Totally agree with u.. prius is reliable.. we hv very high resell value for most of the toyota models here..
NO there is... there's a model through the toyota dealer.. price is high.. we don't hv the specifications that we want like toyota safty sense P... normally the thing we do is visit the toyota japan website and select the model(grade) we want with the help of Google translator extention to Google Chrome. Then we go to the japan auction website and bit for a vehicle (brand new and used both available). With this method I can get the vehicle within three weeks... second method is we can give an order to toyota japan and we'll hv to wait until they build the vehicle,it may take abt three months to get the vehicle... in both methods we open LC in a bank;means no risk... can u please tell me what are the local specifications that u hv toyota dealer told me the vehicle that they hv...it suits more for our country...
We bought a 2010 model year Prius in November of 2010. It's manufacture date was August of 2009. The car was indoors, in a large, covered garage, towards the back, hemmed in by a lot of other cars. It was very dusty, and there was a bird carcass lying beside it, lol. Thinking back now, I would guess it had been sitting there at least a year. We asked to test drive it because it was a colour we liked, and it was Canadian Touring model with nicer 17" rims (without plastic covers), LED headlights, and so on. Anyway, they dug it out and cleaned it up for us. The 12 volt battery turned out to be stone dead, no surprise. They actually tried to avoid our getting wind of that, had the car running when we came for the test drive. That ruse fell apart when we later needed to restart it, and they readily agreed to replace it. Other than that, we've had NO problems. One difference still: it was stored indoors, somewhat open during the day, but more sheltered than your case. I would look yours over carefully, do a thorough test drive, check all the tires, and the spare, the 12 volt battery, and watch the state of charge indicator (for the hybrid battery) during the test drive, see that it goes up and down readily and doesn't just hang around the low end.
Oh I see. That is interesting. So you can buy new vehicles in auctions and import it into your country as well as buy through your dealer? In Canada, the official distributor of Toyota vehicles is Toyota Canada Inc. and it serves the entire country. In the U.S., the official distributor for most of the country is Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A. Inc.. In the SE corner, there is Southeast Toyota Distributors LLC for several of the States in the SE corner of the US (North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida & Alabama). For some of the states in the south (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi), they're under Gulf States Toyota Distributors. Auctions here typically sell used vehicles (of varying conditions). Import of foreign vehicle vary by country (US and Canada have different import laws of course) but typically you can import a Canadian-specification car into the US and you can import a US-specification car into Canada as long as they meet current requirements. However, if you want to import from abroad (Japan, Europe, Central America etc), then it has to be used and there are different requirements (such as minimum age - In Canada, the car has to be 15 years or old. In the US, it's 25 years or older).
