During the pandemic, Canadians were told that to order a new Toyota Sienna or a Rav4 Prime may require between 3 and 5 years. This is from Toyota and both cars were in full production. If you preordered they would not even guarantee the price, and reserved the right to increase it.

It was so ridiculous that people would buy the car in the US and bring it here. Other people gave up and started importing 30 year old Japanese minivans — I see JDM minivans relatively commonly now.

As such an X year wait for a car isn't new even outside the dysfunctional communist block.

However I'm pretty sure Toyota will deliver eventually, can't say the same for the Roadster.

Exceptional situations should not be compared to normality.