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Tracking the Delivery of your baby

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If your car has to cross an ocean to get to you, I believe this is a way to track delivery (taken from the pieces I could put together). It should work for US and Canada. Not sure what the Australian lines are.

Once your spec is firm, your dealer should give you a car build schedule. Find the date of the German exit from their port, probably Emden. You probably want to get an updated schedule as the date gets closer. Schedules can change and what you have in January could be different in a couple of months.

Go here. On the right side select your trade route (e.g., USA).

For USA and, I think, Canada, select VW Logistics

A PDF schedule will come up. Ask your dealer for the boat name. Look at the schedule column for the date that boat leaves the dock. For example, today it looks like the Gracious Ace leaves Emden 1/30 and docks in Halifax Canada and then RI. US west coast cars might go to Houston.

Go here. While the ship is near land, you can track it. Not sure how to track it in the open ocean because it uses a different system. There are also apps for smart phones that can track it.

Once the ship is back near land, you can track it until it docks.

Once PDI is done, you can start looking at all the car haulers on the road near you and hope you car is on one of them :)

I hope this helps somebody interested in tracking delivery of their car (which is different from tracking their car ;).

You can also just google this and find lots of entries where people tracked their delivery.

edit: 21 Nov 2022. my.porsche.com might be able to allow some form of tracking
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28feb14 I just checked the VW Logistics and see the Asian Chorus is the only ship heading for San Diego in the time frame. It will be in Emden on 10 March for pickup. My car (and a load of west coast brothers) arrives in San Diego on 7 April. Can't wait!
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They line up more or less; yes, 28 Mar is the date for exit Emden, and 2 May is the date for arrive San Diego. There is only one ship that meets these dates. Perhaps there will be another showing up later? My dealer said "don't be surprised if the car arrives in late April" Just putting 2 and 2 together...
No new ships from Emden to San Diego, although the Asian Chorus is delayed a day (AR Emden 11 Mar, AR San Diego 8 Apr). Seem very unlikely at this late date that another ship would materialize... Still looks like West Coat "launch cars" are arriving in San Diego on 8 Apr.
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Looks like LYRA LEADER will have our west coast cars; due in San Diego 28 Apr. Interesting that Asian Chorus dropped off the radar...
Visited my dealer today; he gave me the VIN (!! it's a real car !!) and the updated schedule from PAG. The car was delivered to the port at Emden on 14 Mar. Now the schedule (almost) lines up with the Lyra Leader: PAG shows "Exit Emden" on 21 Mar, but Lyra Leader won't be in Emden until 2 Apr. But the arrival dates in San Diego are only 3 days apart (25 Apr v. 28 Apr) They are now showing Dealer Inventory on 16 May (guess we really do have to wait until Launch Day)
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Finally got dealer confirmation that my car (and all the other west coast launch cars) are on the Lyra Leader due in San Diego on 28 Apr
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The Lyra Leader is in San Diego tonight unloading our west coast Macans. Counting hours now!
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