Ernie,
On another site a poster claims he bought a 57,xxx dollar 2008 King Ranch from Tommie Vaughn Ford in Houston Texas for an out the door price of 37,xxx dollars. My thought was .................until I saw on another site where a poster claimed he was buying one for 19,000 dollars under MSRP from a dealer in Texas and then proceeded to post an ad that showed Tommie Vaughn Ford selling Super Duties for 20,000 under MSRP. I went on Ford Vehicles website and searched out Tommie Vaughn's F250 inventory and found 15 pages (12 to a page) of F250's, 2 pages of them King Ranch's. F350's produced another half a dozen pages IIRC.... I know there's a lot of incentives with employee pricing and such, but my salesman here at home says there's not that much. How are they doing this?

Maybe the guy's in receivership, lol

I know I'd hate to have that floor plan.... You'd have to have the heart of a riverboat gambler to have that kind of inventory at a time like this...

Damn good question. One thing to rmember- Texas always gets more regional incentives than the rest of the Nation. That sounds on the high side though- wonder if that discount is against MSRP or "dealer adjusted price."

Holy crap, that's a lot of floorplan. At roughly 6% interest and an average invoice of around $40ish.... wowsa!

Tom, if he was going under, there's no reason to lose money on a deal since Ford'll own them after all the dust settles. Being greedy car dealers, we try to keep our losses to a minimum.

Unless you know they are coming to take you away ANYWAY, lol

mrfixit said:

Unless you know they are coming to take you away ANYWAY, lol

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Good point. I still can't believe that dealer's inventory. I've whittled the Tahoes/Suburbans down to about 26 units combined, but at the current rate of sale 5-10 would be the right number. 43 pickups in stock though, and that's waaay too much. Not long ago, I'd be in panic mode if I got down to 40 pickups on the ground (two good weekends would wipe you out of inventory). Now, it's a six month supply.

Look for some truly ugly sales figures for July, BTW. Much worse than the June #'s.

Any chance these are flood trucks?

I went on Ford Vehicles today and checked his inventory. As of today there was 1 truck short of 7 full pages of F250's, less than one page of 350's, and 14 pages of 150's! He's moving them...

I just got a flier from my local dealer that says, "Up to $15,000 off of MSRP for F series trucks"...

Our dealer principal has a source somewhere down there that buys every 2 wheel drive pickup that we can get to him. I guess theres a market there that isn't anywhere else.