When the grill is lit and the first beer has been emptied, you like to add a couple of "waiting sausages" together with the far more high-quality pieces of meat that you will enjoy later in the evening. The sausages, which are ready in a couple of minutes, dull the feeling of hunger and the waiting time until the main course is ready.
One of them is to give a correct estimate for the customer's five-year-old Leaf or diesel car. What will it be worth when the new car arrives? - And by the way, maybe you don't know when the new car will really arrive? Perhaps the customer wants to sell his old car first, in case it becomes unsellable in two years? But what will he drive in the meantime?
Should there be a car while you wait?
Birger N Haug offers an Ioniq while you wait for your new Hyundai Kona. It is about a leasing agreement that keeps the customers mobile until they get the new car. The Ioniq Electric is a top electric car by today's standards, but the new Hyundai Kona comes with almost twice as long a range.
Waiting car as a business idea?
I don't know where they went - the Fornebu-based company that wanted to invest in renting out electric cars to people who were waiting for new ones. The solution was based on flexible, monthly rental periods. The business idea was good, and one day before Christmas there was a whole bunch of new KIA Souls at Rolfstangen. KIA Soul are great waiting cars. But today it seems quiet around the company. They should have started in the premises of the former Opel City in Fornebu, but the website for the company still exists - and all the KIAs are now gone.
Leie Elbil AS
Can a car be good without waiting?
When cars are sold without a waiting period these days, one thinks that perhaps there are cars that are not very popular. Hyundai Ioniq and KIA Soul can be delivered within a couple of days. They are no longer the coolest cars on the market, but they are far from unpopular on the sales charts.
When Mitsubishi announces that the Outlander plug-in hybrid can be delivered without waiting, it's easy to ask the question: Isn't the Outlander starting to age a little? But the message works. Outlander is currently in 3rd place on the sales charts (February 2019).
These days, Ford advertises that the new Focus has no waiting time either. Without a serious electric car alternative, the Focus can no longer defend its former top positions on the sales charts. It is conceivable that Ford has taken in more cars than the market demands. In any case, the new Focus is on the list of cars we really want to drive. A Focus will certainly make the wait seem shorter - and more fun.
Don't underestimate the waiting sausage!
The problem with waiting sausage is that it often tastes unashamedly good. A hot, juicy cheese sausage with chopped onions, sweet mustard and ketchup often tastes much better than the dry, tasteless pieces of meat served with the main course. Sometimes you don't need more than a waiting sausage.
Do you really need to commit to waiting two years for a car, when you can drive "waiting sausage" until "everyone" can buy the new cars?
Not all car dealers have good customer relations systems. I have heard of an order that was "put on hold" because the car salesman had quit. The car company lacked routines for transferring customer relationships to other sellers. If you have a car on long-term order from a dealer, you should "stick your finger in the eye" of the seller every now and then to check that everything is in order. Otherwise, there may be a lot of waiting sausages...
The cars we have to wait a long time for
If you plan to get a Hyundai Kona or KIA Niro electric car, you will have to wait up to two years. The same also applies to the brand new electric car from DS, the DS3 Crossback. It should be possible to deliver the new Audi e-tron and Opel Ampera within "just" one year. Opel advertises that you can get the car during 2019.
Source: Motor.no "Here is the overview of the waiting time for electric cars
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