ffs - they lied, or if I am being generous, they made a mistake. I had been trying to call back to Maidenhead all week to see if I could get the extra info Mr M said about to track the car down a bit more - it had got to the stage where they did not even put me in the queue to wait on the phone anymore - just automated message saying they are too busy and will contact me nearer my delivery date (for my Model 3 - Lol) and then hung up. Eventually, somewhat frustrated I started dialling all and any branch that would answer, got thru to a random one North of London who kindly looked up my car and told me it was on hold, he'd release it now but it would not match for a delivery anytime before May and that was if I was lucky - don't feel like I have been lucky so far...
I tried to speak to Bristol again, the phone actually got answered but my contact was away from the office, at this point I have my finger hovering above the "buy now" button on a performance X in the Inventory section - not the spec I wanted, not the colour I wanted, but I could get it in two weeks and it costs £100 at this stage - non refundable but with UK distance selling rules I'm not sure that would hold up.
I did have a brief moment of panic when the website would not accept the order for some unknown glitch - I thought someone else had brought it while I was hesitating, but a quick browser refresh and re-entered details sorted that - so technically I now have 2 cars on order, I'll wait to see which one turns up first before cancelling the other - 3 weeks to get the 1st £4k deposit back anyway so waiting a while longer is worth not getting out of the queue completely in case the 2nd car has issues too!