[BMWDave]

Hi Simon. Bet you spoke to Tristan at AutoClassic.

To give you some idea, I ordered mine back in February, before there were any serious road tests or much talk of them (except those other addicts!) here in Oz. I didn't want to get a dealer alloted one that I couldn't customise so I placed my order for my Le Mans Blue one. My car literally left port in Bremerhaven, Germany last night and I'll hopefully see it in mid/late June (the 19th) at this point. That's four months wait and I was lucky to sneak into the April production run (built last week of April).

Now that more is known about the car and the reviews just keep getting better, I think September is a reasonable timeframe. Bear in mind that only 200 will roll off the production line destined for Oz, a number which we share with the 125i also, so there isn't many of them.

As for pricing, like you say, Autoclassic has the market cornered out here in the West so yeah, corporate is about as good as you're going to do.