Americas Dealer default locations for US pre-order

DaBull said:

Hi Krabby, Did my pre-order today 5-31-2023. I am at the coast in Ventura County, California. Santa Barbara is 45 min north of me and LA is 1 hour south of me. Ineos said in my pre-order that I would eventually be connected up with an Ineos Dealership somewhere in LA.
I'm guessing that mean Santa Barbara is not getting an Ineos Dealership.
DaBull

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Jeffrey said:

I'm in Santa Barbara. I wonder if Ineos considered the Santa Barbara Auto Group. Porsche, Land Rover, MBZ, Audi, Jaguar, BMW, and Acura. They seem like the likely choice, but I wonder if Ineos will pick a dealer that already carries Land Rover? Will Ford want it to compete with their own Bronco? Down the street is Chrysler/Jeep. Same question. I hope it's not Chevy or Toyota!!

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YellowLab said:

I've heard that Rusnak Auto Group that does RR, Bentley, Porsche, Jaguar, Maserati, Audi, BMW, Volvo, Landrover and MB etc - is the IG dealer for SoCal - hopefully in their WESTLAKE VILLAGE dealership area versus Pasadena or further east....I've bought the last 4 cars from Rusnak and they are very good to work with

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Ichabod said:

I'll be interested to see how many of us (including potentially me) finally cancel our pre-order after the dealer announcement. Between the reality of having a very distant dealer and the economic delta of today's prices/interest rates/etc vs when the reservations were made, they could be in for a decent reduction in orders.

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Ichabod said:

I'll be interested to see how many of us (including potentially me) finally cancel our pre-order after the dealer announcement. Between the reality of having a very distant dealer and the economic delta of today's prices/interest rates/etc vs when the reservations were made, they could be in for a decent reduction in orders.

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anand said:

FWIW, and I know I've mentioned this before, but through the hundreds of people I had in my vehicles during the PTO2 tour and hundreds more I chatted with all over the country at events, the vast majority (75% or greater) were expecting a substantially higher price point than what was announced (myself included)

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anand said:

Generalized (not so broad) dealer locations have been available for months, and the pricing is the pricing. Lots has changed in the world since the very first "mentions" of a price were whispered.

I don't think many people made it through the pre-order phase who aren't quite intent on purchasing; if they were questionable about it, why go through with the pre-order?

The conversion rates from reservation to pre-order were pretty much on par with expectations, while the non-reservation pre-order numbers were higher than expected; taking those into consideration I'm pretty confident that any "drop off" at this point forward is either already accounted for or will only serve to help dealers move "in-stock" units to the masses when people start seeing Grenadiers on the road and go "what is that and where can I get one"

FWIW, and I know I've mentioned this before, but through the hundreds of people I had in my vehicles during the PTO2 tour and hundreds more I chatted with all over the country at events, the vast majority (75% or greater) were expecting a substantially higher price point than what was announced (myself included)

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anand said:

Generalized (not so broad) dealer locations have been available for months, and the pricing is the pricing. Lots has changed in the world since the very first "mentions" of a price were whispered.

I don't think many people made it through the pre-order phase who aren't quite intent on purchasing; if they were questionable about it, why go through with the pre-order?

The conversion rates from reservation to pre-order were pretty much on par with expectations, while the non-reservation pre-order numbers were higher than expected; taking those into consideration I'm pretty confident that any "drop off" at this point forward is either already accounted for or will only serve to help dealers move "in-stock" units to the masses when people start seeing Grenadiers on the road and go "what is that and where can I get one"

FWIW, and I know I've mentioned this before, but through the hundreds of people I had in my vehicles during the PTO2 tour and hundreds more I chatted with all over the country at events, the vast majority (75% or greater) were expecting a substantially higher price point than what was announced (myself included)

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Ichabod said:

I'll be interested to see how many of us (including potentially me) finally cancel our pre-order after the dealer announcement. Between the reality of having a very distant dealer and the economic delta of today's prices/interest rates/etc vs when the reservations were made, they could be in for a decent reduction in orders.

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LC0013 said:

Frankly, I find that hard to believe as most of the individuals on the events we went to did not expect the price that we were eventually greeted with.

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Ichabod said:

I'll be interested to see how many of us (including potentially me) finally cancel our pre-order after the dealer announcement. Between the reality of having a very distant dealer and the economic delta of today's prices/interest rates/etc vs when the reservations were made, they could be in for a decent reduction in orders.

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YellowLab said:

The distance of the dealer could drive me to a new Range Rover. Driving over an hour each way to a dealership gives me little to get excited about given the pure hell of LA driving. I've been following this car with great interest since announced almost 3 years ago and reserved my IG the day those were opened in 2021. I'm passionate about the car - and even ordered all the goodies I wanted. But when I will not drive or pick up anyone - including my wife - to LAX allows you to gauge my traffic temperament. We'll see - today might just be a bad Monday...

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Krabby said:

MAINLINEHello all - if you’ve placed your preorder you were given a default dealer who I believe will be geographically closest to you. I thought we could look at this since we don’t actually know where they’ll be.

I am along the coast of NJ and the distance from my house to Philly is about 55 miles and to NYC about 90.

What about others?


Throwing a total GUESS - BMW Mainline / New Country Auto Group LINK
5 States/25 Locations- could cover whole NE

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Jeffrey said:

Pay them enough to have it delivered. Why stop now!

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Ichabod said:

Hehehe, it's not the delivery, it's paying to get it back and forth for software updates, leaking seals, bings and bongs, steering problems, install of not-yet-delivered accessories, etc etc etc. I'm one of the ones staring down a 10 hour round trip,which, lets be honest, is completely moronic to even consider dealing with. Would be nice to have a mobile tech solution, but I don't think they have the resources to pull that off. Friends with Rivians and Teslas get that treatment, but even then they've had to take it in for stuff the mobile tech can't do.

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