Ah fair enough. I was the Friday of Goodwood, so 9th July.
Have they given you an actual date, as I've just got "August". I've put £5,000 down. £2k at Goodwood and £3k 15/11/21, but yes he said they'd abandoned the 10% deposit, not really sure why (maybe they got enough cash from the amount of orders?)
My phone call went along the lines of your car is on time with no delays with an ETA of June, I’m amongst the first orders as the biggest glut of deposits was during Goodwood.
They will contact me again in late April or early May to discuss payment/finance options as that needs doing 30 days prior to delivery.
Id say a July 9th order is probably gonna be September / October delivery time I think they plan on doing all the Goodwood orders to ensure delivery this year but will then switch production to LHD V6 models to get some cars into other territories as well.
Initial plans were 550 cars a month built but because they already sold so many they will push to make 1100 per month by running 24/7 shifts as they have thousands of orders and the real production reviews or demo cars have not even hit yet.
If Top Gear give a glowing review or better still the car gets TV time with Chris Harris singing it’s praises they’ll get a load more orders again. Those getting cars this year are in a strong position but next year normality should somewhat resume unless they run into a parts supply issue.