Our lease company put down £1500, yes I'm lucky enough to be getting one as a company car.

Me too! We buy our company cars so I could choose what I wanted, it was a no brainer really!

Not wishing the rest of summer away but roll on November!

Me too! We buy our company cars so I could choose what I wanted, it was a no brainer really!

Not wishing the rest of summer away but roll on November!

Wishing away - April to Septermber 6th is taking soooooooooooo long......

Starting to sound like what I was told about paint cycling & toys are correct.

When i was ordering my 500, i really liked the pearlescent white, but was told that the factory only makes a specific amount of this paint twice a year, so my order would have to go into that batch ( order placed april - wanted car late Sept, but next batch of colour would be late Sept, along with all the extras I wanted adding best date they could give was early Nov ). So went for red

Thinking about it, a popular colour with little or no extras would be delivered quicker than say a less popular colour with loads of extras.

White seems to be popular, so the chances are a quicker turn around, again depending on the extras where in the white queue you will be.

Glad I picked Silver & not Yellow

I was told by a dealer today, that if I ordered (very) soon, delivery would be in late November/early December - that was a Candy white vRS hatch with some toys

Glad I picked Silver & not Yellow

why "not yellow"?!?!

yellow is a standard non-metallic color.....just like candy white.

nothing special or different about its prep or painting process, as you would with the popular color white.

with any "pearlescent " paint, the process is different (layers, paint drums, nozzle heads etc etc) - hence these have to b done in seperate batches.

That seems a big deposit. What sort of deposit are others putting down?

Only £200. And I was lucky - my order (with options) was sourced from stock and delivered in under 4 weeks

Ordered 17th April .Rang stealer today , was told car is built and on its way to port, he will ring me when its on ship.

I have expected delivery this week - told delay of 2 weeks, but on boat now they say!!!!! I believe it when I see it!!! I guess in 2 weeks they will say another week, got me by the balls really......

Ordered 17th April .Rang stealer today , was told car is built and on its way to port, he will ring me when its on ship.

ordered 19th June, got an email tuesday to say it rolled off the production line on monday Should be here before the end of sept hopefully if it gets on the boat in time

Went to pick up my free-of-charge Felicia courtesy of Trans City Cars of Walthamstow today ( as I'd already sold my old car-and thay kindly leant me one of their part exchanges until mine arrives ) what great service! They also told me my build week for my race blue vRS has been brought forward from week 48 down to week 42

That seems a big deposit. What sort of deposit are others putting down?

Steve

€0,000

Yup

you read it right

I put down no deposit

ordered 19th June, got an email tuesday to say it rolled off the production line on monday Should be here before the end of sept hopefully if it gets on the boat in time

You were lucky! Ordered a VRS CR DSG hatch with a few extras on 11 th June week 23 build date now week 45 so delivery end of November

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You were lucky! Ordered a VRS CR DSG hatch with a few extras on 11 th June week 23 build date now week 45 so delivery end of November

ouch :( maybe the DSG's are taking longer ?

ouch :( maybe the DSG's are taking longer ?

from wat i've been hearing lately is that the diesels are taking longer.

i ordered (petrol dsg hatch) mine jun 15 - wk 24. was built last week - wk 35.

ouch :( maybe the DSG's are taking longer ?

I ordered my White CR170 manual shift with leather option.. Hoping to have it first week in October :(

sounds like I got lucky then. seems one hell of a lottery as to when they get built after order.

Hi Guys,

I ordered my car on the 5th May & got it on the 4th September.I specified Electric Sunroof(its dark up here a lot of the time) Full size Spare Wheel,MFSW c Paddles & Tyre Pressure Monitor.Believe me it is well worth the wait.Be patient we live in difficult times & the motor trade is not exempt.When your car arrives the long wait pales into insignificance,annoying as it is.

BIG F