Spoke to my dealer today as I was clearing the last of the AP, and asked about the M Sport and if there would be a delay in swapping an order over (was asking out of curiosity after all the comments I’d read here).
He said that he had had at least 6 customers ask him the same thing and when he contacted BMW he was told that there was no way of telling until the order had been swapped over and it was processed by BMW. He advised that in doing so I would either keep my date of April this year or be pushed right to the back of the queue of those ordering the M Sport. So it was a gamble, in his words.
He didn’t seem as if he was trying to be awkward, he actually seemed to be being very honest and was willing to help me if he could, but I had already decided to keep the Sport.