2026 allocation

[shbox]

Plenty of resources out there that state this, particularly from the Corvette guys. Here's one. About a minute in he starts discussing order submission and plainly states that a lot of dealers don't believe in submitting orders until they have allocation.

In a common sense world you'd be correct but the GM ordering process is byzantine.

He actually backs up what I am saying. His wording may be a little confusing saying that DOSP is when they "submit" orders, but he also says this is the time they "enter" any orders (allocations) given to them by GM. Meaning they take their list of orders and apply allocations to them.

He also says when you send him your spec, he inputs them into GM Workbench and it enters status 1100 (which means order placed) and is what happens at a dealer if you sit down in front of them.

Dealers must send forecasts to GM for them to determine what the factory is looking at to supply. A dealer, based on their sales history, might include a forecast of potential customer orders, but I find it very unlikely that they would hold a customer's spec and not enter it into GM Workbench until the Thursday release of allocations. That would be taking a big chance and they might have to burn a stock order allocation to fulfill the order.

 

[AdamUCF]

He actually backs up what I am saying. His wording may be a little confusing saying that DOSP is when they "submit" orders, but he also says this is the time they "enter" any orders (allocations) given to them by GM. Meaning they take their list of orders and apply allocations to them.

He also says when you send him your spec, he inputs them into GM Workbench and it enters status 1100 (which means order placed) and is what happens at a dealer if you sit down in front of them.

Dealers must send forecasts to GM for them to determine what the factory is looking at to supply. A dealer, based on their sales history, might include a forecast of potential customer orders, but I find it very unlikely that they would hold a customer's spec and not enter it into GM Workbench until the Thursday release of allocations. That would be taking a big chance and they might have to burn a stock order allocation to fulfill the order.

Dealers have from Thursday til Saturday to submit orders. Then they can still swap or update them through til Tuesday. If Thursday rolls around and they don't have any orders in they still get allocation, they just need to have an order matched to the allocation by Saturday. Besides, they could have 20 orders in and none be buildable due to constraints.

The forecasts are independent of orders being put in and the DOSP process, that's all part of consensus.

Regardless of whether I'm right about allocation with no existing orders or not, dealers routinely do not submit orders to 1100 until they get allocation. I think the main reason (not that I agree with it) is they don't want to get customers hopes up, especially since constraints can make it somewhat meaningless. In addition to the video, I called over 20 dealers in Florida and I'm on several lists without an actual order submitted. There's no hard fast rule that says dealers must put in customer orders in advance. Someone on here found a dealer with an active allocation and got their order in on a Monday and accepted at the same time (I assume the dealer had a stock order in that they swapped out).

 

[shbox]

Whatever works. When cars were extremely hard to get years ago, people on this forum had orders sitting at 1100 at multiple dealers. They took the first one that was able to be fulfilled and canceled the others after. I did that myself with 2 dealers. I had the order number in hand from both places. Personally, I would not be confident if a dealer took my spec and did not input it as an order.

 

[RDATLTE]

I don't believe that is accurate. As I understand it, there has to be an order before an allocation can be given. Allocations are parsed based on the orders in the system at the time. It would make no sense to give a coveted allocation to a dealer that has no order waiting to get one.

I don't believe that is accurate. Allocations are based on previous sales not orders in the system. I doubt that dealer orders for inventory are built prior to receiving an allocation.

 

[ToniCipriani]

Sales guy texted me, said will have an update for me next week. I wonder if it was because I was playing with the chatbot too much and it somehow alerted him, lol.

 

[mrpaw]

My TPW is 7/28. Anyone know timelines or general estimates after that?

My's a 4BW with no carbon, but I was six weeks between build date and delivery to the dealer.

 

[shbox]

I don't believe that is accurate. Allocations are based on previous sales not orders in the system. I doubt that dealer orders for inventory are built prior to receiving an allocation.

I know this , but perhaps my wording on that was confusing or erroneous, now that I read it back, LOL. I will go back and remove the offending sentence.

 

[V-man]

My's a 4BW with no carbon, but I was six weeks between build date and delivery to the dealer.

I’ll take it.

 

[leres]

In my case I first talked to Dustin at Sewell in February 2024. I wanted CF and at that point he had "50-60" waiting for CF. In June, 2024, I got word that I was #26 on the wait list. In December, 2024 I got word that I was in the "top 5" on the list.

