I am going to guess the first wave of 6 speeds are all getting built together, maybe 3-4 weeks worth of production. Then they ride their various boats together. It seems mine and lhoboy's were pretty close for start and finish dates, so maybe the factory does similarly configured cars together in batches.

My time lines are similar to everyone else's, with a late July pick up date, so maybe they will loiter in the UK for much of June before their Atlantic crossing.

Orkney

 

This is not typical for any manufacturers. Often they will send 3-5 like cars down the line at once, but never a consistent stream of vehicles for weeks at a time.

 

Yeah, just random guesses based on orders, when they are being built at Castle Bromwich, and when they are going to show up in the US. For lhoboy and myself, it looks like the car may be complete and not arrive for about 6 weeks.

Care to speculate on the mechanics behind the 6 week lag, Stohlen? Probably can't be any cheesier than mine.

Orkney

 

Shipment time from the plant to your dealership is usually 4 weeks. This is typical for all European assembly plants. As for the remaining two weeks, usually cars hang around the plant for a week after they are built, they go through end of line inspections and testing for quality control purposes, and anything that is noticeably wrong is corrected. 6 weeks isn't a shockingly long time. Don't be surprised if there is a port hold for something too, just like there was with the AWD units.

 

Looks like the Canadian contingent is a couple of weeks behind.
I have a listed build complete date of June 19th.

I'm with bb_sam, hoping for an end of July delivery.

 

Nessie (British Racing Green, v6S Manual) is complete! My VIN ends with 7543. My delivery date is now 7/17!

Orkney

 

Congrats! I can't wait to start hearing reports from manual owners, and hoping you're all thrilled with it. If that's the case, there will, no doubt, be one in my future.

As much as I am blown away by how good the ZF auto is, I very much miss the 3rd pedal.

 

Looks like yours made it down the assembly line before mine. Congrats!

 

Kudos and pre-congratulations gentlemen! (I don't really know how you do it; I surely wouldn't have - indeed, didn't have - the patience to wait).

 

Lucky. Just spoke to my dealer, my delivery date got moved from 7/31/15 to 8/7/15

 

At 6 or 7 weeks out, mine got delayed by a week as well.

 

You'll have it before then. Start tracking it on the WW web site.

 

My salesguy says the factory might be ahead of schedule. My Canadian bound car was scheduled for build the week ending June 12 (next week) but apparently it was started this week. Doubt that will affect the shipping date but even if it arrives a week or two early, I'll be happy.

Another 'silver lining' to the timing of delivery -- incentives/financing deals on the 2016's are said to start in July.

 

Orkney. Please let me know when yours shows up on the WW shipping site. Still no VIN for me yet.

 

Been checking daily, but no luck yet with the WW site. One of my co-workers (in Northampton) offered to drive it down to the port for me as long as I did not care about the mileage...

Orkney

 

I have made several of those offers myself out of Baltimore Harbor.

 

So checking the W&W site here: Vessel Schedules plugging in Southampton as an origin and Baltimore as a destination, shows that the next ship to leave is MV Courage, which Marine Traffic shows as tied up at the pier in Southampton.

As I don't have a VIN to shipping manifest hit, it looks like we have:

MV Tamesis - sailing the 11th
MV Integrity - sailing the 11th
and MV Parsifal - sailing the 16th

As the next candidates.

Orkney

 

It's going to take COURAGE!

 

If you're taking delivery of your baby in Dallas, you're car will be unloaded in BRUNSWICK, GA. (The ship will most likely stop in Baltimore, then Charleston, and finally Brunswick. It will be trucked from Brunswick to Dallas. (...which will take about a week or so, as they transport will have stops along the way to Dallas.)

 

If it doesn't have enough COURAGE, it could also take INTEGRITY, RESOLVE, or FREEDOM....

(I love these ship names!)