Have had a Tesla M3 performance since December after trading off my 80k mile Land Cruiser.
The Land Cruiser is and was amazing for me. Held its value, great road trip vehicle, but the gas milage was abhorrent.
I could live with it after retiring from the military while I was going back to school...
Sorry man, Granger has always been a dealership that actually cares about their reputation. I doubt they had any idea that Ford would limit the allocations to non-ZEV states so drastically.
I somehow squeaked through and was able to order from a dealer farther NE in Iowa then Granger. Owner...
Complained a little in a different thread, owner of dealership was told by ford that they weren't being allocated any lightnings this year.
Got the email to order.
Ordered.
I know the owner personally too. I'm number one. My brother is number two, but he didn't place his order until like 10am on the 20th. All others are a month or so after us.
The dealership is EV certified, I think the owner had to pay like 40k or some other insane amount of money for that...
They had about 20 reservations.
The dealership owner even called ford to complain. They told him that I think there will probably be less then 20 allotted to the whole state.
My brother talked to the owner of the giant (for Iowa) dealership in Ames and they are only getting one this model...
My brother is the finance manager at a local ford dealership in Iowa. I ordered mine at 930 CST during the announcement on the 19th. Figured I wouldn't be in the first wave, as probably a couple thousand ordered before me.
Now he just texted me and they got notified from Ford that they won't be...
Sorry this is my first post as I've just been lurking since I put in my preorder on announcement day. My brother is a sales manager for a local ford dealership here in Iowa.
He forwarded me this exact email he got direct from Ford to his work email. Luckily you know, brotherly love I'm in this...