What you say is very true - dealers would rather sell you something they have on hand rather than order a vehicle for you. For exactly that reason dealerships will invariably stock only the kind of vehicles that the average customer would be interested in. Case in point: Sometime around 2010 a friend of mine bought a new bare-bones F-250 (2WD, regular cab, manual transmission, crank windows, etc) off a local small-town dealer's lot after it had sat there for over 8 months. He got a bargain on it because the dealer just wanted it to be finally gone and off his books. Think of how much it cost the dealership to carry that truck for that long compared to the high-spec models that move in a matter of days or weeks. It shouldn't be any surprise that dealers avoid stocking the base models because virtually nobody wants them. It just wouldn't be good business for a dealership to stock or for a manufacturer to tie up production capacity catering to a very tiny market with low-margin vehicles when they can sell high-spec, high-margin vehicles instead. It isn't a ripoff or con game - the manufacturers and dealers are just supplying what the overall consumer market is demanding. If there came a time when it was the fancy high-spec vehicles that languished on dealers lots and had to be sold at steep discounts just to move them you'd start seeing more low-spec vehicles being produced and stocked at dealerships. But until that happens don't expect dealers to keep base models on hand for when YT participants come shopping for a pickup!
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