To be serious, many OEM cases exist for new models that require deposits that end out being held for many months, sometimes years. I made a quick reviews and found nine cases for me, every one of which was an announced vehicle that was not yet in production. Some were mundane (e.g. Honda Accord 1977) some distinctly uncommon (e.g. Morgan +8) but all were, at the time, demanding and getting advance payments, in two cases full payment in advance.Talking about honest, how many of those collected $50k deposits and kept them for years ?
Still, few have managed to maintain such practices over years with Tesla, Ferrari and some exotics the only ones who've seemed to regularly achieve that status.