I ordered my ( first wave ) ZS EV on the 23rd July 2019 with an estimated delivery of Oct / November 2019.
Decided to sell my car privately towards the end of November 2019.
Updates on delivery promises from the dealer was vague / useless to say the least.
Then completely out of the blue, my car arrived at the dealership, completely out of the blue, two weeks before Christmas 2019.
I deferred delivery until the 6th Jan 2020.
Almost a seven month wait !.
We where lucky enough to be able to use my wife’s small car over this time scale.
If you are locked into a PCP or least plan, then trying to align this against a constantly moving delivery date, is pretty much impossible I would imagine.
Cars are only allocated to each dealer when they have entered into the country I believe.
MG have already stated that they will be forced into raising their prices in January 2022 due to a 600% increase in the cost of shipping !.
On a family day out yesterday, I was chatting with chap who had owned a toy shop for over ten years.
He said that children’s toys prices where going to jump massively next year.
He was quoting items and prices he had been buying for the last three years, where almost trebling in price next year !.
He said :- “Customers will not pay that, I don’t know what I am going to do, I will probably just close up shop”.
It just appears to me that we are now starting to see the true price of the pandemic
and companies are fighting to recover the lost revenue !.