Production up (?)

[Sobieski]

Strange thing that... car ordered earlier this year - delivery in January 2012 confirmed. Got a phone call just a few days ago.... she is already there ! Never happend to me before that a car has been delivered so much ahead of schedule. Pops a question... did they up the production in Leipzig?

Anyway, as Winter is right around the corner I leave her at the dealership in their showroom till spring is back. Hard time that will be....

[Ky1M]

Originally Posted by Sobieski

Strange thing that... car ordered earlier this year - delivery in January 2012 confirmed. Got a phone call just a few days ago.... she is already there ! Never happend to me before that a car has been delivered so much ahead of schedule. Pops a question... did they up the production in Leipzig?

Anyway, as Winter is right around the corner I leave her at the dealership in their showroom till spring is back. Hard time that will be....

Better go get her bro, those cold lonely winter nights. She will need some warm caress. You know what happens when you leaver her unattended , the window boy will step in.

[Sobieski]

[bvez3ro]

I wouldn't leave the car at the dealer. You don't know what they do with your car.

[Pugland53]

Same happened to me. Ordered in May, delivery due end Of September, actually arrived at the beginning of August, result!

[Beemer22]

Noway the car will be here after Jan 1, they can NOT deliver a 2011 model in 2012. Impossible. You will get the car before New Year's Eve.

[KenH]

What is the basis for this statement about delivering a 2011 car in 2012?

[ESC OFF]

Same thing happened to me, originally scheduled for a December build date, actual delivery 10/20. Instead of production being up (higher) maybe they are actually making a smaller total quantity??

Consider it an early Christmas gift...congrats!

[KenH]

I have read so much nonsense about 1M production constraints and end-of-production from people that claim to know that I no longer know what to believe.
However, today my dealer tells me that I can still have a new 1M in the specification I choose and it will arrive early January.
So what exactly is the position I wonder? It is hardly worthwhile for my dealer to lie to me as I have bought three new cars from them in the last six months.
I guess I will find out for certain early in the new year.
But, for what it is worth I believe that BMW will continue making them for the US market until the end of 2011.
Which happens to match the BMW NA production schedules circulating elsewhere.

[bdaddylo]

Originally Posted by KenH

I have read so much nonsense about 1M production constraints and end-of-production from people that claim to know that I no longer know what to believe.
However, today my dealer tells me that I can still have a new 1M in the specification I choose and it will arrive early January.
So what exactly is the position I wonder? It is hardly worthwhile for my dealer to lie to me as I have bought three new cars from them in the last six months.
I guess I will find out for certain early in the new year.
But, for what it is worth I believe that BMW will continue making them for the US market until the end of 2011.
Which happens to match the BMW NA production schedules circulating elsewhere.

So, how did you configure your order and what did your dealer charge you and did your dealer provide you with a production number? Production numbers should have been release for the December production schedule, so if your dealer can't provide one, I'd be skeptical at this point in time.

At the beginning of September BMW NA sent an official bulletin to the US dealers declaring October as the final month for US 1M production, but there is always the possibility that BMW NA may squeeze in a few orders in November and December for special cases.

Good luck and keep the forum posted on whatever the outcome.

[KenH]

Does anyone have a copy of this bulletin declaring October to be the end of US production? The only BMWNA document I have seen posted lists December as the end.
Assuming it arrives this will be my 28th new BMW and 9th M car.

[mPlasticDesign]

Originally Posted by KenH

Does anyone have a copy of this bulletin declaring October to be the end of US production? The only BMWNA document I have seen posted lists December as the end.
Assuming it arrives this will be my 28th new BMW and 9th M car.

This is what Matt had to say about 3 weeks ago:

Originally Posted by BMWNA MGuy

Our promise from Day 1 has been to give the press a US sales figure after production ends. For the US, the scheduled production run concludes at the end of the month, but we could technically receive production through year end. So you most likely won't hear a final number until after the holidays. Sorry I can't be more precise,
-Matt

[bdaddylo]

Originally Posted by KenH

Does anyone have a copy of this bulletin declaring October to be the end of US production? The only BMWNA document I have seen posted lists December as the end.
Assuming it arrives this will be my 28th new BMW and 9th M car.

Ask your dealer for it or call BMW NA. We've put this to rest in September. You may be able to find it using the search.

[KenH]

Well my dealer assured me within the last hour that I will get my car.
Why would they want to upset a good customer ?

[tkbr0wn]

Because most of the dealers have proven time and time again that they are clueless. If they are sure then they should be able to give you a production number.

[jnm]

[gobuffs]

Originally Posted by Beemer22

Noway the car will be here after Jan 1, they can NOT deliver a 2011 model in 2012. Impossible. You will get the car before New Year's Eve.

Sure they can. The only thing that matters is WHEN the car was made, NOT when it was sold.

[KenH]

I go to the same dealer time after time because they deliver. If they don't I will go somewhere else. For example my F25 X3 (with a distinctly one-off spec) arrived in less than four weeks despite the knowledgeable people on forums proclaiming at the time that it would take 3 or 4 times that long.
And then there were the experts on forums that told me it was impossible to retrofit a US X6 with Individual audio. But surprise, surprise, mine now has it.
And how many 959s did Porsche say they were going to restrict the build to? And how many did they actually build?
I could go on.
We shall see.....
As for a production number I am rather more interested in a car. I can't drive a production number.

[tkbr0wn]

Please keep us updated. Hope you get one, I just wouldn't count on it. Good Luck!

[KenH]

Originally Posted by gobuffs

Sure they can. The only thing that matters is WHEN the car was made, NOT when it was sold.

I note that a dealer in VA claims to have a "new" 2008 M3 in stock and several others have 2010 cars.

[KenH]

Originally Posted by tkbr0wn

Please keep us updated. Hope you get one, I just wouldn't count on it. Good Luck!

Thanks. The good thing is that I don't have to count on it (although it has now become a "quest"). but I am rather looking forward to comparing it with my 1988 E30 M3 EuropaMeister with a factory performance kit. Which sadly I had to leave in Europe as the cost and hassle of importing it to the US and getting it legal was more than it was worth. Or at least it se
emed so at the time. Needless to say I now wish that I had imported it regardless, it had only done 17k km from new in 2007 when I sold it.

[bdaddylo]

Originally Posted by KenH

As for a production number I am rather more interested in a car. I can't drive a production number.

Unfortunately a BMW can't be built without a production number.

BTW checkout the Audi TT RS review in the December issue of C&D. They stated, "Unfortunately, 1-series M production ceased in October." I wonder who provided them that tidbit of information.