General I am NOT buying a GREEN Cross!

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General I am NOT buying a GREEN Cross!

Im Cross

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With all due respect to owners and admirers of the Green Panda Cross, I prefer another color.

Eight to twelve weeks for an other-then-green Cross?

Hello Fiat!!!

We are four months into the year or seven months if you count from September when year models are usually released.

How hard is it to ship orange cars?

I don't really expect any replies, but thanks for letting me vent. :bang:
 
I think 8 to 12 weeks is excessive in a time when there are thousands of cars sitting unsold in docks and yards across the UK and Ireland - unless you're getting someone completely off the wall - but a different colour isn't.

I had the keys to my 100HP 6 days after ordering it - five of those were waiting for the deposit cheque to clear!
 
I think 8 to 12 weeks is excessive in a time when there are thousands of cars sitting unsold in docks and yards across the UK and Ireland - unless you're getting someone completely off the wall - but a different colour isn't.

I know for a fact that if I'm buying a new car I want if fresh from the factory! I'm not going to pay through the nose for a car that's been sitting for upto 2 years! :eek: ;)
 
I waited just under 2 weeks for my 100HP and after a bit of investigation and closer inspection it's possible to work out the build date. Mine hadn't been sat around for too long to be honest.

I don't think 8-12 weeks is unreasonable for a factory build though
 
Pandas aren't sitting around unsold. It's the bigger less efficient new cars that are sitting around unsold in compounds.
FIAT have been very fortunate; they designed a low cost car to be produced at a rate of around 250,000 a year and they have been pretty near hitting their planned production levels consistently since it's release.
Apart from black bumper Actives you won't find any new Pandas that are hard to move on.
Between the CO2 taxation/congestion scheme in London and the scrappage schemes in Europe Pandas are moving well.

What's wrong with Green anyway - that colour looks very classy on the Panda Cross. Dealers won't order cars in difficult colours and Orange is a difficult colour to sell on in the secondhand market, just like Salmon pink or Yellow.
 
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