Glos Guy, I have just spoken to our local Volvo “senior sales specialist”. He says he’s not been told Volvo Cars being affected by the chip shortage and would expect to be able to place factory orders. Which is not to say restrictions might happen, of course but there’s nothing at the moment. He will make enquiries.
Semiconductor chips are used in every part of all cars of, course, not just digital dashboards, so it’s all about the resilience of each manufacturers supply chain…
The dealer has been busy selling its demonstrators and tells me he has 10 new XC40’s coming in this week, one of which is a T5 hybrid Inscription Pro which we have first dibs on next Tuesday.