Game over for me - left it too late. Bit annoying as I wasn't financially able to commit to the car when it was released, had I known how long it would take to arrive it may be a different story.
If anyone is interested, VW has a lot of orders in the system for cars that were never allocated to a
Customer. They won't be built, if you are in the same position as me you are looking for a cancelled order ex-demo car now. Both of which are pretty rare and priced to the RRP.