Rockjaw
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Finally, the dealership confirmed today a delivery date of 30th August on my LR ZS Trophy. Ordered November 21.Thank goodness for that! Some good news at last! ?
Finally, the dealership confirmed today a delivery date of 30th August on my LR ZS Trophy. Ordered November 21.Thank goodness for that! Some good news at last! ?
Which is a cool story, but...There are plenty of folk on this forum raging on 'Where is MY car as Chorley have been allocated 60 cars?'
There is a very simple answer.
SAIC (MG) build in batches NOT to an order.
VW, Ford, Mercedes all build to an order. The dealer puts the order in and your car is given a slot to be built, and some you can follow it along the production line.
Not so at SAIC!
Re the MG ZS EV range, there are 6 options (forgetting colour) available in the UK.
SE SR, Trophy SR, Trophy Connect SR, SE LR, Trophy LR and Trophy Connect LR.
I have no idea what size a batch is, could be 500, 1000, maybe 2,000 or even 5,000, who knows.
Also we have no idea what the true state of the order book for the UK orders is, as that is commercially sensitive.
Maybe there are 400 orders for the SE SR model, and 500 turn up in the batch destined for the UK.
Therefore MG have 100 SE SR cars going spare, Chorley take 60 of the spare cars.
No person has been usurped and got a car before anybody else, because only 400 SE SR cars were ordered!
Untwist those knickers now!
MG (SAIC) will always try to satisfy the 'exact' order i.e. the colour.
They can't offer you a SE SR when you ordered a SE LR, you would lose your government grant in the first instance. The only thing you can change without penalty is the colour.
What does need to happen is representation from MG UK to SAIC China to build a batch or two of the most popular model be it Trophy LR or Trophy Connect LR.
That of course is dependant on the various chips and wiring looms being available!
Those batches have to integrated into the ROW LHD cars, now we can see why things don't just turn up on our shores!
Mg i.e. SAIC are beginning to understand how European car manufacturing works, a be it slowly!
Tesla have the same problems but seem to manage it better!!
I mean realistically that's only about 151.5 fill ups at that price on a Dacia.They won't have a demand problem forever, particularly with the new prices and no grant.
I won't forget the way they've handled this when choosing my next car...
Dacia Duster, Comfort spec, £16345
MG ZS EV, SE long range, £31495
Even at £2/litre £15150 will buy a lot of petrol.
"only".. that's 75000 miles to break even assuming electricity is free...I mean realistically that's only about 151.5 fill ups at that price on a Dacia.
My Trophy Connect ordered the same day. No sign - not a whiff...I didn't order mine until 9th December 2021 and we got ours end of March. Think some of the bigger dealers seem to get stock quicker than others
I would take with a pinch of salt because my original order (which was placed in November) is one that has been pushed back to 2023 lol but mine is a trophy so might be why it's longer due to the extra compo ends that it has over the SE. Fingers and toes crossed for you though pal.After reading this I called Baylis Gloucester today. Although Jordan is not my sales rep he was the person that answered the phone. I asked if it was true that he had said that all LR orders are now being put back to 2023? he asked my name and then went away and came back and said “No yours is still showing as end of Aug early sept” my order was 7 Jan (LR SE) I’m wondering if they just have a sheet and wrote on it what they’ve told each customer and then refer to it and repeat the same response on every enquiry ??
If I'm honest 151 fill ups doesn't sound that bad, when I'm doing three a month that's only just over 4 years."only".. that's 75000 miles to break even assuming electricity is free..
I ordered mine on the 8th Dec and not a bloody sniff of a new car yet???I didn't order mine until 9th December 2021 and we got ours end of March. Think some of the bigger dealers seem to get stock quicker than others
That's not strictly true, the large batch he was allowed to have by MG were all short range models. He wasn't the only dealer to acquire those SR models as part of that batch either, as my local dealer had some.Why bother asking Miles,...
If you think of it like a new games console being released. People at various shops all over the country put in pre orders, release date comes around and shops get individual allocation and start working through their pre order list. Now someone in one shop might have pre ordered a month before someone in the shop next door who got theirs.What I would like to know is how come some orders that were placed this year are getting delivered way before orders for the same car that was ordered last November or December???
Very well explained ????If you think of it like a new games console being released. People at various shops all over the country put in pre orders, release date comes around and shops get individual allocation and start working through their pre order list. Now someone in one shop might have pre ordered a month before someone in the shop next door who got theirs.
MG aren’t sitting with a list of all uk orders and allocating out by date order list. Cars are rocking up at Portbury and some poor sod has to try to spread out what stock they have randomly got so that there is a relatively even cover across the uk, otherwise, a single dealer in one town could snaffle a boat load if they got their orders in ‘first’ and the rest of the country would be on this forum asking why MG are only supplying 1 dealer! Just got to wait……
But that's exactly how it should be.If you think of it like a new games console being released. People at various shops all over the country put in pre orders, release date comes around and shops get individual allocation and start working through their pre order list. Now someone in one shop might have pre ordered a month before someone in the shop next door who got theirs.
MG aren’t sitting with a list of all uk orders and allocating out by date order list. Cars are rocking up at Portbury and some poor sod has to try to spread out what stock they have randomly got so that there is a relatively even cover across the uk, otherwise, a single dealer in one town could snaffle a boat load if they got their orders in ‘first’ and the rest of the country would be on this forum asking why MG are only supplying 1 dealer! Just got to wait……