Hendrick Acura in Charlotte has assured me that there's no ADM and no forced options (at least for the TEP I managed to reserve online today).
https://www.hendrickacura.com/
I just kept going back to the beginning of the reservation process. I figured if the IT monkeys actually were working on it it would be best to NOT simply refresh the failing page try to submit using the same token ID.
And my reservation is in. Having been in the IT industry for 30yrs I found this maddening. C’mon…this wasn’t Apple going live with new iPhone sales in 2015 and not doing proper load testing for hundreds of thousands of simultaneous requests. AHM probably had a few thousand simultaneous...
Mr. "That's a zonk" said in all his videos from Long Beach, "I think it'll be $48k..." and all of a sudden everyone expected it to magically be priced at $48K. Obviously some random YouTuber isn't the best source of insider information. Regardless, I never really considered the price...