I ordered 13th April, and got my car on 27th April! I did not pre-order. The N gods were shining down on me, I wanted a PB Luxury, and one was available. But I totally understand the frustration if you have ordered, or thinking about ordering an N, and you have to wait months to get your car.
Back in the 80's I ordered my first new car, a 1984 Honda Civic in red. It came 22 weeks later on the next shipment from Japan, and it was blue, not red! I was devastated..... Turned out that the red was really popular, the blue not popular at all, and the dealer got one blue, and one red car, and had two orders for red cars. So they told me they only had a blue one, hoping I would take the blue one. I cancelled my order, and ask for my deposit to be refunded. The very next day they called me and let me know they had managed to swap the blue car for a red one, and I could pick it up next week. Yay!
Long story short, about 3 months later I ran into a guy with a blue Civic, we discussed purchase stories, and he told the exact same story! Turns out he was told the very same thing. He couldn't wait, so he took the blue car, and I got his red car! He was SOOOO pissed!!!! Call it karma, but I almost wrote off the Civic on it's first birthday, $9k worth of damage on an $11,300 car, and they wouldn't write it off. I was 9 months without the car whilst they waited for a complete dashboard to come in from Japan.
Waitlists are always common for rare, exclusive and performance cars. Ferraris have up to two year waiting list. BMW M2 are at least a year, Mustangs were at 18 months at one point. Accept you are buying a car that is rare, first of it's kind, and honestly an amazing drive. Order now, and put up with your old car till it arrives, or order something else and move on. Life is too short to let a car rule your life.
As Bill will tell you, Hyundai is NOT doing this to piss you off, and no doubt even they are surprised at the volume of sales, and doing their best to up the production rate. If they are doing this shortage thing deliberately to keep the hype going, it is working really well!
