Jeff:
It's the distance to drive for any kind of service - scheduled or otherwise that is the only issue since they only have 1 for the metro area versus 54 BMW dealers. Now, the number of vehicles made is obviously different....
The plan from Ineos has been to have remote service in certain areas through a third party.
With most of the reservation holders I spoke with, the expected starting price was around $80-85k; in certain locales including South Florida, LA, and Georgia, I had a number of reservation holders tell me they were confident it would start "just under $100k" and be up to $125k with all the options. Of course, I spoke with a number of folks who were expecting something closer to the initial 2019/2020-era $50k pricing, but after driving the vehicles most agreed that there was no way the pricing would be that low. Even amongst many of us drivers for the PTO2 tour, we expected north of $80k for a starting price.
Maybe all the cheap folks live in Texas and Arkansas as we thought prices should be in the $67,500 to $75,000 range for what was spec'd out and drive.
I have to drive 5 1/2 hours. One way, so, 11 hour trip to the dealer and back. And, that is with Dallas traffic on a good day. Still, not a deal breaker for me.
More planning than worry, and I'm assuming a much larger down payment will be due once we hear from the dealers. So just time to actually work out the realities of life with (or without) a Gren. Definitely a cool, unique, and capable vehicle. Hopefully a long term success with minimal short term pain from the initial supporters.
I agree. Several other manufacturers started with less.
Over an hour! Oh, the huge manitee! My delivering dealer is in SLC, UT. 12 hours / 803 miles away. That's an airline ticket or two and overnight hotel stay when I take delivery. I'm on the SE side of Tucson, AZ. Ineos' future plans for the next year or maybe two are to have a service center somewhere near Phoenix, which is over 2 hours drive from me.
Newport Beach, CA is less than 500 miles (7 1/2 hours) from Tucson, so suggest you change delivering dealer once officially announced.
Nope. Not giving Gavin Newsome a cent. F Kalifornia.
Pick your poison but at least it is in Orange County, CA
It’s 11hrs if you literally turned around and came right home. The problem is that your service will take half a day, or worst yet, needs to stay there for a few days because they have to order parts.
One of the best regarded Toyota aftermarket shops in Maryland is literally <5 miles from us). However, the shop that builds our vehicles and maintains them is in North Carolina (been their customer for years), door to door with no traffic and one stop is around 6hrs each way; while having my girlfriend's Tacoma re-geared last month I just rolled that upgrade into a 6 day visit to NC (2 days for gears + big brake kit to be installed, 2 days of driving around to do the 500mi break in, and 1 day of helping teach an off road class); then heading back home. In the winter when I don't feel like laying on a cold driveway to do an oil change, guess what? 12 hour round trip time!
My reason was because $450 was a small enough amount to pay to get a good spot in line and to give the process a chance to develop. And obviously from then to now, there hasn’t been anymore financial obligation, so why not let it play out some more. $450 gives you options and there’s nothing to loose at this point.
I gotcha. I used to live in MD and still make the trip up a few times a year. The difference for me is that a trip because you want to do something is much easier than a trip you have to go for.
True, and now am thinking Colorado Springs as service could be wrapped into a vacation.
