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If you don't need a car right now, wait. Likely that the car trade is facing a bit of a meltdown. Should be a buyers market.
What kind of car do you want? Saloon, hatch, estate suv? Are you a cash buyer or finance involved?
I'd also check that whether your deposit is refundable if the V60 is delayed.
Edit.. This looks a reasonable lease deal (from the pistonheads thread)
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I'm pondering.
Narked that I chose a Volvo V60 Polestar based on "it's ready and should arrive in a month", only for the lockdown to reveal that actually it's not even been produced yet. And it will still be months before it is produced, and maybe longer before I could use it. In the meantime the spec for the V60 has changed, and the things I couldn't choose because "this one is ready but this spec is fixed" are actually now the default options.
So... continue to buy a new car that already isn't the latest revision of that car, and that doesn't have the few options I would've liked... or return to the end of the queue and get precisely what I wanted and wait longer... or... something else?
Something else being: Maybe a Polestar 2, or maybe just open up the search fully again and start over.
The deposit I paid isn't so much that I would care about walking away from it. And super tiny things matter, like after I'd ordered and when I thought it was a few weeks until the V60 arrived I enquired about getting those few options added (a few £k more) plus some floor mats (£80), etc... and they quoted RRP for everything and wouldn't even consider just throwing the floor mats in... and at that point my view of the dealer went from "they're nice" to "wow, not even kind and generous at the sale stage, maybe this is going to be a bad relationship".
The Polestar 2 looks nice, I can't figure out the cost of a Tesla at all (wherever the discount savings comes from doesn't look like it's this planet), I might just say fuck it and buy a 2nd hand... basically I'm open to considering quite a lot again... except a BMW, anything but a BMW.