Good info on the last call for 2025 ordering.
I’m curious, for those who order in the last couple of weeks, do those orders ever get converted to 2026 MY if the order stalls for a prolonged period? It seems orders have been moving quicker as of late, but for the random order that sits for a few months before production, will it still be tagged as a 2025?
99% no, they will remain as ordered.
EVERY year on EVERY trim there is a point where they stop taking orders for model year A.
Therefore there is always a time when you have a order in system for model year A while the books are closed, and B may or may not be open yet.
Ordering for A and B do not overlap, and production for A and B do not overlap, but ordering for B will most likely begin while they're still finishing up production for A. Also model year B usually has a "containment" period where they hold up a certain # of vehicles before releasing, further slimming the chances of an overlap of delivery A vs B
The only time I have seen model year A convert to model year B has been when a truck from A was damaged in transit or production WAY later in process, and they had to scrap and start over, and knew they couldn't get it in before their own self-imposed cutoff and changeover. I'm thinking of one wrangler 392 that literally got hit by a tornado while in a railyard.
The only other time was the 2023 TRXs where they took the last 18 orders we had and converted them to 2024s but that was very abnormal because they had opened and closed the books like five times, and clearly miscalculated. That issue had MUCH more to do with CAFE standards within the model year which is no longer really an issue, especially not on RHO.
Remember also that when the RHO first opened, as with EVERY vehicle, there are ZERO rebates available at the outset. The primary purpose of rebates, the dark truth, is to assist dealers in getting vehicles OFF their lot, to further encourage them to order NEW vehicles. This is why the rebates on lower volume REBEL is less than the higher volume LARAMIE even where pricing is very similar. Therefore, when there are 2025 RHO's on the lots nationally in groundstock, the 2026s will likely not have rebates .... the emphasis will continue to be on moving off the 2025s. That's not to say it's impossible to have rebates on 2026s, but apples to apples the 2025 will have more rebates than a 2026 on the same time in the space-time-continuum.
