Oh dear. Our new private car can’t come soon enough. I’m done with all this anti-Motability hatred and the stigma of having a Motability car
@glos-guy Have you got a build or delivery date for your X5 yet? My X6 is due to arrive at the dealership on a transporter today. Albeit, as agreed, they are not registering/pdi’ing it yet as I don’t want to collect it until I get back from the USA towards the end of next month (No point in having it sat taxed and insured in one of the farm sheds for six weeks)! It might as well be stored it their compound untaxed and at the dealership’s risk should anything untoward occur. I have the Grenadier to truck around in so there is no rush – great things are worth waiting for!
It’s been a bit frustrating @BigDave as deciding on the M60i has resulted in a much longer wait. Apparently, because it has a BMW M division engine (and probably also because it’s right hand drive, whereas 99% of V8s will be left hand drive), BMW Munich have to ‘slot’ it in to the regular production run. This has given me a build date in June and a delivery date of the last week of July.
Conversely, we are about to go and view today the 40d that is in our exact spec (which they configured for me before I decided on which engine to go for) as it was already in their order schedule but could still be reconfigured. So annoyingly, if I’d decided on the 40d I’d be taking delivery this week!
Interesting about your delaying registration. I said to the dealer that if it was going to take until August I would want to delay registration until 1st Sep to get the 76 plate, but they are saying that they have a strict policy that you have to take delivery within 10 days. I haven’t gone into battle on that (yet) as they have been brilliant and I am still hoping that my build date may move forward.