I don’t know if this is true but, he says that he has 15 orders pending on the system he has no control over allocation of these, it is all done by Hyundai,
Hyundai dealers don’t work on a agency basis, as the likes of Skoda who dealers are act as an agency model only for BEV’s.
Hyundai in the UK anyway, allocates cars to dealers rather than directly to customers. The allocation process is based on like’s sales volume and demand for each dealer. The dealer manages the distribution of cars and are able to allocate one thats a factory order, part built, on the ship, at the docks or in the dealer’s group stock, as long as no other dealer has sold it etc.
A carrier ship can carry from 2,500 upto around 8,000 cars, There is somewhere around 170 Hyundai dealerships in the UK. If every dealer had 15 i5’s on order thats 2,550 however, I believe the 5 is made in Ulsan S Korea rather than Europe but by Hyundai standards thats not a huge task given they have their own shipping!
I bet Hyundai do as they did with the new Tucson recently and create a stock pile.