My call today to CS got a somewhat different response than others have reported.
I told the lady that I felt the out-of-order priority given to Jan/Feb orders had affected my car, and I requested escalation of my case (currently "Pending"). The lady promised to take my case to her "team leader," and about 30 min later she called me back, with this info:
My car was in production at the time of the earthquake, but had not completed production. They are the in process of re-starting production. They have assigned a VIN to my order. They are delaying taking folks out of "Pending" while they take extra care to keep everybody in proper order. I might get the car in May, but that was not a promise.
I received the initial email that first gave me a delivery date of "April" on Feb 8. It sounds reasonable that would translate into a production date of early March, very near the date of the earthquake. Since I did not get to order until Nov, if the Jan/Feb orders were just "stolen" from the Sept/Oct orders, is it possible that my car would NOT have been scheduled for production earlier if the mis-allocation had not occurred ?
On pg 23 of this thread, Leafkabob reported:
He said the paint shop "is pretty much gone," because it was in Northern Japan (non-Nissan he said).
Does this mean I better hope my car was painted before production stopped? I would think the paint shop would be in the same plant as the final assembly. I did see a report in WSJ last Thursday that a key paint supplier in Northern Japan had been heavily damaged. They listed major auto brands that used their paint, including Toyota and GM, but they did not list Nissan.