nscrbug said:
Thanks for the explanation...helps to understand all the 'lingo'. :willy: Wow...you don't think you'll get an image until June? That's a long time...and you're not even ordering an automatic...any idea why some folks are getting imaged quickly and others are not? Now I'm
really skeptical that my salesguy and GM were 'on the level' with me. :skep: I wonder if that's what he meant when he told me "June"...as in, I'll get my image at that time. Oh well...I guess I won't get my hopes up very high now. Maybe my car will arrive in time for Christmas.
I plan on stopping by Downers Grove on Saturday as they think the 1st car will be arriving by the end of the week. I'll try and get more info out of the GM when I'm there.
If you are Imaged - then you should get order number - and code (I think at least a 025 -- AM I right ??) I don't want to pour cold water on you --- or disappoint myself -- but I'd imagine you are rather later in the race as you just signed on. Don't let that stop you -- because even if you are (like me #9 out of 10 and I signed on August 12 2005) you WILL get a SKY.
Most bigger dealers in the Chicagoland area got 10 images allotted (they don't get to use them all right away). Now in places like Florida - California - warm places that sell more convertibles, they got 30-40 cars. What Saturn is doing is letting everyone (all 500 stores) order a few at a time (in Illinois they seem to be getting 2 images a month, but in a place that has 30 cars -- they may be getting 5-6 images a month) to "even out" the distribution.
So, let's look at a 10 car distribution:
1 car in January (we have the owner of this car here in the forum - I plan to be there when he picks it up)
2 cars were imaged for March (that is three)
2 cars will be in April (that is 5)
2 cars in May (7)
2 cars in June (9) -- Should be me!!
and the last in July.
My dealer said -- if the line is running good -- they "could" increase the imaging -- the GM there said the best he would expect would be a car a week or 4 cars a month, but no such thing has happened when I last spoke to them.