I just pulled out the shotgun and gave the broker both barrels in a structured email. Low and behold I’ve been sent my SLI number. I’ll report back on what Cupra confirm.
In the meantime my broker gave me an interesting bit of background to share with you all below.
“There are a few factors which are causing delays and lack of information from the manufacturer.
The first is Cupra decided not long after the launch of the
Formentor that they were going to implement a model year change which happens with every manufacturer at this stage of the year as they tool up for 2022 production. When this happens, they essentially close the doors for 2021 production and all the orders in the order bank carry over into the 2022 model year because the factory can’t produce two model years of the same car at the same time it’s just physically impossible. What happens then is the build weeks get pushed right to the back of the year until they can slot them all back in order of when they were originally going into build and this takes a bit of time to do so it’s not uncommon for us to see build slots go from September to December and then within a matter of weeks they’ve come back to where they were again.
The second big issue all manufacturers have come up against is the worldwide shortage of semi-conductors. If you know nothing of what a semi-conductor is type in “semi-conductor shortage” into Google and the first 4 pages and beyond are all different news stories relating to the problems not just the car industry but the electronics industry as a whole is facing because there’s a worldwide shortage of microchips. This has played a big part in delays in the motor industry because without the micro-chips they can’t build cars and without the factory’s knowing when the chips are coming, they can’t tell us when the cars are getting built. It's as serious as if we ran out of wheels, without wheels they can’t build cars. This is a
problem facing every single car manufacturer in the world and not just a select few. It’s also affecting manufacturers like Sony, Apple, Samsung, you name it, anything with a chip in it is affected. The good news is although there’s delays with current orders, the pricing hasn’t been affected because you along with many other customers ordered before discount structures were reduced and we’re seeing manufacturers heavily strip back their support levels on a weekly basis because if there’s no stock cars to sell and there’s part shortages, manufacturers are all having the same thought process of why do we need to discount cars if we’re struggling to build them? Volkswagen Audi Group are having a price increase as of Monday and we’ve just had Jaguar Land Rover announce the biggest discount reduction I’ve seen in 8 years”.
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