I know its not a Golf, but I ordered my new Tiguan R-Line on the 22nd February (so week 8 ) We are now in week 14 (nearly 15) and I still don't have a confirmed build date yet, however that's not the end of the story.
My dealer showed me a copy of his sales screen and it showed an "unconfirmed" build date of week 26 (so week beginning 28th June), meaning I wouldn't see the car most likely until end July / early August. That's a 21-22 week (approx) delivery time. When I really pressed the dealership and threatened to cancel the order (as I'd had it in writing the order would take 12-14 weeks), they contacted VW UK, and the response was surprising and almost unbelievable at the same time.
Apparently (and this is from the email from VW UK to the dealership he copied a part of too me), the UK has run out of it's quota of Tiguan Elegance and R-Line models and only the base model and the Tiguan Life were being built. Apparently the earliest the new orders will be accepted by VW Germany for build is week 26, and apparently there's a lot of us in the same boat, so I can't imagine they can build all the back log in the same week. No mention of Covid causing delays or indeed semiconductor shortages, just that VW UK had run out of it's production quotas on these trim levels until the 2nd half of this year.
How ridiculous it that. They have order slots available for lower spec and cheaper models, and are fully willing to have customers cancel their orders for the more expensive models, just to fill the lower ones. It really beggars belief what moron's are running VW these days. The wife and I are currently deciding whether to the leave the order in place and just enjoy the GTI longer, or cancel altogether, and for the first time in 16 years just leave the VAG brand and move elsewhere.