2010 Prius Canadian Pricing?

The options that will be available have been out for about a month now. My dealer gave me a copy of the Canadian ordering guide listing the packages. I scanned all the pages and posted them here... 2010 Prius pictures by 2010prius - Photobucket
Still no word on pricing though, my dealer is still saying some time in May but I'm hoping he's wrong. I really want to see some base prices starting at the same cost as the base 2009!

 

Last Wednesday, my Toyota dealer had a meeting with the Sales Manager of the province of Quebec and got some interesting but disappointing info.

Apparently, the price list will be published a week or two before the launching of the Prius, scheduled for the 18th of June !

 

I live in Cornwall Ontario and I am also waiting for the Canadian prices although I know I can still watch the USA and import one if it is better. Time will tell.

 

I am just dying to hear the prices, not fair that we need to wait so much longer than those lucky Americans! My mind is made up either way; I just hope the dealer gives me fair trade-in value.
Soon that beautiful black 2010 will be mine, oh yes. :mullet:

 

It's pretty ridiculous that we have to wait so much longer for pricing when the actual delivery dates between the US and Canada are probably only 2 weeks apart.

I'm taking the Insight out for a test drive this week for the heck of it. It should only take one look at the smaller amount of space in the backseat to reconvince me not to buy it (baby car seats are hard enough in mid-sizes) but it should be fun regardless.

 

I finally got down to Honda yesterday. The test drive was for the most part better than expected. I went in hearing a lot of negative things and they weren't as bad as expected. For instance the engine starting up/shutting off when you inch along in heavy traffic wasn't as rattling or noisy as I had heard. The only time it hit too noisy for my tastes was on steep uphillsm then it was REAL loud. Ride itself was pretty comfortable, steering/driving felt like any other car.

Only other noticeable negative was that it was only 20 degrees (no clouds) out but with 3 guys in the car we needed the A/C on, so the engine was starting up before we needed to move to generate power for the A/C.

The price is definitely right on. Now it's just a waiting game for the Prius and its prices.

 

I'm liking the progress of the Canadian dollar lately, $22000 USD for the Prius II translates into $25847 CAD today. So much higher than last month! Not that Toyota will do a direct conversion but it gives me hope that the prices will at the least be on par with the $27700 cost of the 2009. :nerd:

 

Well, I just got a thoroughly depressing email from my Vancouver BC Toyota dealer. He says that all of BC is only being allocated ONE 2010 Prius in a shipment that will be arriving some time in June. He also mentioned that Toyota has not yet allowed dealers to submit their orders, but will soon. Please someone tell me that he's somehow wrong? One unit in all of BC? It's beginning to look like I'll be driving my money pit Benz for a lot longer now...

 

I'll definitely be keeping my fingers crossed that Jim Pattison gets it then, since that's where my deposit is!

 

I put my deposit down in March. At the time my dealer was able to log right on and submit my order in front of me. He said his dealership was allowed to submit 2 complete orders, the rest would be waiting list until in-transit.

I got an update since then that my car would start production the last week of April then to expect 6 -9 weeks. I was going to ask for another update next week. Hopefully June 18th is a trustworthy date (6 weeks today).

 

It's funny because when I put my deposit down at the end of March, my dealer logged on to some Toyota network and entered all my order details as well. Maybe the order was only submitted to Toyota Canada and not to actual Toyota? Let me know when you get your update from your dealer, I'm confused.
Either way, I think I'm going to have to learn to be more patient!