General update!
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General update!
Hi Mick
Fiats come to the UK via boat when built in Italy (Punto, Bravo, new Panda) or Poland (old Panda & 500). The Qubo & Doblo also travel by boat at some point on their journey to the UK but i dunno if they get the boat directly from the Turkish coast (they're made in Turkey) or whether they travel by train to the port in Italy first & then catch the boat with the Italian-built models.
Either way, the boat section of the journey is quite slow & then the car will sit at the docks in Portbury near Bristol until the transporter has a full-load going to your locality, then it's transported by road to your dealership. Once it arrives it's usually about a week for the dealer to register, tax & PDI the car, then you can usually collect it. 3 weeks is about right from this point i think
Liam
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8-12 weeks seems the norm for Fiat/Alfa. All my Fiat's have been 2nd hand but the Parents 500 took 7 weeks from order to arriving at the dealer, then a further week before it was ready to collect, but that came out of the Polish factory which does seem to fire out the 500s at a pretty quick rate considering the amount being sold.
Maybe because the sales volumes are higher on the 500 than the rest of the models, the factory is more geared-up for it than the others. Even so, 12 weeks for the Qubo is a far cry from some of the 6-12 month waits that some customers of VW Group or Hyundai have been enduring recently!
8-12 weeks seems the norm for Fiat/Alfa. All my Fiat's have been 2nd hand but the Parents 500 took 7 weeks from order to arriving at the dealer, then a further week before it was ready to collect, but that came out of the Polish factory which does seem to fire out the 500s at a pretty quick rate considering the amount being sold.
Maybe because the sales volumes are higher on the 500 than the rest of the models, the factory is more geared-up for it than the others. Even so, 12 weeks for the Qubo is a far cry from some of the 6-12 month waits that some customers of VW Group or Hyundai have been enduring recently!
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One things for sure scorps it'll be more than worth the wait!!
Thx for that Liam, just wondered why it took so long, at the beginning I was told I would get the car in 12 weeks, It was ordered 21st march and I'm impatient haha
I can feel the excitement building from here !!!
