One tells me Ford is not allowing special orders on the 2005 Mustang, and another tells me special orders are no problem and the car will show up 4 to 8 weeks after ordering.
Two others gave me the "oh, the going markup is 5K to 10K over MSRP!" but one was down to 1K after just a few minutes of chatting where I used my "aw, shucks, that excludes little old me" tone. ;-) I can probably get him to MSRP which, to be honest, is fine. I'm at the age where a grand in either direction just isn't worth bothering over. He's also just about walking distance from my house and I like to keep my sales tax local.
Anyone else running into uncoordinated crap at the dealers involving the 05? In this day and age should buying a car be this disorganized?
I plugged my desired specs into autonation.com for some online quotes. We'll see what that reaps. There's also 9 Ford dealers between my home and work I can stop at during the week.