Thanks for clearing that up. Still it could mean that:
1) allocations == all already placed orders by customers so far
2) allocations == all already placed orders + dealers reserving their car orders for future 2 years.
I still hope it is the 2), since going by the past rumours we should see about 4500 cars for the EU market. So far it seems only part of that number has been ordered/allocated, judging by how many cars were available in different countries for sale.
Im not 100% sure.
But in my understanding an allocation is something like an reservation. (Thats how its used in IT, you allocate/reserve memory).
Also the German translation of this word supports that.
So my idea is the following:
That factory has an output of (lets say) 10000 cars a year.
Importers allocate/reserve an ammount of them.
Every Importer has its own allocations.
e.g.
- 590 for Toyota Germany in 2022
- 2000 for Toyota Germany in 2023
- 150 for Emil Frey in 2022
- 500 for Emil Frey in 2023
These are not specfic cars like e.g. car number 350 to car number 940, but they are guarantied to get 590 cars, of the production until June.
The factory schedules the batches as needed (because of different trims and variants, LDH, RDH, euro-spec, US-Spec ect)
So Toyota Germany had allocated/reserved 590 cars for 2022.
Dealers can buy these cars for themselves (showroom, stock) or for customers until the number of 590 is reached.
If the allocation is filled with orders - = 590 cars are ordered by dealers - the specific importer can sell no more cars. -> The model is temporarly sold out for Germany.
All this is steered by Toyota to make a "fair" distribution between the marktes/countries. That means, the importers cannot allocate as many cars, as they would like. Because the factory output is limited. And because Toyota does not want too many cars in Europe, because of Greta-Taxes...
So the current situation is for Germany: all allocated cars are sold to dealers/customers.
Dealers dont take orders, but reserverations and put them on a list for the importer (Toyota Germany).
The importer has reserverd/allocated 2000 cars (that was a rumor) of the 2023 production.
Because its not sure, if they can produce all these cars, there are no written contracts with every custumer (first come first serve).
There must be at least two batches/allocations for the 2023 (or late 2022) cars, because some people where able to place a written order and were told to get their cars in mid 2023.
Because of our shitty EU rules, you cannot register a new GR86 after June 2024 and that menas, that the importers will not make any more allocations/reservation for cars produced after (lets say) march 2024 (needs 3 to 4 weeks on ship + 3 weeks to get to the customer).
So: The importers have allocated cars (each importer has their own batch/allocation).
Some of them are allready sold, some are not (*), because they will be produced later.
After these allocated cars are sold to dealers(customers), there will be no more cars for europe.
So the only cars, you can buy are the allocated ones, that are not sold to dealers, yet (*) and the ones, dealers ordered for themselves as showroom cars and for stock.
