daniel said:
I have not logged in here for some time. A while back my dashboard started showing May 2011 as my delivery month. My best guess is that with the disaster, changing those dashboard postings is a very low priority. My dealer told me that it looks to him as though firm delivery dates arrive about six weeks before the delivery, which I assume is when the car goes into production. But I don't see how they'd be shipping any cars for a while now, and maybe they'll even have halted production until rescue and resettlement efforts are complete.
You've got some reading to do.
You get a month of delivery when the car goes into production. You get a specific week-of date and Carwings/VIN shortly after the car is unloaded in Long Beach. Sometimes there is some spread between getting the date and getting Carwings - seems to be anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks.
It takes 2 weeks to get shipped from Yokohama to Long Beach. It seems to take 2-6 weeks from being unloaded in Long Beach to get to the dealer depending on where your dealer is and how long it takes them to prep the car for delivery. The farther away you are from Long Beach, the longer it takes. Since you're in WA, that explains the 6 weeks total from your dealer. Last boat (the Luna Spirit) with Leafs left Yokohama 3/10 and is due in Long Beach on the 24th. There is one other boat (Andromeda Spirit) which may have Leafs headed for Canada (due there on the 19th) and then likely to Long Beach (a couple days later) based on history. According to Nissan there are about 1500 Leafs in dock or on their way, so I assume there's a couple hundred on Andromeda Spirit. It appears that a couple hundred have been recently dropped off in Long Beach as well based on VIN numbers being reported (Hoegh Inchon and United Spirit have both been in Long Beach in the past week).
Now you're caught up.
My speculation is that all May deliveries will be satisfied by Leafs in transit. Or at least I hope so being a May delivery!