But I’ve seen dealers use stock prioririties for retail orders. Most often trying to game the ok to buy restriction to get a new model earlier (which is stupid and doesn’t work because they hold all those anyway).
Retail orders use 03-19 priority codes and stock orders 20-80. The scheduling system looks at priority codes first and selects orders with the lowest priority codes first based on commodity constraint compliance. You know better!
When I worked at Ford & Visteon, high volume Ford, Mercury, and Lincoln sedans were considered loss leaders. Profit margins on Ford trucks, vans, and SUVs more than made up for that.
Ford's profit margin on F-Series is much higher than BMW and Benz on sedans and coupes.
and sometimes we dont have a choice....they get changed dfrom outside sources ( Ford ) quite often...may/ may not be to do with commodity issues...my OWN Bronco orders priority codes were a bloody roller coaster and were NOT changed by our Dealer principle whom is in control of that....