thoughts from leaf buyer

Dear Mr. Brian Carolin,
NissanUSA took around 200 orders on 31 August (mine included), your offices sequenced order taking very carefully to project those orders to the planned production output of the Oppama factory. Further your offices even asserted that there were a large number of LEAF cars on the ship docking on 20 December that would get to customer's before the holidays (statement at the delivery launch 11 December in Petaluma, CA.). From that point in time less than 50 LEAF cars, it seems have been delivered in the US. It would appear that VERY few have been delivered in Europe (10 at one single point, but after that?), and I don't see big numbers reported for Japan either.

Additionally there was quite a PR event in early OCTOBER with the beginning of actual production run LEAF vehicles at the factory there in Japan. It was a media event and widely reported.

Hence, it would seem that there have been something like 60 or so "factory production days" since the opening of the production line in Oppama, BUT there appear to be only around 100 or LESS actual customer deliveries IN THE WORLD of this model. Given the number of confirmed deliveries, this means that one of the best factories and most modern production lines in the world is only turning out less than TWO CARS A DAY?

"Dictated by caution" doesn't even half describe this kind of production output over that period of time.

How stupid does Brian Carolin really think we are? Someday my 31 August confirmed order LEAF will actually arrive, and by that time I will probably have 3000 miles on my Chevy Volt which actually DID ARRIVE last week.

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