New Car Delivery Delays

[goodlife]

I'm trying to oder a new car at the moment and Mercedes/BMW/Audi are all giving delivery times of "at least 6 months", stating that manufacturing is slowed due to delays in obtaining components from Japan - post tsunami.

Anyone else had this issue?

[goodlife]

davidjpowell said:

I believe that you are currently not able to order a Mercedes with the basic radio package due to this. You can order with Comand (SatNav), but they are making people pay for it...

This is exactly what I was told as well. But they were doing a deal on the Command Sat Nav.

[goodlife]

Deva Link said:

Yet I asked a PHer who lives in France and delivery delays are long there too.

I posted the original question... and live in France. It's seem to be 6 months minimum delay everywhere in the world.

I sat with the Mercedes local dealer as he opened up the French build pipeline on his PC. Every car for the next 5 months was allocated to a customer. What happened to the good old days when dealers were pre-ordering popular spec cars like crazy to hit their incentives? Seems to have gone.

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tomw2000 said:

Re. OP: just pay more to jump to queue or buy 'nearly new'?

I'm a 'user chooser' as it will be a company car purchased by a 3rd party leasing company, so not possible unfortunately.
Are there any brands without massive delays when buying new?