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- Thread starter CdnX
- Start date
16plus4v1
Ready to race!
- Location
- Rossland, BC
Congrats, TR is a great colour.
Well just spoke with the dealer, the 6 week delivery is out the door and he is now saying end of Sept or mid Oct. He is going to see if the exact car is available at another dealer but it seems unlikely. While we are in no rush to replace our current car this is really disappointing. Big fail on VoNA part on rolling out this car.
That's not VoNA's fault. It's your dealership. My dealer was able to secure one with the same spec as yours about a month ago and I received mine last week.
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I wonder if it is the dealer. They just parrot what they are being told, 6-8 weeks wasn't the sales guy trying to close a deal.If it was it's a crappy approach and he could have said 4-6 weeks. Meh..I could be wrong but it seems that in the rush to bring this car to market the only thing that got to market was the fanfare and demo cars. Also seems they did a piss poor job with their production planning, which shouldn't be rocket science at this stage for VW. Now it may be that Canada being a market smaller then say California it just isn't as high a priority to get the cars to market here as it is elsewhere.
I'm disappointed but as I said not in a panic to replace my wife's current car. What I want is a little consideration for hurting my feelings
I was told up to 6 weeks when i ordered mine in mid-June, but they swapped with a dealer in Kingston (trucked in, not driven!) and I got mine Monday. Myers VW in Kanata just received a TR on their lot, but I didn't look close enough to see how it was configured. Over 5000 have already been produced for NA based on VIN numbers I've seen. I bet it comes in sooner than that. Here's hoping for you!
Thanks for the positive sentiment! Myers is going to see if a car with our option choices exists elsewhere in NA and ship it in if possible. Not wanting leather doesn't seem to be the norm so it may be a wait for us. I am only mildly torqued about the long wait and would have been less so if they (dealer or VW) had been more upfront about it.
Myers did have 2 or 3 demos there. TR (6sp), Grey (auto & leather) and a white one.
Us too, Markus has been quite good to deal with. I particularly like that he understood that this will be my wife's car and spoke almost exclusively to her rather than default to me.
I am curious if a car delivered in Sept/Oct will have the collision warning radar? Might lower insurance some as it does in other countries.
According to what I have read, the forward collision warning is part of the Technology package for cars built after June 30. It wasn't a deal maker/breaker for me, but I'm sure it's a "nice to have". Markus believes it will manifest as that big square cutout in the lower grille, but it could just be those dots in the bumper (see picture).
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There had been a number of incidences where front collision system malfunctioned in Europe. For example, there was once an incidence where the driver was on the highway and Frontcollision system brought the car to a complete stop randomly.
If anything NoVW wants to perfect the system before actually implementing it - this I think is crucial.
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