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Ford has already officially put their dealers on notice for these kind of things.
I don't know if they would follow through but they threatened dealers with direct to consumer sales and loss of franchise for gouging on the F150 Lighting.
Well. This makes the prospect of me being able to buy one slightly higher. >

Just wait for the dealer markup! >

Dealers are close to marking themselves out of a job.  Many of them may have bought themselves some local laws to force car sales through them, but if they push the manufacturers hard enough, they'll just buy themselves a national law to undo all that.