May be, that the build does not begin, until all the bits are ready to be bolted on. Suspect, when the initial build week is given its an estimate and was thrown off the scale due to lack of chip-bits. Its also quite possible, Audi totally under-estimated the demand for the new model and was caught off guard. Certainly the worst case for Vorsprung models majority of the orders from members had no estimated build-week, just blank and only now some are being informed of build year+ from date of order.This 'Build Date' is very confusing to say the least as in 'What does it actually mean' ?
My build date was week 49 2021, car was confirmed 'Built' 31st January,
It's obviously the start of the process, but cars generally only take around five days start to finish, I imagine that is from the start of pressing all the sheet metal parts and welding etc
So why does it appear to take 6-7 weeks from build week to 'built' ?
On top of all of this, not sure if its Audi-UK or Audi-De are applying batch restrictions on what is being built, wiith Saloon's getting preference over Sportsback is the initial observation from our data and from my dealer.