Having no idea what "ford's" version of "allocation" and "order" is I cannot speak to how your deal may have gone with them. In the case of the Challenger the "allocation" is the actual customer "orders". When Dodge "allocated" the Challengers they only "allocated" units to specific customer orders... not to the "dealers" themselves. In the case of the ford deal we might be comparing two different types of "allocation" where your "special order" may have been different and apart from the dealer's allocated "stock" units and possibly the dealer ran out of "total allocated" units before filling your "special order".

Just a thought on how such a deal with ford might have been different...