Not sure if it’s worth the effort but you could sue the dealership for selling you a car they had no right to sell. They could be forced to sell you a comparable car for the same price.
You could also add your daughter to the title so that the original lessee is the person buying the car…meeting Ford’s requirements.
How could that dealership be that stupid to sell an unsellable car? Like for starters, when you decide to purchase your lease, aren’t you pretty much working with the finance company for the most part? And at lease turn in, doesn’t the dealership have to buy it from the Ford?
Hopefully ford takes care of you for this gross incompetence in some shape or form.
What if I signed a contract to sell your house to my brother. Shouldn’t he get to keep the house?
An out of warranty Focus?!?!? Be thankful that they won’t let you buy it. It’s a total POS with a transmission that is a ticking time bomb
Why do you want to buy a car that’s out of bloody production so bad?
They’re giving you an excellent excuse to get rid of an unreliable car, dump the focus back to ford
There’s this legal concept called “Apparent Authority.” Look it up.
There’s a pretty big difference between signing an agreement to purchase a Ford car off-lease with the dealership you leased it from and signing a contract to sell someone else’s house. Enough that mentioning that as a potential analogy isn’t a good look.
Apparent authority requires the principal, in this case Ford Credit, to have acted in a way that suggests the dealer had authority. The dealership itself can’t legally create apparent authority.
One could certainly go after the dealership for reasonable damages, but that’s different than forcing ford credit to sell their property.
If you let everyone here know what did you end up paying for the Focus-you may get the real answer of a good or bad deal-er-ship 
If you don’t watch it he’s going to make you his prison wife.
Dunno but the big blue oval, the Ford cars all over the place might have suggested that to a reasonable person . . .
Again, to claim apparent authority, the principal would have to acted in a way that suggests the dealer had authority. Neither the dealer nor Ford Mo Co are the principal in this situation.
You’re missing the point like a C student. You think you found this big “Gotcha!” because FOMCO credit is different from the dealer/different from FOMCO. Doesn’t matter. You walked in to a Ford dealership to buy a Ford that was leased from Ford. You signed. They signed.
The buyer has every right to expect the deal is final. I’d bet on the consumer 100 times out of a hundred in this case.
Ya, the dealership, an independent company, signed for property that wasn’t theirs on someone else’s active lease.
You’re going to try to claim that a court is going to force ford financial to take a car that is legally leased by someone else and give it to a 3rd party because the dealership signed a contract to sell the car to someone not even involved in the original, active lease?
Good luck with that.
Yeah, you are in court, you signed a sales agreement with a Ford company that signed a sales agreement, you are paying, but they say they want the car back because Mr Jones was supposed to sign and not Mr Scott.
Sure a judge will make the buyer give the car back. Good luck with that.
The ford dealer isn’t a “ford company”. It’s an independent company. This isn’t a “gotcha” company shell game relationship. It’s an independent 3rd party company that wrote a contract for a vehicle that they didn’t own that still has an active lease with a different person.
That sucks. I had a similar experience with Ally Financial. I just returned the car because it wasn’t worth the cost and effort to hire an attorney to fight it.
Cmon man some people love to fantasize about being a lawyer, why you gotta bust his chops
You’re flogging a dead horse @pony_trekker
Pun intended, I presume? 