03-06-2014, 12:14 PM | #1 |
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BMW NA has made only 149 F8X M cars available for April production among its 339 U.S. dealerships. These cars are scheduled to be delivered in June. The entire U.S. Eastern Region has only 38 of those April production slots.
I learned this through a long and detailed conversation with my SA minutes ago while he was camped on his computer. I know, he's just a SA, but he had a very good command of the topic, and I'm convinced that his information was good.
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03-06-2014, 12:17 PM | #2 |
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Correction.. There are 148 F8X M cars available.. because I have mine locked in so the rest of the clowns can fight over the remaining 148.
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03-06-2014, 01:38 PM | #3 |
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When you say M cars you are talking M3 and M4 right (not including M5, M6, X6M)?
I'll assume that's what you meant. Either way, wow, that's a lot fewer than I had figured awhile back. I was originally thinking one of each per dealership per month which would put us at about 6800 cars for the year if you include launch cars. Later I revised that down to .75 of each per dealership per month which would be 5100 cars. Your number would mean the total for the year is tracking at merely 1500 cars for 2014 if we assume it holds. However, I have to believe it will actually grow steadily for following months. That said, its slim pickings for these early days. Now, for the other big question, anyone know how many launch cars were allocated? And will those all be built this month? |
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03-06-2014, 02:40 PM | #5 |
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I know from two dealers I am working with that Launch Cars are being built in March with some carryover into early April. My one dealer who is a high volume dealer received two M3s and two M4s while other Dealer only got one Launch Car.
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03-06-2014, 02:46 PM | #7 |
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That sounds right.. My dealer only had one M4 and no M3's..
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(NOTE: does not include Launch car allocations) What we are waiting on now is for production slots to be assigned to those cars which will tell dealer which week the car will be built and when the car can be allocated to a customer with an assigned production number. I just talked with my dealer 1 hour ago and this information is still not available. |
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Ah, got it. Just how many cars they get for the entire model year. Thanks. Last edited by Sir Loin; 03-06-2014 at 03:03 PM.. |
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Don't we already have a rough estimate of production dates from Jason...
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Are you one of the group? Has your car or whoever you know been assigned a production number? Have travel arrangements been confirmed and booked? Just trying to get an Idea if there will be any Welt Deliveries in June at all. thanks
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February: Dealers receive allocations and order bank opens for submission of customer orders (after Pricing-Ordering Guides are released). which makes me question if the planned timeline is valid anymore as a result of whatever has caused delays. In addition no Configuration tool yet. |
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It does seem like things are unfolding more slowly in the USA than I would have expected, but that is partially based on impatience of buyers and lack of hard info from BMW. |
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