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A Ford dealership in Tampa Bay, Florida, accidentally sold a Bronco Sport that it shouldn’t have.
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The car was a demonstration model intended to be on display for four months.
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The customer, Adam Sidoti, was allowed to keep the car after Ford entered.
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When Ford Bronco Sport deliveries started shipping late last year, a Florida dealership made the mistake of selling a demonstration vehicle to a customer and had to ask him to return it.
On December 22, Adam Sidoti negotiated his 2015 Volkswagen Jetta, put in some money and financed a new Bronco Sport compact crossover from a Ford dealership in Tampa Bay, Florida, according to local outlet ABC Action News and via Motor1.
Sidoti told ABC Action News that he “always liked the Ford Bronco”, and that the new Bronco Sport is the most pedestrian version of Ford’s upcoming Bronco models that aims to challenge the Jeep Wrangler and Land Rover Defender. Along with Sidoti’s, Ford sold 5,120 Bronco Sports during the fourth quarter of 2020.
A day later, however, Sidoti received a call from the dealer. I wanted the car back.
“I thought it was a joke,” he told the news agency.
It turns out that the dealer had mistakenly sold a display model to Sidoti. A shuttle followed. Sidoti refused to return the car. Then ABC Action News reporter Jackie Callaway contacted Ford to see what was going on.
A Ford spokesman said the automaker had originally shipped that specific Bronco Sport to the Tampa Bay dealership as a demonstration vehicle, where it would be on display for four months before it was sold.
But it all worked out in the end. On December 29, Ford told ABC Action News that, as soon as he heard about Sidoti’s situation, he resolved things and Sidoti was allowed to keep his car.
The Ford spokesman told Callaway dealers that they sell display models and then ordering them back is a very rare occurrence. So, if you are also buying a Bronco Sport, you need not worry – but you can read our review here.
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