Waiting Lists For German Cars

[b]Bloomberg[/b]
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-08/audi-buyers-wait-months-as-factories-at-full-steam-struggle-to-keep-pace.html
[b]Audi Buyers Wait Months as Factories Struggle to Keep Up With Orders[/b]
By Cornelius Rahn

[quote]Audi AG buyers must wait an average of three to four months for cars like the $52,700 A6 sedan as the company runs factories at full steam in an effort to keep pace with record demand, sales chief Peter Schwarzenbauer said.

Customers at BMW, the world’s biggest luxury-car maker, must wait as many as three months for most models and as long as six months for the overhauled X3 sport-utility vehicle, said Birgit Hiller, a spokeswoman for the Munich-based company.
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My comments:  No discount selling for them.  Want a German luxury car?  Put your non-refundable deposit down now, pay full retail, or above retail price, and wait 3 months.  Oh ya, and suck up to the sales staff at the garage.  Actually this attitude is how our estate agents were so successful over the last decade. 

In the depths of the great recession Mercedes had slow sales on some of their cars.  So they did the typical Germanic response and [i]raised[/i] prices.  Sales picked right back up.