(25-10-2011 08:27am)Urban Splash Wrote:  Uk customers always have the longest to wait for Audis. Mainly because we are stupid enough to accept it. People are so desperate to get into a q5, they are happy to wait over a year....

I don't understand the uk's obsession with damn Audis!

(10-11-2011 08:52am)mark_n Wrote:  Token's link and the articles referred to in it are interesting. Looking further, there's an argument that the UK market is being starved of cars because of the low value of the pound against the euro and this applies to both European and domestic manufacturers.

For European manufacturers, they have to keep their UK prices down to get sales and profits suffer compared to selling them elsewhere. Case in point. My 911 turbo cost £115k in 2009 and the exact same car/specification in the dealership next to the factory was €169k. It's clear the profit to Porsche of selling cars in Europe is much greater than selling them in the UK, so why not divert production from the UK?

It works the same for LR products too. If they can take advantage of the weak pound to sell elsewhere at a higher profit compared to the UK, the obvious thing to do is to restrict production for the UK, to the frustration of scum like me. We see reports of lots of cars going for export and there's no doubt cars are being churned out but the UK market is being starved.

That, I think, is the real reason for the (as we see it) chaotic supply situation in the UK.

One sobering thought is that with all the euro problems, you might expect Sterling to be a safe haven but as the exchange rate is stalled, it's clear the markets think we are in the same do-doos as the Europeans.

(10-11-2011 07:58am)Acwats Wrote:  There's a quarter page article in this week's Autocar. Sounds like they've picked up on a forum users case.
I can't find a web link but as usual comments from LR are guarded and unconvincing.