You're not really buying a year old car, the car you buy will be built just a few months before you take delivery. I'm a 1302, reserved on July 26, 2007, still waiting to configure. My DDE says March-May 2009. As I see these posts of people who reserve 7 months AFTER me, already configuring and complaining about the wait and the model, I'll just say what everyone tells me to say: bend over and take it and do so with a smile, we're all on this long long list out of our own choices. We choose where we live, we choose to either stay on the list or go the orphan route, we choose to accept the conditions that this company places on our ability to put down good money on their product. Yes, it's way, way different than any other car buying experience we've had, and yes it's way, way different than the company website and the rhetoric at the road show was giving us. The company website and email response is dismally slow and unresponsive, calls regarding new information from the customer service centers are mostly disappointing. But, we either want the car badly enough to wait for it or we do not. My 2 cents.