Please don’t take this as antagonizing, it’s not, but I’m genuinely curious why the car was paid for well ahead of time?

 

Just to make you guys feel better, I've been trying to order a new Spyder for 5 months now, and with allocation spots slowing to a crawl or downright standstill, now I find myself in a new MY car with an increased cost... Loads of fun.....

 

This could be an issue, but my feeling is that "if you're going to hold me to a purchase, you owe it to me to tell me exactly what I'm buying".

 

I'd much rather pay a little more for a 2022. In five or ten years when someone goes to look for a 4.0 liter car, the first piece of advice they will get is "avoid 2021 MY cars." You'll more than get the price increase back when you resell it.

 

I feel your pain brother. I picked my new GTS 4.0 up the first week of March. I only got to put about 400 miles on it before I got the call from PCNA. Believe me it’s not any less painful to have a car waiting at the dealer than in your garage.

Hang in there...

 

I think it's fair to say this sucks for all of us dealing with this issue in one form or another. I'm not happy in my situation, and I would probably have even more angst in yours.

My comment was out of interest in how the communications will be handled. I.e., you are an "owner" at this point and I am not, are the requirements for communications different? Is more transparency required when dealing with owners versus in-process purchasers, and what might the implications be?

 

My dealership handles all new car sales transactions that way: signing papers, arranging payment, applications for licenses tag, etc prior to doing the PDI. My SA said they had trouble with people not paying for their cars or something before they adopted that policy. (Maybe they got a lot of cars dumped on them by people refusing to take their cars after a previous stop sale.)

There is no difference in communication of information (or lack thereof!) since I am an owner as opposed to a potential buyer.

 

I called Porsche Canada yesterday.
I think the lady who waters the plants picked up the phone as she only managed to annoy me more with her lack of client service skills !
She was deflecting everything to my local dealer (who has been very transparent once official information came out, but still waiting on remediation plans from Porsche) and then managed to lose me when I asked to be transferred.

I sold my 997TT two weeks ago (my GT4 arrived at the dealer March 12th) and now have no "summer" car.
In Montreal, 6 weeks represent 25% of the drivable window in a year.

I'm sure all will be forgotten once I sit in it ! I hope...

 

So strange, only heard of these conditions for ED; PEC; or dealer is shipping to customer...

 

I would expect Porsche need to treat you with a greater level of transparency because you own the vehicle at this point. Just trying to apply some rationale and understand the watch-outs.

 

I feel for everyone in this thread waiting on a car. Just know that it will be worth the wait! If my engine munched itself tomorrow, I would wait a long time for a new engine before trying to get out of owning the car.

 

This will be enough to carry me for another day.

 

good luck!🍀

 

If it makes you feel any better, I traded in my 991.1 July 2020!

Supposed to get the new one next week to start the new driving season. Now it looks like another 2 months’ wait, if not longer.

I don’t like using this phrase, but it is what it is.

I am just going to go with the flow since I have no control whatsoever.

 

I sold my Targa GTS about 2 weeks ago and now my Spyder ETA got moved to July 23rd...glad I got a lot of money for it; however, it would have been nice to have an open-top car for the nice weather.