getting my business, most likely that dealer won't either.
But can someone answer, when is the last point we can order for a '13 model. And how bad of a price uptick is there going to be on the '14?
Now checking inventory there was only one dealer in town that had a sport in stock. Wanted to see if the 3.5 TT was worth it or not. So we walk in, looked like they were doing some sort of training, took about 10 mins. of sitting around, until we could finally walk up to a sales person and ask for help (strange right?!) So explain we wanted to look at a Sport, he says ok walks us out. As we are going out, explain that we wanted to see what the Plat. White and Silver colors looked like (all they had was red for the sport) So We check those out and I say "Ya we'd like to test drive it" so he says sure, it should be open, look what you want etc, he shows back up with the keys and says, go out the lot, do 4 right turns and you'll end up back here, and throws us the keys. He doesn't know our name, no nothing, just hands us the keys (should we have kept driving?!?!?!?)
Real quick, back to looking at the colors, there was an EX in the dark grey and I make a comment that I'd wish the Sport came in that. He states, Well if you order from the factory you can have any color you want in the line. It's like starting from scratch, Just pick whichever color you want and your good to go. Someone tell me this is true !!!!!!!
Anyways, we sit down and I say, with the combination of options we want we'd have to order, when is the last day to order a '13 and take advantage of the current incentives. He says some things that don't make sense, explain again what I'm asking and he says hold on. He goes and confers with someone, and he says, well you see they are always making '13s but the '14 will be out in June, and well we can just find the car you want somewhere. I ask again....when's the last date to order a '13, and he says we can order at anytime.
So after all that long explanation, obviously that sales person will not be getting my business, most likely that dealer won't either.
But can someone answer, when is the last point we can order for a '13 model. And how bad of a price uptick is there going to be on the '14?
If you decide to order a 2014, send me a PM with your order number and dealer name; I'll be happy to give you weekly updates on your Explorer's status.
