I also have heard the BATCH theory from the truck driver hauling one of the show cars around... I have talked to my dealer and I told him if they do it that way I want the first red one that comes in regardless of options, I have personal reasons for wanting to get an early one.. not because I want one of the first ones to come out though... I also told him I would consider other colors (except black or white) as long as I got to look at them first and see if I liked that color on the car... I am number one on the list at my dealer.Rick Tinley Park said:My dealer is taking no money. He has assured me that THAT (a cash deposit) will be "taken care of" when I actually order the car. He told me as a good customer (this would be my 4th Saturn) that I would be fine. According to him, no matter how the cars are allotted - I will be given a chance in the order I am (I am #2). If I want a specific car (I do - Yellow with tan leather - Monsoon sound system and Polished wheels (not painted)) then I will get that as soon as it hits their store. He believes (his belief through conversations with people he knows in MFG.) that "batches" of cars will come out - then orders will be filled. The batches will be of each available color with medium to full options. Then they will build ordered cars.
He agreed June is not an unreasonable time to expect the car I want done the way I want. Could it be longer?? Damned straight... Less time -- Not likely...
I will be patient... I want the car I want -- not the "first" one.
Rick Tinley Park said:My dealer is taking no money. He has assured me that THAT (a cash deposit) will be "taken care of" when I actually order the car. He told me as a good customer (this would be my 4th Saturn) that I would be fine. According to him, no matter how the cars are allotted - I will be given a chance in the order I am (I am #2). If I want a specific car (I do - Yellow with tan leather - Monsoon sound system and Polished wheels (not painted)) then I will get that as soon as it hits their store. He believes (his belief through conversations with people he knows in MFG.) that "batches" of cars will come out - then orders will be filled. The batches will be of each available color with medium to full options. Then they will build ordered cars.
He agreed June is not an unreasonable time to expect the car I want done the way I want. Could it be longer?? Damned straight... Less time -- Not likely...
I will be patient... I want the car I want -- not the "first" one.[/QUOTE
This sounds exactly like the information I got from my dealer, and I beleive him.![]()
The EOP cars were color batched to a degree. Post-EOP cars there is no batching going on from what we've heard.SkyMan 07 said:I also have heard the BATCH theory from the truck driver hauling one of the show cars around... I have talked to my dealer and I told him if they do it that way I want the first red one that comes in regardless of options, I have personal reasons for wanting to get an early one.. not because I want one of the first ones to come out though... I also told him I would consider other colors (except black or white) as long as I got to look at them first and see if I liked that color on the car... I am number one on the list at my dealer.
well that is not quite the same Batching thing we are talking about, what we are talking about they are going to make a batch of cars will the same options, and send them out, then make some with other options and send them out, probably mixing different colors in.... but the dealers will not be placing special orders probably until june...brentil said:The EOP cars were color batched to a degree. Post-EOP cars there is no batching going on from what we've heard.
Life is cruel... :willy:Delnari said:Exterior Colors
Sunburst Yellow (not offered on Solstice currently)
I was listing that there was one type of batching that has existed to this point, and then that there has been no batching of any type since then. Meaning that there has never been any option batching at all to this point.brentil said:The EOP cars were color batched to a degree. Post-EOP cars there is no batching going on from what we've heard.