As I've heard it put sometimes on ebay and the like, delivery of cars (by a service, not the approx $500 delivery fee for the dealer) can BE around $500-1000.... Depending on how bad you want one, if you don't mind thinking "I'd pay $1000 over MSRP for one of those" consider it as an option. I had NO IDEA the Prius was quoted 18-20 months in some markets right now... Holy Crap!!for example
make arrangements to fly to visit your relatives and drive your car back
The dealer I am working with stated that they get more cars per month because thay have sold more Prii over the past severl years that others in the state of Washington. This latter part may be true I see a lot of Prii around and have seen 8 different 04's in the past week. I see quite a few Classics around. I believe he said they were getting 6 a month recently and occassional extra "orphan" ones from other areas. I don't know how true it is but he did show me a computer print out showing allocations for the region and the dealer ship for the second quarter that supported the statment though I did not have time to study it.artman67 said:As I hear it allocations are differnt for dealer to dealer and state to state
might check out of your area
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make arrangements to fly to visit your relatives and drive your car back
Congratulations on your new car.jlmdutch said:It looks like I may need to search out a college level training course on how to use the NAV system!!!![]()
Yep!! That is exactly how it works. Four months after ordering mine I was told the option package I ordered is no longer available. If it took them 4 months to determine this, it makes sense that it was not an order so much as a preferance. This also explains why the dealer told me that if someone refuses the car, they go down the list until someone wants it. I kept thinking, "Who wouldn't want the car they ordered?" The ansewr: you don't order a car, you decide if you want what comes in!!wizardbill said:There really aren't any "orders". The 04 prius is done totally on an allocation basis. Each month, Toyota ships the dealer some number of cars in an assortment of colors and options.
The dealer has no influence over what they get. That is totally controlled by Toyota. If you are at the top of the list, you get first pick at whatever comes in. If you like it, fine. If not, wait for the next delivery and see what shows up.
That's how it works. Toyota is in complete and total control of the marketing for this car. Anyone who has told you something different is making things up as they go along.