Its three week holiday time in Yeti land and my build date has disappeared off the Skoda UK system.

Notice that this time last year Johann was in the same situation and talking about right hand drive week.

Must admit the time taken for deliveries is bordering on the ridiculous and would be unacceptable in normal business trading. We are not talking about a new jet fighter!!

Tesco can build and fit out a new store in less than 6 months and the German company Huff House can build one in 5 days!

It only took God 7 days to create our world!

Anyway I am sure it will be worth the wait but I am getting a bit stalled as we say in Yorkshire.

We must be a pretty doughty lot us Yeti dreamers.

Awh! Bless! Yes my car came in week 42 with a whole host of other UK Yetis also having been built that same week! Yorkie will be on your door and with 10,000 miles on the clock before you know it!!!

The german house can go up in 5 days, but it will have been odrered many months before to get in the build queue, will have had to be designed, and then built in the factory . The foundations and preparations could also take a couple of months, let alone the planning consent. Similarly the tesco store will have been in planning for at least 2 years before getting to site.

The problem with cars is that the manufacturers can no longer afford to build speculatively and store in fields for buyers. The bright side though is that you have picked the spec you want to exactly suit you and it will be as near mint from the factory as possible, not with rusty brakes having stood in a flooded field for 2 years!

I saw a Grand Designs programme once where they built a Huf House. If you have not seen it then try to look out for it as a repeat. Staggering and an example of why German engineering and workers have trashed the British. (Don't bite back at me until you have seen the programme!)I can't remember exactly the timescale but I don't remember them waiting long after the foundations were put in before the actual construction took place. The house comes flat packed and ready built to order so you are quite right in that there is preparation time. Once there though they are truly impressive. A digression but seriously, look out for that programme.

I saw the programme. Fantastic. The couple went to the factory in Germany months before and specced the house exactly as they wanted it, even down to the position of every electric socket!. IIRC their house was delivered and fully erected in a week and they had moved in only about a month from the pouring of the foundations!

I'm not going to shoot ya down in flames.

If I had the money I would definitely have one built.

As an architect I can tell you I HATE those Huf Houses. They all look like Swiss challets from the moon in the UK. Horrid things. Might be quick and easy to build but they do not look right in the UK. Totally out of keeping with their context here. It is bad enough that all our houses look like IKEA catalogues on the inside but to also have them all look like the exact same flat packed house on the outside?!!?! Urgh...

OK back OT: TP listed somewhere how long it takes to build a Yeti. I'd say less than a day. So the problem is not in how quickly they can build ONE Yeti. The problem is in how many other people ordered Yetis BEFORE you! There's the rub and little we can do about it apart from Å koda building two more Yeti factories! Which they won't.

And it isn't just Skoda that now has these "delays" between ordering and collection. I am hearing stories of Peugeot with 20 weeks, Nissan with +20 weeks, and BMW with 40 (!!!) weeks.

20 weeks for a Peugeot or Nissan? Having owned both in the past I wouldn't wait 20 minutes!