Unfair and Deceptive Acts and Practices: 7.5.8 Slow and Non-Delivery of Ordered Cars
A few state UDAP regulations establish standards concerning slow delivery of ordered cars.480 More generally, it may be a UDAP violation to continually stall a consumer and mislead the consumer into believing a car will be delivered when the dealer has no basis for this claim.481 Dealers cannot misrepresent that delivery will be soon when they know this will not happen.482 Nor can a dealer fail to order a model as promised, and then later try to sw