The sales gal I dealt with indicated unique color combos will take longer to make it to production.
That's actually not quite correct. I will guarantee you that Passats have already been built with your exact specifications. It's just that VW makes no attempt to match up the already-built Passats to orders being placed. Instead, they seem to put new orders in at the end of the current production schedule, and ship the already-built units to whichever locations they were originally bound for.
So, their production process is geared wholly towards getting cars onto dealer lots and not to fulfilling specific orders. You'd be better off searching around for cars that are available instead of placing an order. In my case, I have three choices:
- drive 7 hours round trip to buy the car to my specs in another state (I have found one on a dealer lot)
- wait until late December for the one I ordered
- purchase a competitor's vehicle
Right now it looks like I'll be doing the latter.