Scirocco Central

Still waiting for my company roc. Ordered August now due Feb. Colleague at work has just ordered an Audi Q5 and been given a delivery date of Dec 2011! Speaking to my brother in law who is a city banker(yes, still speaking to him), he said that VAG make nothing at the current exchange rate, so they will shift stock in the eurozone and trickle deliveries to UK. Don't Usually trust a banker, but has anyone heard similar?

Who knows.. That's the first reason I've heard that I am buying. It always comes down to money..
I ordered my Scirocco 21st October and was given week 2 as my build week. I just got a call that it is in Finland already.
Other countries get deliveries sooner than promised... Sort of backs it up.

Caput Mortuum wrote:Who knows.. That's the first reason I've heard that I am buying. It always comes down to money..
I ordered my Scirocco 21st October and was given week 2 as my build week. I just got a call that it is in Finland already.
Other countries get deliveries sooner than promised... Sort of backs it up.

Is Finland in the Euro-zone ?

Another factor to consider is the order volume each country has estimated to the factory. Maybe the VW-UK has underestimated the sales response in the UK, so now has a short fall. Other countries have their overall order level suited better to meet demand so they are able to meet individual sales.

C.

RW1 wrote:Another factor to consider is the order volume each country has estimated to the factory. Maybe the VW-UK has underestimated the sales response in the UK, so now has a short fall. Other countries have their overall order level suited better to meet demand so they are able to meet individual sales.

C.

I know there will be many factors at work, but lead time in the UK does seem long for what is, essentially, a mass produced marque. The difficulty sourcing popular Audis from the same stable leads me to consider company policy as an explanation rather than conspiracy theory paranoia. It's not just a case of where to ship the cars. Right-hand drive must be a discrete allocation of factory time. Why interrupt normal production for lower returns?

a mass produced marque.

Scirocco isn't mass production. At 175 units a day, it is low volume.
No different to the Mk1 & Mk2 Scirocco. Max then was 50,000 p.a. for Mk1's, 35,000 p.a. for Mk2's.

Right-hand drive must be a discrete allocation of factory time.

Only because VW-UK has an under estimated or has reached the worldwide market balance envisaged by VW and so it's allocation at the factory is now oversubscribed. Original total production was planned as about 30,000 units per annum. It's close to 50,000 at present and I doubt extra capacity is available cos they have already utilised it raising production to 50,000ish p.a. units.

UK is not the only delivery destination of RHD Sciroccos.

leads me to consider company policy as an explanation rather than conspiracy theory paranoia

Exactly And its been no different for the last 30 years that I can remember since buying new VAG cars. And part of the restrictiveness is to maintain secondhand residuals in the UK.

C.

Could be driving that megane coupe now.....

ZephyR wrote:

Caput Mortuum wrote:Who knows.. That's the first reason I've heard that I am buying. It always comes down to money..
I ordered my Scirocco 21st October and was given week 2 as my build week. I just got a call that it is in Finland already.
Other countries get deliveries sooner than promised... Sort of backs it up.

Is Finland in the Euro-zone ?

Yes, of course. Been 10 years tomorrow.

1. Edit: Ooops.. 9 years tomorrow.

2. Edit: Double oops! 1.1.2009 is the real date, but euro cash was first introduced to us on 1.1.2002. Soz.