Chatting to Dan at KH a few days ago, even his usual optimism on delivery dates was lacking. He did say MMC have a couple of prototypes and staff are actively encouraged to take them home and clock up as many miles as possible, not leaving them publicly parked anywhere of course. The aim apparently is to get close to 30.000 miles on each before production starts, lessons having been learnt from previous model release of course!
Show an interest in the new model and it is "fantastic" and due to low numbers "the residuals will be high" switch that interest to a very late model and "the delivery dates will be long" and the "residuals of the current model will be better". Other dealers claim there are six out on loan to long standing customers. Just saying.
