[keithwalton]

Yuck the PT Cruiser was one heck of an ugly dog!

On the automotive front Jaguar event but actually handled it properly. With the launch of the new XK, demand significantly outstripped demand.

When your car was delivered all depended on when you ordered it, they were built to order (and still are with somthing like a 6 month waiting list) and no matter who you were you could not jump the list.

When the XKR came out a few months later, some of early adopters decided to upgrade to the newer engine.
When they put there XK on the market with a few thousand miles on the clock demand for them was still so high (over a year waiting list at this time) that the dealership auctioned off the cars to the highest bidder. There was 5 or so cars that were sold this way and all of them went for significantly more than list price for a new one!

On the note of dell's laptop, i wonder how many have been made / shipped. I know they like to have them 'built to order' but surely there is enough common configs that they could build up some inventory before actually announcing the product to be on sale so that at least they could fill initial orders