New Audi Delivery Routing

If the shiny new car is built in 8 days , why the heck can’t it get here sooner Than 2 months and less than 2000km ?

To the op , Don’t VAG have a factory collection option ? With a fancy cylindrical multi multi story automated car picker lift.

nice little holiday to drive it home .

There's a massive global pandemic which has completely destroyed the logistical system around the world and caused massive backlogs of freight. 2 months for a non essential delivery is good these days, plenty of companies are seeing bigger delays on essentials. It's got so bad that some of the biggest US retailers have hired their own container ships.

Van Driver questioning why someone would show any interest in the delivery of their very expensive purchase 😁

The time to be interested in the delivery delays is when you sign off the delivery date not afterwards

Tbh, 8 days for build - starting from when, exactly ? 8 days, starting from........... 4 month's time ?

Getting a car from manufacture in 8d + 60days is to me, incredibly optimistic in the current manufacturing climate. I know the lead time on a HGV with M-B now, is next summer. A new Honda Goldwing is 1 year.

And the reason your item takes 60 days is because they need to put several hundred - or even thousand - on the same boat. It's not going to sail with 1 car on it...........

Weird, weird times.

OP, when I buy cars from Japan they make their way throughout Europe, including the UK, and then go to Zebrugge and get transferred to the Schielde Highway and usually arrive in Dublin a short while after. I believe there are other vessels that travel from Zeebrugge to Dublin too

And just as a side note, there is no tracking number when buying a new car so knowing what vessel the car is on is the next best thing as you can track it online. Look at the Golf R thread or Tesla thread and everyone is talking about what boat their new car is on

If you want to you can track your car go to www.track-myaudi.ie you will need a comm number from the dealer usually available 2 to 3 weeks after its ordered. There is big delays at the minute my one took 8 months it sat at the port in emden for a month.

"that system has been discontinued"

Expect to hear a lot more of that

VAG manufacturing is in disarray. Partly due to component shortages but mostly due closure of a number of factories so that they can be retooled for the EV onslaught

This in turn means existing factories have to be retooled to take on product lines from the factories that have been closed

Tesla - the best thing that has happened VAG in 50 years