Mark_N wrote:

Mine is poverty spec by comparison...

Estoril Blue
Body coloured sliding panoramic roof
21 inch wheels (standard)
Carbon Fibre Engine Cover

5 year service pack

Ebony interior
Ebony Alston headlining
60/40 rear seats (standard)

Carbon fibre interior finishers + steering wheel bezel
Adaptive xenons

Auto dimming exterior mirrors
Space saver spare wheel
Painted body side mouldings
Surround cameras
Front centre console cooler
Extra large washer bottle
Loadspace rails

Full Park Assist/360/Reverse Parking
Traffic Sign Recognition
Wade Sensing/Blind Spot/Etc

Meridian Upgrade

InControl Apps
InControl Wi-Fi

Phil, how long are they saying your custom interior will add to the build time, if anything?

I've not heard anything but will ask around. And as far as I know SVR build slots haven't been confirmed yet. 

I haven't heard anything but then I'm more likely to hear the world is ending before I hear about SVR availability. Mark

SVR in Estoril Blue

ive been told to take the pano roof and keep my slot or get pushed back to May and wait for the sliding roof. (if stock becomes available by then)

i have kept the slot with the provision that if a sliding roof becomes available i can take it. 2012 Evoque
2014 Sport Autobiography
2015 SVR for the fun stuff
2016 Evoque SI4 Dynamic Lux for the daily drive
2016 Defender 90
2018 SVR

Asked my dealer this:

"Equally if there's issues with any particular parts of my spec (eg sliding pano roof) then please get in touch as I'd happily settle for just the full pano (non-sliding) roof if that gets an earlier build slot…"

And got this reply:

"Thank you for the email, There is a delay on all Sports with Pan roofs as it stands but as SVR is seprate from the norm I am sure this will be taken into account."

I'm not convinced but hopefully my message has got across to the dealer. SOLD - 15 plate Estoril SVR

SOLD - 64 plate Aleutian Silver Supercharged

SOLD - 63 plate Corris SDV6 Autobiography

"...taken into account". What will?  

Dickie wrote:

Asked my dealer this:

"Equally if there's issues with any particular parts of my spec (eg sliding pano roof) then please get in touch as I'd happily settle for just the full pano (non-sliding) roof if that gets an earlier build slot…"

And got this reply:

"Thank you for the email, There is a delay on all Sports with Pan roofs as it stands but as SVR is seprate from the norm I am sure this will be taken into account."

I'm not convinced but hopefully my message has got across to the dealer.

Mark_N wrote:

I haven't heard anything but then I'm more likely to hear the world is ending before I hear about SVR availability.

Hi Sally,

No delivery date, in fact nothing since the dealer told me the car has been built. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there was some sort of delay in turning completed cars into completed sales but of course we know nothing official. Mark

SVR in Estoril Blue

The site you mentioned www.roverstateofmind.com is a US site and the 400 being made are for the US market. I work for a dealer and my dealership was only given one SVR for this year. They have already been slotted with build dates and delivery dates. The one we have coming in has a June 2015 delivery date. After doing a search for other SVRs in the LR locater, most US deliveries will be taking place in May and June.

I am not sure I would take your Sales guy seriously if he told you that each dealer will receive the same number of units no matter what size the dealership is. In fact that is absolutely not the case in the US. The dealers will receive a percentage of the available units based on their sales of RRS. There is a crazy long formula of figuring how many cars will go to each dealer and each dealer will get at least 1 SVR where a few will get 2 or 3.

brodydez wrote:

I am not sure I would take your Sales guy seriously if he told you that each dealer will receive the same number of units no matter what size the dealership is. In fact that is absolutely not the case in the US. The dealers will receive a percentage of the available units based on their sales of RRS. There is a crazy long formula of figuring how many cars will go to each dealer and each dealer will get at least 1 SVR where a few will get 2 or 3.

Great to hear from a dealer. Thank you.

In the UK we were told several stories of how allocations were to be made, the final one being that orders were allocated to build in the order in which they were received centrally.

What we were/are told and what actually happened are two totally different things.