Progress?

Call from the dealer a minute ago (well, a call back from a message I left) and my car is still unconfirmed. For the first time he has now mentioned a build week - 8, and from what I've read elsewhere I should get the car 3 weeks after the quoted build week. But obviously I can't start counting weeks until its confirmed.

That isn't actually going to stop me counting though, Week 8 is the week of 21st February 2011, 3 weeks later being 14th to 20th March.

So when can I have it?

I called Colbornes in the week before Christmas to check on progress but my salesman wasn't in. Guy who answered the call said call back in the new year. Humph.

Called again today... Incredibly, they still can't give me a build week for my car. Not even a guess. This is not good news as I have no idea when the car will actually be made.

Sumatra? Nope. Name found for this Blog.

Now the car is finally on order, VW have discontinued my colour choice. So, I will not be having a Sumatra GT.

I've given a lot of thought to colour, as I've never really had the choice before, and this was my thinking: My old Corrado was dark blue and looked great but the choice of blue for the Scirocco is either Rising (Suzi says it looks cheap) or Night (too dark). Black is out - as its just a bit too much. Viper green? Not for me. Black Oak brown? tempting but can't see one in the flesh yet and in pictures its a bit too chocolaty. There is also a grey, which makes the Scirocco look like an Audi. In a bad way.
Candy white -Ummm no. I know white is really popular at the moment but I just don't like it - to me it still looks like the no-cost option it is. And that goes for Salsa red too. Red would normally be my default choice for a car, but not fire-engine red. Unless its Italian.

And that led me to the old rule - if unsure of what colour to go for, stick with the National Racing Colour. In this case Silver for Germany. There is a choice of two Silvers for the Scirocco but apparently Silver Leaf would be better decribed as Champagne. So choice finally made - Relex Silver.

Hopefully this blog will one day be full of lovely pictures of my car, for now I'll just say that it should look a bit like this:

On Order

Today I have put down £1000 as a deposit for my new Scirocco GT 2.0 TSI. I am using Colbornes VW of Guildford as my dealer (from a choice of 4, all about equidistant). My total budget is about £25k before any discount I can arrange, and that fits in nicely with the options I discussed in an earlier post.

VW Scirocco GT TSI 210, Manual:
Metallic paint, Sumatra
Panoramic Sunshine Roof
Rear Parking sensors
Folding Mirrors
DAB radio

Unconfirmed delivery date given is 11/03/11. That's 4 months.