Lead time on new vehicles

[Edd Beesley]

Just wanted to share my experience and see if anyone has any insight on lead times or is tracking ships bringing cars.

I ordered from Arval on December 6th, quoted Feb 29th for delivery, which has today been updated to March 30th.What's everyone else experiencing?

 

[joelhuds]

Just ordered a Trophy from a main dealer and been quoted 31st March. Perhaps that's when a bulk of them are due over (I've no idea how it works - just speculating. Appreciate you ordered yours back in Dec)

 

[pecker]

I ordered and got mine within a week from Perry’s, they have a few more in stock as well all models.

 

[Rolfe]

I got mine in five days last April, but it was pure luck that the dealer had exactly the car I wanted in stock.

 

[salty]

Dealers have got Brand new cars, in stock now, obviously depends on what spec and colour you want, but you could drop on just the one you want, with a bit of luck.

 

[DewiSant]

Just wanted to share my experience and see if anyone has any insight on lead times or is tracking ships bringing cars.

I ordered from Arval on December 6th, quoted Feb 29th for delivery, which has today been updated to March 30th.What's everyone else experiencing?

Similar to me, I ordered from Arval beginning of December and like you was quoted 29th Feb and it was delivered yesterday.

 

[Burgo]

Two weeks in Spain for the equivalent of a Trophy (Luxury) in red.

 

[Ian Key]

Depends if they are risking going through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. If not it's adding 10 to 12 days (4000 miles) to go round the Cape of Good Hope

 

[Koops]

Depends if they are risking going through the Red Sea and Suez Canal. If not it's adding 10 to 12 days (4000 miles) to go round the Cape of Good Hope

Houthi’s aren’t targeting Chinese vessels

 

[Tuareg]

Vehicles will be shipped on various national carriers depending on capacity availability and cost of shipping. Chinese products aren't limited to being shipped on Chinese carriers.

 

[Rolfe]

The ship names people were talking about last year were all the names of operas. Bohème, Tannhäuser and so on. Didn't sound very Chinese!

 

[Jonknee]

Ordered late October via Tusker. Status changed to ‘released from factory’ mid November. Estimated delivery in late January which surprised me a bit as others were being delivered quite quickly. This has slipped to currently late March. My own car has now required a service, MOT, tax, insurance and needs four tyres, all of which I had hoped to avoid, so I am considering running it for another 12 months and cancelling the order. All the niggles highlighted on the forum and the many cars failing to charge CCU issue are also giving me doubts plus used car values have fallen so my car is not worth quite as much to offset the lease costs. Will give it some thought.

 

[dsimpkins]

I ordered in December 2022, and it was an April delivery (3rd week) so you're doing well for February or March.

 

[stevegus]

The ship names people were talking about last year were all the names of operas. Bohème, Tannhäuser and so on. Didn't sound very Chinese!

Mine came over on the Galaxy Ace which doesnt sound musical

 

[M4cer]

Ordered mid December delivered 2 Feb after a bit of pestering with Tusker

 

[siteguru]

Mine came over on the Galaxy Ace which doesnt sound musical

Wasn't that a Samsung phone model? ?

 

[dsimpkins]

Wasn't that a Samsung phone model? ?

Wasn't that a film? Oh no, that was Galaxy Quest.

 

[Ian Key]

Mmmm Chocolate mmmm ?
Oh! Sorry you weren't discussing chocolate ?

 

[JonnyG]

I know the OP is leasing their car and has to go through the lease ordering process, but the title of this thread could be looked at by private buyers too on PCP etc.

For private buyers there are in fact plenty of new and nearly new MG4's in stock now around the country :-

Welcome to MG

Tracing its history back to 1924, MG is the iconic motoring brand, famous for building sporty, exciting and value-for-money cars which are always fun to drive.

www.mg.co.uk

 

[salty]

I know the OP is leasing their car and has to go through the lease ordering process, but the title of this thread could be looked at by private buyers too on PCP etc.

For private buyers there are in fact plenty of new and nearly new MG4's in stock now around the country :-

Welcome to MG

Tracing its history back to 1924, MG is the iconic motoring brand, famous for building sporty, exciting and value-for-money cars which are always fun to drive.

www.mg.co.uk

Agreed, you can literally walk into a lot of MG dealers and get one, immediately.
X Powers included. ??