Are you sure about this? I haven't heard from any of the dealers about their arrangements with Ineos yet.
I don't know who "owns" the vehicles in the dealer lots. Since Ineos doesn't have a large laydown/storage lot in the US, they may have negotiated with the dealers that Ineos maintains ownership of the vehicles until they are actually sold (just guessing). So if that's the case, the dealers are just acting as a warehouse for Ineos and those unsold units don't really cost the dealers anything (other than parking lot space). In that case they don't have the same financial pressure to get rid of inventory that a traditional dealer might have. But again that is pure speculation on my part.
Interestingly (to me), I thought that manufacturers putting limitations on what price a dealer can sell a vehicle for were against anti-trust laws (because there are tons of forum posts where internet experts tell you that), but at least on a Federal level, that is not actually the case.
This FTC article says in relevant part:
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If a manufacturer, on its own, adopts a policy regarding a desired level of prices, the law allows the manufacturer to deal only with retailers who agree to that policy. A manufacturer also may stop dealing with a retailer that does not follow its resale price policy. That is, a manufacturer can implement a dealer policy on a "take it or leave it" basis.
Limitations on how or where a dealer may sell a product (that is, customer or territory restrictions) are generally legal — if they are imposed by a manufacturer acting on its own. These agreements may result in better sales efforts and service in the dealer's assigned area, and, as a result, more competition with other brands."
It seems though that some states might have laws that prohibit this.
