GTI Edition 50 first press release

[MrEdition50]

Yes Vw uk any questions I have I email her as she is keeping the case open until we have received our car

So they are basically going to release the cars in bunches across the uk so everyone gets one roughly at the same time? My order went in on the 15th of January and I was hoping that would make me high on the list but now I’m thinking it’s just a lottery,

Thanks for this, I believe it to be correct, no such thing as order first build first, I’ve just been told a build week of 20 and they received my order on the 16th of January, I did fully spec the car leaving out head up and the leather seats, so yeah maybe it’s just the batch mine is allocated to we shall see! Still excited
If the ED50 is a truly limited production run of a specific small number of vehicles, it probably does make sense for VW to build them all in a specific batch - or batches - which would then mean customers receiving their vehicles at roughly the same time.

It’s always been a bit of a mystery how VW schedule specific vehicles for production; seems that ordering early is no guarantee of an early build. Historically, there seems to be no correlation between order date and build date. I can remember a few years ago (think it might have been when the mk7 GTI was launched), a forum member creating a spreadsheet of other forum member’s car order details (e.g. vehicle spec, order dates and confirmed build dates) to try and understand how / when VW allocated specific vehicles for production but it didn’t help - if anything, it created even more confusion / uncertainty.

I dare say a customer’s chosen spec might (will?) also affect when their car’s scheduled to be built as VW are unlikely to allocate cars to specific build weeks until all of the manufacturers of a customer’s chosen options have confirmed availability of those options and / or when they’ll be able to supply them. Assuming this to be so, then ‘fully loaded’ cars might not be scheduled for production as soon as standard spec cars due to the more complex supply chain (more manufacturers / suppliers in the supply chain increases the risk that there could be delays if some manufacturers have production or supply issues themselves).