Toyota Prius: Dealer Availability of Prius, any waiting lists?

Just go to autotrader.com and there are lots of them. No waiting.


com wrote: 

Just got a 2006 Prius after wating over 5 months in Northern Califonia.
The price was the full list price with no markup nor discount. I expect
that if I wanted one sooner I may have gotten it if I had paid more,
but I was patient.

Peter
com wrote: 

net writes:
 

There's evidently a fair bit of regional variation, then; my wife and
I recently purchased a new Prius in northern Virginia for $400 under
MSRP after waiting only about a week, and we would have been able to
do somewhat better in both respects if we had been willing to spring
for a more expensive options package.

Granted, we did get somewhat lucky, as the dealer originally told us
we'd probably have to wait a few weeks, and was able to get us the car
early only because the customer to whom they had originally promised
it had to drop out of the running temporarily. (They called us at the
last minute to say that they wanted to sell the car ASAP because a
delivery truck was on the way, with the number of new deliveries
apparently tied to the number of recent purchases.)

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<com> wrote: 

Generally fairly tight supply. By sheer luck I found the one I wanted
at CarMax in Laurel, MD, yesterday on a walk-in basis. A lot of people
had seen it on their web site and had phoned, but I was the first to
arrive. A friend of mine bought one recently at the same place after
waiting a for a month.

Davoud

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In article <220620061732308263%net>, Davoud <net>
wrote:
 

Which option package did you get?

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Davoud: 

Michelle Steiner: 

I think it's top-end. Is it #D or something like that? Nav, leather,
JBL audio, auto-dimming mirror/HomeLink, backup camera...

I wasn't interested in less and the guy who was on the waiting list for
this car wanted basic transportation and wouldn't pay for this $6890
option package.

Davoud

In article <240620060007123996%net>, Davoud <net>
wrote:
 

Yup; that's the "everything" package. I have an 04 with what was the
tope end package then. If I would get an 06 (and I was tempted, but
managed to resist the temptation), I'd get the package just below yours;
the only difference between the two is that yours has leather seats.

-- Michelle

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Davoud: 

Michelle Steiner: 

I would have taken that if it had been available. IMO leather seats are
not as durable as good cloth, and they add no value to any car I own.
Ditto a sunroof. Would love to have had my Avalon without one, but no
deal. Delighted the Prius doesn't have one; love the headroom.

Davoud