wpapua
Member
As a 'rural owner', I concur. It will be very handy to be able to charge-up when we visit the 'big smoke' !
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As a 'rural owner', I concur. It will be very handy to be able to charge-up when we visit the 'big smoke' !
Given your position in the queue, that can't have been an easy choice. Congrats and welcome to the P85D club.
Mark E
Member
Dborn
Confirmed
TesAus
Member
I'm still there with you DBorn, you are not the only one. Perfection obviously takes some time?
Mark E
Member
Im actually guessing it's the Signature White interior as that requires different leather.
Not sure if it's any of those? Higgy has white leather and his is done. A few sig reds are also done. I actually think it just has not been manually updated tbh.
They are just taking more care with Dborn's car.:smile:
I wonder if any car will actually be shipped until all the Sigs are ready? Not sure how many Sigs there are but we know of someone who is number 32...I guess there are no more than 50.
I don't know how many make up an economic shipment, I assume there is an optimum number?
Does anyone know how they are shipped? I assume they would be containerised?
I wonder if any car will actually be shipped until all the Sigs are ready? Not sure how many Sigs there are but we know of someone who is number 32...I guess there are no more than 50.
I don't know how many make up an economic shipment, I assume there is an optimum number?
Does anyone know how they are shipped? I assume they would be containerised?
Dborn
Confirmed
I understand the first one or two currently in country were FLOWN out!!! huge cost!! Given the port of shipping, it seems unlikely that they will come out on a RO-RO ship. So, that leaves containers. There are specialised containers which can do a double decker for cars, probably the most economic way, since shipping costs are volume based not weight based (as in cubic metres). 2 cars in one container does not cost more than a single car in a container. Using the R-Rak system in a 40ft container. With R-Rak 4 cars per container!!
It's likely they will all go on one ship as they leave so infrequently. Also, the average cruise time is around 7 weeks across the Pacific.
WhiteStar
Member
On a cruise ship maybe :smile: On a cargo ship it's probably more like 3 weeks transit port to port.
Mark E
Member
I checked - it's 19 days from LA to Sydney by container ship. You'd need to add in time at each end for customs etc, so around a month plus the local time to pre-deliver. Generally cars are shipped covered in all kinds of protecting films and goop that must be cleaned off.
Standard container, two cars each for all overseas transportation. At least, that's how I was told it was done in June 2014. "Overseas" in this case also includes Hawaii. Back then, there was an area in the factory where they lined up the cars for container loading. Banners at the head of each queue read "Honolulu", "Tilburg", "Drammen".
Dborn
Confirmed
It seems that there have been lots of transfers to D in the States, so much so, that delivery times have shortened by about a month. Since we will have had our launch, perhaps that will translate over here too? Anyway, good luck to you!I just got confirmation that my D is in the production queue, and my old order has dropped off the system. Given I've been told the earliest delivery is June, I guess the queue is a long one.
TesAus
Member
Can't be that as I am blue with black leather so no common themes with DBorn!
I am sig 32, not sure if there were many other higher signature reservations?
