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Originally Posted by DevilsReject97
I'm going to disagree with your sentiment. Personally, it sounds like your dealership failed you, not GM/Chevy. Now, you can make the argument that Chevy screwed around the Camaro production, etc, etc, and you'd be correct. However, that's your dealership's responsibility to address those issues, and if they legit don't think it can happen, to get you the 2nd best option.
It clearly sounds like your dealership failed you. I'd also argue that after getting the run around, it might have been partially your fault for not considering a second option with regards to the dealership.
We can also argue no one expected the strike to occur which screwed over all of the manufacturers and caused unexpected issues to occur.
All I can say here is that if I waited 10 months to get a car, and didn't get one, the only people I can blame is the people I placed the order with and myself. Saw this happening in the Hellcat crowd too because dealerships were taking orders for cars they couldn't get allocations for....and it sounds to me like your dealership simply wasn't getting allocations/you weren't a priority customer for them.
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I get your point.
I thought I had a really good relationship with my dealer, and gave him several opportunities along the way to bail on my order if he felt he would not get an allocation. He assured me he would get one so I hung in there. My mistake to trust him.
As for Chevy's culpability in this: In my opinion, it is a flawed system that fulfills orders for 2024 models ordered in August when there are standing orders for 2023s that were ordered 5 months before and not fulfilled.
Maybe I don't understand the system, but if a customer...ANY customer...orders a Camaro they should be in the cue to get a car on a first-come-first-served basis according to when the order was placed. Why screw customers who happen to maybe not live anywhere near a high-volume dealer?
Anyway, can't change things now. It won't happen again.