Just confirming: Audi is in the car business, right? I pre-ordered a short eternity ago, /love/ the car on paper, but I'm the same, my patience is wearing thin. With each passing day I think I could learn to love another, potentially lesser, hybrid - especially if they ultimately mess up the lease deal attractiveness relative to the i3, which I know has some strong residuals.
My dealer is doing his best (I think) but I can't get lease information or a delivery date with any confidence. The online lease estimation tool doesn't offer the E-tron. This is my first experience with Audi and it's been a complete information vacuum after the announcement finally came out officially that it would be in market from October (ha!).
I would have thought Audi USA have enough issues with reputation right now to be absolutely obsessed with not dropping the ball on the most basic aspects of a launch like this. Their current performance on everything but the car itself would embarrass a mass market player who had almost no brand equity to lose, and is absolutely not at the level I was expecting during the long wait to buy a car from them. We're talking simple stuff nobody messes up nowadays: get my e-mail address and at least keep me informed on where the car is, from the source, even if the news isn't good. If you hit a regulatory hiccup, tell me. Is this hard?
Come on Audi, get it together. I have loved your brand for ever, and I have waited a long time for this car. But if you ignore me for too long, I'll find someone who cares about my business and knows what they are doing beyond the factory. But I'll be sad if it comes to that.
EDIT: OK this was probably too harsh. It turns out the EPA and the IRS deserve my ire more than Audi (c'mon guys, we pay your salaries, get it done). Still hoping that when leases come through, Audi don't do silly things like not roll in the rebate. Not kidding that everyone else's EV and PHEV's seem to have strong deals right now...