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In response to The New Blackbird and Nutty Gambler on the Thunderbird Collection
New Blackbird said: "A rough estimation of how to calculate what you VIN number will be or when your car will be built is as follows...."
Ok, let's do the actual numbers. At 7 of 26 - my dealer will have only received 25% of his allotment by the end of February - that's not close to 40% - he falls short by 4 cars so far. If I subtract the 3 cars that were added to his original allotment, which was 23 - then he'll only be at 30% of his allotment or, 2 cars short. Since he appears to be falling short in the VIN assignment system, I can't justify calculating my position in his allotment as being a close approximation of my vin#. Your calculations worked because your dealer is falling close to the projected deliveries. It would be nice to hear that my dealer received 4 VIN# before the end of this month but he's only been getting 2 VIN#/month for the last 3 months and I don't forsee that changing this month though it'll have to change sometime in order for him to get all of his allotment.
for Nutty Gambler: approx 4200 cars were delivered by mid November - completing the "first deliveries" (4275 had been built by the end of October according to data on the Automotive News website)
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At the current rate of production, 50% of the cars will have been built by the end of this month, or, if you subtract the first ones from 12500 - 4500 = 8000 of 20500 (25000-4500) which is 40% of the rest of the Thunderbirds left to be built. (I rounded the number of 1st cars up to 4500 to make calc. appear easier)
update - I guess that last paragraph is confusing, I meant that the 8000 number is 40% of what is left to be built of the 20500.
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New Blackbird said: "A rough estimation of how to calculate what you VIN number will be or when your car will be built is as follows...."
Ok, let's do the actual numbers. At 7 of 26 - my dealer will have only received 25% of his allotment by the end of February - that's not close to 40% - he falls short by 4 cars so far. If I subtract the 3 cars that were added to his original allotment, which was 23 - then he'll only be at 30% of his allotment or, 2 cars short. Since he appears to be falling short in the VIN assignment system, I can't justify calculating my position in his allotment as being a close approximation of my vin#. Your calculations worked because your dealer is falling close to the projected deliveries. It would be nice to hear that my dealer received 4 VIN# before the end of this month but he's only been getting 2 VIN#/month for the last 3 months and I don't forsee that changing this month though it'll have to change sometime in order for him to get all of his allotment.
for Nutty Gambler: approx 4200 cars were delivered by mid November - completing the "first deliveries" (4275 had been built by the end of October according to data on the Automotive News website)
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At the current rate of production, 50% of the cars will have been built by the end of this month, or, if you subtract the first ones from 12500 - 4500 = 8000 of 20500 (25000-4500) which is 40% of the rest of the Thunderbirds left to be built. (I rounded the number of 1st cars up to 4500 to make calc. appear easier)
update - I guess that last paragraph is confusing, I meant that the 8000 number is 40% of what is left to be built of the 20500.
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