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Originally Posted by Road_Warrior85
A few other people have already done a pretty good job of explaining the allocation system, so I wont dig into that. It supports my original notion, that the dealer screwed you, not chevy.
Chevy continued producing Camaros at the same rate as always. They weren't the shortcoming. Your dealer, who knows the allocation system/process, was not honest with you and strung you along. They were more interested in "Hopefully" getting a sale down the road, than they were helping you get the car that you wanted.
If they really wanted you to get the car you wanted, they could have reached out to another dealer, and given them your order, then had the car shipped to them. Extra steps for sure, but it gets you what you want and each dealer gets a little bit of money from the deal. No different than dealers getting cars off the lot from other dealers and having them shipped in to sell.
That you didn't get your 2023 is unfortunate as well. Once again though, your dealer screwed you. They knew they didnt have the allocations to get your 2023 order filled. Once Chevy stops accepting orders for the '23 year, it doesn't matter that you were still waiting to get one. Your dealership never got the order submitted. Chevy never even knew about you. The dealer probably made you put down a deposit, that you ultimately lost out on. In their eyes its a win/win. Either they get to sell you the car you want, or they get to take your deposit and run.
As for everything else..... your age made it all make sense.
I imagine the dealer also used that against you to take advantage of you. Either way, you're set in your ways and unwilling to compromise. That's not an insult, thats normal for your demographic. To all us younger types, we see ditching the manufacturers tires as 100% expected, especially once they wear down and we want to replace them with better tires suited to our use. Thats what the vast majority of us do, your demographic.... not so much.
Its pretty standard that a manufacturer produces each vehicle spec'ed out for a compromise of uses. If you've been on this forum any decent amount of time and read much at all, you already know that the culture of camaro owners (much like owners of mustangs, challengers, jeeps, or motorcycles) is to buy the vehicle and then change parts to tailor it to their specific use. So when you come here and say that it has to come "as designed by the manufacture" with the perfect spec tires for your use, it sounds weird (if not outright absurd) the the vast majority of people on this page.
I hope I haven't come across like an @sshole or d!ckhead too much. I am not trying to.
I could never be happy with a stock vehicle, they're always going to need to be modified to fit my tastes and driving style. Nothing is wrong with you having a different preference.
I hope your car suits your needs and you enjoy it.
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Lol. No offense taken, I guess.
Age has little to do with it. Try to avoid judging those you know nothing about. My last performance car was a M7 2017 Grand Sport, a car most young guys like you (ha ha) don't have a bank account to sniff. Age has it's perks. That's my return age shot, all in good fun of course to you, not to anyone else on this forum.
I put $0 down, and lost nothing. Based on the $10k I got off sticker on my Vette, I had good reason to believe my dealer would do what he said. He actually held up me taking delivery of that car until the next month so he could get me a $1500 factory incentive.
Actually the dealer and Chevy are the losers, missing out on every car/SUV we would buy down the road, plus not getting the benefit of word of my big mouth.
I have no idea what 'you younger types' do, nor do I care. Pretty presumptuous of you to assume what a guy over 60 or a young guy may or may not do with his car. Camaro6 is not a majority of Camaro owners. You could be right in your assumption or you could be wrong.
Bottom line: I ordered a car a specific way and did not get it. It happened for a reason. Glad those that did get one are having a great time. I'm happy for them.
Hope I wasn't too much of a-hole or Richard. I tailor my responses to the comments received.