To take your car analogy further, the dealer offered to refund your purchase price up until the time they actually started to manufacture your car. So... if you "grin an bear it" you did it of your own volition, since you could easily have walked away at any time. Yes, BFL was late. I've apologized for that numerous times. But the fact of the matter is, people could have elected to get a refund at any time up until we started to manufacture products in bulk and started to spend the pre-order money on product manufacturing.
Doesn't matter. You have to refund until you ship. Too bad your customers can't manage to organize and sue you.
You neglected to mention the fact that nothing illegal has transpired, either... but, we all know you can't tell the truth and are a consumate liar and troll, so that's not really surprising that you'd leave a relevant fact like that out.
Except for the illegal denial of refunds prior to shipping.