When does twelve weeks seem like tomorrow?
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When does twelve weeks seem like tomorrow?
When you hear the clubman you're trying to order might be available in, say, 8 months...
Regardless, we put down the deposit etc. It's sort of surreal. Hard to feel it's real when it's months before a waitlist even turns into a proper order. Feels about as solid as asking the mall Santa for a pony. Or, I guess, with delivery suspected in March, maybe more like asking the Easter Bunny for a solid white-chocolate, life-size mini.
I'm looking on the bright side, though. Given I'm in my fifties, it's a good incentive to eat right and exercise, to increase the odds I'll live long enough to take delivery!
I tried to get the list of names of the people ahead of me so I could, uh, erm, have a word with them, but it was no-go. So I promised the MA that I'd call once a month to change every line of my order until he slipped me in early to stop the madness. I might have to step that up to weekly.
Regardless, we put down the deposit etc. It's sort of surreal. Hard to feel it's real when it's months before a waitlist even turns into a proper order. Feels about as solid as asking the mall Santa for a pony. Or, I guess, with delivery suspected in March, maybe more like asking the Easter Bunny for a solid white-chocolate, life-size mini.
I'm looking on the bright side, though. Given I'm in my fifties, it's a good incentive to eat right and exercise, to increase the odds I'll live long enough to take delivery!
I tried to get the list of names of the people ahead of me so I could, uh, erm, have a word with them, but it was no-go. So I promised the MA that I'd call once a month to change every line of my order until he slipped me in early to stop the madness. I might have to step that up to weekly.
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Looking forward to pics in your gallery. This week's configuration is PW and includes the chrome line exterior, oak, and UJ scuttles. There's a PW/B MC in our neighborhood and that white is deluxe. I'd love a close-up of the UJ against the PW. Ditto the chrome exterior bits. My wife is skeptical of my judgment. (insert joke here)
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8 months is a really long time to wait. I'm having a hard time waiting another week to pick ours up. It seems that the Pac NW is the longest wait in the nation (Portland and Seattle) - but didn't I read somewhere that the Seattle area was going to have another dealer soon? Don't know when/if that will happen, but it might be an option. Also, the East Coast dealers seem to either have a larger allotment or don't sell as many cars, because many (MINI?) of them seem to have a much shorter wait time. MINI of the Hamptons advertises here on NAM of immediate production and delivery anywhere in the US for $500 over MSRP (thats including the delivery, although its almost certainly an open truck). Still, it would probably turn that 8 month wait into something closer to 8 weeks...
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Looking forward to pics in your gallery. This week's configuration is PW and includes the chrome line exterior, oak, and UJ scuttles. There's a PW/B MC in our neighborhood and that white is deluxe. I'd love a close-up of the UJ against the PW. Ditto the chrome exterior bits. My wife is skeptical of my judgment. (insert joke here)
Last edited by mwedge; 07-15-2008 at 07:38 PM.
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Q: When does twelve weeks seem like tomorrow?
A: The day of, when just about to arrive at the dealer, and going to see it for the first time - will still seem like forever.
In 02 I waited from July to the end of Dec, just under 6 months - It seemed like it may never arrive.
Good luck,
Nik
A: The day of, when just about to arrive at the dealer, and going to see it for the first time - will still seem like forever.
In 02 I waited from July to the end of Dec, just under 6 months - It seemed like it may never arrive.
Good luck,
Nik
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Looking forward to pics in your gallery. This week's configuration is PW and includes the chrome line exterior, oak, and UJ scuttles. There's a PW/B MC in our neighborhood and that white is deluxe. I'd love a close-up of the UJ against the PW. Ditto the chrome exterior bits. My wife is skeptical of my judgment. (insert joke here)
If you're like me, you'll be 100% sure of a color combo until just before your deadline, then waffle with some other color (for me it was CR). The PW/B was my first choice. Go with your gut, I say.
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By the time its done I will have waited 7 weeks to the day. I suppose that falls in the 6 to 8 week category that they told me when I ordered it. My wife said that I haven't been this annoying since I quit caffine a number of years back. I am picking up my order from Rasmussen on Saturday.
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