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Re:Carmakers feel chip crisis easing by KerrAvon on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:13AM (#31650130)
Only on some makes and some models. Try doing this with a Japanese car or your average Volkswagen and you’d get nowhere. This apparently used to be more of a thing when American cars ruled the industry — custom orders could be quite profitable — until the Japanese makes came along with severely limited optional equipment as a quality and cost saving measure.
Re:Carmakers feel chip crisis easing by bluGill on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @09:36AM (#31654077)
The dealers lost a lot of sales to sleep on it. They discovered if you put someone into a car that was close (wrong color, not quite the same options) they would happily drive it home and not return it. If you ordered the exact car someone wanted they will often call you the next day saying they changed their mind, cancel the order.
Re:Carmakers feel chip crisis easing by aidenn0 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @01:41AM (#31650276)
The comment I was replying to said "American OEMs" and you could do this fairly recently with both Ford and GM