Originally Posted by jimhelm (Post 786364)

The Imports are a little different than domestics. The cars built in Japan in particular. They build combinations that their statistics tell them sell well... and send them. the distributors then mete them out to dealers based on an allocation system... usually earned by sales volume. as traceur says, this does get circular, because you can only sell what you have...and that reinforces what they already thought was wanted. if it's wrong... it's hard to get that info up the ladder.

There is a lot more trading of vehicles between dealers for color and specific equipment combinations. That ads cost and delay to deals. Every once in a great while, we will factory order...and you can expect to wait 3 months for that.

When I worked at Jeep, I could have your car in 3 weeks with your name printed on the Window Sticker.

The Monronie Label (Window sticker) would have this printed:
This Vehicle Built Specially For:

and then your name. Cars ordered for customers would get first priority, so we would put in bogus orders. Tony Dungee, George Costanza, etc.

Had I seen that episode of Seinfeld, I'd have ordered a brown Sebring for John Voigt