Sometimes "I don't know" is the right answer.
I choose to believe the trucks will show up at the dealers in late March or April, unless something unpredicted happens and they are delayed again. The biggest trouble GV has caused itself is making promises about a delivery date when they aren't in control of all the factors. In my book that goes to a lack of experience, someone should have known better than that. I find it hard enough in my business to nail down the exact completion date of a complex project, and introducing a new brand of vehicles and getting them through all the red tape of several government agencies and setting up manufacturing and the logistics of sales and service support, and making allowances for setbacks, go way beyond merely difficult. Our local weathermen can't predict what the weather will be like five days from now, (they sometimes get later the same day wrong) so I'm willing to cut GV some slack on not being able to tell us what we all want to know- when will the trucks be here? And certainly there is no profit to be made from not selling a product (except maybe for some kind of scam operation, and we're not going there), so the motivation is there to keep things moving. They finally started sharing information with the dealerships and even that is coming back to dog them because people tend to hear what they want to hear, so pass along conflicting information. I predict that the next vehicle they try to import (the Scorpio SUV?) will go a little smoother. I think it's safe to say nobody should be happy with the way this one has gone, but again, I think the biggest mistake they made was predicting when the trucks will arrive- I'm sure the pressure was huge to name a date, but they shouldn't have done it. And they surely are suffering because of it.
Okay, GV, where are those trucks?
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