Generally speaking, the car will be registered as soon as it arrives at the dealership, so you have no control in the matter whatever, it’s purely date dependent
It doesn’t have to be registered immediately. My X1 is currently due to be delivered end July and the dealer said that I could wait until Sep 1st if I wanted the 71 reg. If it was a private car I would do so, as it will affect resale value, but as it’s a lease car and I’m keen to get rid of our VW Tiguan now I will take it ASAP.
Carla – the standard lead time for the X1 is around 5 months. If the dealer implied less they were probably just guessing or blagging to get the order. We ordered in the last week of March and were told to expect September delivery, but the dealer managed to nab a cancelled order slot from another dealership which brought it forward to end July. It then got pushed back back to Sep but the dealer spoke to BMW operations and they agreed to bump it back into production around now. Will believe it when I get it though as almost all manufacturers are experiencing delays due to the semiconductor chip shortage.