There does appear to be a few popping up now. Do we know how many dealers there are in the UK? I’m assuming that each one has at most 2 demo cars and I’m sure I read that if they’re being used for demos then they can’t be resold for 90 days so we shouldn’t be seeming these come through as retail as yet. The vehicle carriers presumably try and leave with a full consignment and that might be on a first come first served basis, so a few ZS’s could ‘sneak’ on and be arriving each week.
Approximately 130 dealers in the U.K. at present I believe, all likely to have two demo cars each.
My local dealer received one Trophy connect in blue and a SE in solid white.
The Trophy IConnect was put out for demo straight away, the white SE went into the show room.
My guess is that the white one will have been sold on to a customer.
Why register two cars as demo models ?.
I know with VW they are not allowed to move on their demo cars in less than 90 days.
I bought one once and had to wait for the remainder of the time to pass, until I could collect the car.
I don’t think the same applies at MG though.
Dealers appear to be able to sell on these “stock” cars at their own convenience.
Does this explain why some customers are getting their cars early ?.
The large and popular dealerships will have a LOT of cars already ordered.
Supplying all of these cars to customers is going to take some time.
If you ordered with a smaller dealership, it maybe possible that could get your car a little earlier maybe ??.
In the past, dealers where give a “Allocation” of different models that they where allowed to order on a monthly basis.
Dealers would take orders for cars that they did not have allocations for, but would not tell the customer at the time of placing the order.
I once found myself ringing around dealerships asking directly if they had any allocations for a certain model I wanted at the time.
When we placed the order, we where told there would be a 90 day wait.
90 days later, I got to find out that the dealership was still waiting for an allocation slot for the car !.
We where finally offered a cancelled order that had arrived 6 months after we placed the original order.