You made your $99 deposit at 12:40:26 p.m. (Pacific time) on the 1173rd day after Jan 1, 2004 (or March 19th). Presumably, you've already gotten your e-mail to finalize your selections.
Forget the 350 per week. This would mean that reservations take lately would get their email in late 2009.
well, 350/week is 1400 per month is 16,000 year - so you're right it would take 2 years to reach 3200. Of course, accouting for attrition, and a bump in production, maybe it'll be early 2009 instead!
well, 350/week is 1400 per month is 16,000 year - so you're right it would take 2 years to reach 3200. Of course, accounting for attrition, and a bump in production, maybe it'll be early 2009 instead!
Or you could look at it this way. Adding the ten weeks in 2007 to the 52 weeks of 2008 and keeping the same rate of confirmations, you get almost 22,000 confirmations - just about the estimated production. I don't think attrition will be significant during this process. Most of the drop-outs will be at the point when the dealer wants some money.
dunno....at the point the dealer wants money will probably be either when the order goes to the factory (deposit) or when it arrives (full payment). Having come that close, I certainly wouldn't cancel. I suspect 6 - 8 months from now, when some of us still haven't even confirmed, many of these people would have been tired of waiting, moved on and gotten other cars and so won't confirm their reservations.
unfortunately "breaking" the secret code on the reservation number tells us little about our spot on line and our potential delivery date
?? :-(
I would say that after receiving your user name and password to the MY Smart Fortwo Configurator, the ball goes into the dealers court and it doesn't get thrown out to you until they are established and ready to have a car for you to buy....built and ready to run and I think it is as simple as that....no secrecy about it. It's just the waiting that sucks!!
well, 350/week is 1400 per month is 16,000 year - so you're right it would take 2 years to reach 3200. Of course, accouting for attrition, and a bump in production, maybe it'll be early 2009 instead!
Most of the drop-outs will be at the point when the dealer wants some money.
Aye, and there's the rub. I suspect most will NOT drop out having come that far unless the dealer requires some onerous fees, add-ons, or prevailing market penalties. If the dealer says "Its $1000 over what PAG advertised, take it or leave it." would you pay? How about $2000? I bought my MINI from the dealer in Salt Lake at MSRP because the local dealer wanted $2500 over MSRP just to say hello. I only hope it doesn't come to this kind of decision.
Aye, and there's the rub. I suspect most will NOT drop out having come that far unless the dealer requires some onerous fees, add-ons, or prevailing market penalties.
Per every smart rep I have spoken to at the test drives and at the smart house there will be no "dealer mark-up" allowed by Penske.
All they have have to do is dress the car up with some junk you don't want and overprice it- that is what Mini and Miata dealers did in NJ and say the car itself is indeed at list price but we only have these cars in stock with these addons- do you want it or not?
Sure hope it doesn't happen that way but we will not know until we buy, will we?
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