Every living human being should be okay with the COVID delay. Would it be okay for someone's mom or dad to die so you can get your ID.4 sooner? NO
That is not what bothers me (COVID may indeed be the root reason for all of the delivery delays). (I am still on board for a FE.). The problem that concerns me and possibly others is two fold, lack of communication from VW, and reasons seemingly not COVID (e.g. emissions) for U.S. delays.
It is probably okay that they needed to deliver FE to the EU for the CO2 fine, but then 1) Why did they not account for that? (Or, tell us, hey with COVID, we need to adjust.). Also, 2) there maybe technical problems and delays too (chip shortage, software issues). Also, probably okay and reasonable. A bit of friendly update from VW or VWoA would go a long way. [I guess both of those could be COVID too, chip shortage, and software issues where programmers are out and/or cannot work together as efficiently as teams without office time]
I think the biggest failure is that VW simply does not communicate with us. Either they are just very secretive as a corporate culture, or they simply do not see us as significant enough to warrant any explanation. Maybe they are giving us far more than the $2k savings on each FE, and it cost them a lot more to make each ID.4 FE, and they don't understand why we are not more grateful. Or, maybe 4,000 VW buyers are truly insignificant and easily replaced; just another week of FE availability some weeks or months from now could easily replace any canceled FE orders.
I'm still looking forward to a FE, it looks like a reasonably good and fun car that would meet my needs. I am totally okay with COVID delays. But, if VW has the slightest amount of marketing or PR sense, all they need to do is to shoot us a brief (honest) email update once in a while.
hmm, I may have just convinced myself that most of the problems probably are COVID related
