I just had a look at one of the vehicle shipping companies (bulk transporters, not the ones that do individual cars). The general transport timing to east coast Australia is about 60 days. Shipping schedule is every 18 days, then 40-odd days in transit. Add on holding time at the factory (Ineos wouldn't want that to be too long), then transit to the port (another day), then staging & loading. At the receiving end there's customs, then transit to holding, then transport to dealer-agent, pre-delivery, then customer pick-up. So say 2.5 months conservatively from the vehicle rolling off the assembly line to customer pick-up. This would match up with the timing some of us here already have from Ineos. I was notified that my vehicle was currently in production mid-January with an estimated delivery date of 12th April.
BTW, am I the only person who would enjoy being allowed to participate in the pre-delivery peel-off of all the protective film? Maybe dealers could offer a "customer peel-off" option for vehicles at hand-over. Our current vehicle was an MB company car for a month before we got it and it still had a lot of film on various stainless steel trims. Very satisfying to remove when we got it.
