I have talked to my dealer before about the courtesy and mannequin vehicles. Ford does not dictate the Courtesy vehicles that is the dealerships. These vehicles are build by the dealership. Ford does, however, dictate the mannequin vehicles and are not able to be sold until Ford releases them. If a non customer and non mannequin tagged vehicle hits the dealer lots it will be sold for 10k over I bet.
FYI. my Bronco Sport was tagged as a mannequin vehicle and they had to contact Ford to get permission and release the vehicle for sale. This took 48 hours to release. Ford had tagged it mannequin after we had put a deposit down on it. Otherwise we would have had to wait 30 plus days to get it. The bonus is I got all the accessories that they had sent with it for free for the trouble. I offered to pay but they insisted.
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