In March, 2025 (a Tuesday) Dustin called saying he had an allocation for me. My order status went to 3000 that day. That day I had him make one change (while it was still possible -- CA emissions, perhaps an unnecessary change given the 50 state emissions status).

There were different TPWs projected over the next month, the last was for late May. The car ended up being produced the week before that TPW (perhaps a side effect of how late it was in the MY25 production cycle).

It shipped about two weeks later. Instead of rail, it went via truck (which saved transport time over rail.

The order that ended up being mine was entered into GM workbench in August of 2024. It was "retail stock" (status 1100) order. The day my allocation came up, the order was changed from "retail stock" to "sold order" and the options were changed to match what I wanted. So I think the Sewell approach to ordering is to enter stock orders and change any of them they can to sold orders but in the end they always have have orders in the system to match up with any allocations they get. (High volume dealers never let allocations go unused!)

 

[Kevin0311]

Order placed may 30, accepted june 13, produced week of july 14, delivered to dealer august 7th. 10 weeks total

 

[mrpaw]

First time long time

Got a CT4V BW coming with typhoon, bronze wheels, tan interior, 6MT, and no carbon. Timeline from Sewell to date:

10 April - first contact
21 April - my MY25 order was converted to a MY26 order. at this time I didn't know about changes to pricing or the options list
1 May - we realize that the only changes for the 4BW are the deletion of the special editions
7 May - order accepted for production
21 May - status 3400 with a TPW of 2 June '25
13 June - status 4B00 Bayed Avail to Ship

Now I'm waiting on transport before a hell of a roadtrip to bring it home.

11 July - delivered
7 August - accepted

Dustin at Sewell arranged for PPF and tint to make the break-in road trip home more comfortable. Incredible service.

 

[ToniCipriani]

11 July - delivered
7 August - accepted

Dustin at Sewell arranged for PPF and tint to make the break-in road trip home more comfortable. Incredible service.

I have the same configuration except I went with the base two-tone wheels.

My order just got an allocation today.

 

[fordperfaddict]

11 July - delivered
7 August - accepted

Dustin at Sewell arranged for PPF and tint to make the break-in road trip home more comfortable. Incredible service.

congrats! color looks really good on that car

 

[xnifex]

Neither & yeah I thought so as well. She just says she's waiting.

Well I ended up emailing Dustin last Tuesday, never got a response. I decided to call my sales lady today & was instead answered by the GM dealership or something.

Apparently my sales lady left the dealership. So they transferred me to the Dallas sewell & i was connected to the assistant general manager. He looked my stuff up & found my April order for MY2025, but confirmed there was no MY2026 order placed.

He said it's weird she wasn't responding to my email while she was still there.

So he put my order in over the phone, sent me the order details pdf from workbench & said he'll follow up with Dustin on Monday to get true timelines.

I HAVE AN ORDER NUMBER!

other things i learned from the call were that Sewell has only had 4 ct5 my2026 orders put in & are being built so far & that this week they're only building 15 of them for the nation. He also confirmed carbon fiber is completely constrained & that since mine doesn't have any, I'll be jumping the line by a lot of people.

 

[Hi Ho Silver]

Order placed may 30, accepted june 13, produced week of july 14, delivered to dealer august 7th. 10 weeks total

After my 2025 order rolled into a 2026 it moved into accepted event (3000 I believe ) as soon as the book opened. It was built July 17th and arrived at the dealer Aug 5th by truck (in a box I was told) . That is super fast. My 2023 was built in October 2022 and did not arrive at the dealer mid February 2023. It sat in no where land nearly 4 months. Seems things are moving fast after the order is formally accepted.

 

[ToniCipriani]

Well I ended up emailing Dustin last Tuesday, never got a response. I decided to call my sales lady today & was instead answered by the GM dealership or something.

Apparently my sales lady left the dealership. So they transferred me to the Dallas sewell & i was connected to the assistant general manager. He looked my stuff up & found my April order for MY2025, but confirmed there was no MY2026 order placed.

He said it's weird she wasn't responding to my email while she was still there.

So he put my order in over the phone, sent me the order details pdf from workbench & said he'll follow up with Dustin on Monday to get true timelines.

I HAVE AN ORDER NUMBER!

other things i learned from the call were that Sewell has only had 4 ct5 my2026 orders put in & are being built so far & that this week they're only building 15 of them for the nation. He also confirmed carbon fiber is completely constrained & that since mine doesn't have any, I'll be jumping the line by a lot of people.

Malicious compliance?