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Originally Posted by laborsmith
These parameters are the result of court suits and are designed to withstand litigation while conforming to franchise laws, of which there must be 50 because each state has their own. They may not apply to Canada and only your dealer would know.
But for most of us, it comes down to this: does GM twist the procedures that are known to be legally defendable or lose a customer. These allocation court suits are not simple million dollar lawsuits and a loss there would likely wipe out the anticipated profit for the whole C7 model year. At the minimum.
Any late orderer, and I count a Corvette August order as late, will need to take these parameters into consideration. For example, when there are more Z51 allocations available, does one place their order with a dealer that might get one allocation a month or with a dealer that gets 100 a month? If the constraint is 50% the odds of the former getting a Z51 thru are minimal and for the latter are excellent. I have seen an option constrained to as little as one nationwide.
Laborsmith
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Amen - the days of the 50/60's where the mfrs gave out cars on who they liked were brought to a grinding halt in the late 70's by a suit against American Honda and it's executives. Millions of dollars of fines were levied against Honda and James Cardiges, the VP of sales went to jail. After that all companies went to strict formulas on who gets cars based on their prior sales - known as "turn and earn". Then the state legislatures got involved with the franchise laws and made what a mfr can "tell a dealer what to do" even harder. The reps no longer hand out the cars, it's all automated and formula.
if you can ever find it read "Arrogance and Accords" - the story of the Honda auto scandal....