Prius Prime - official prices paid thread

Truly surprising, Mr. Bisco. This lack of incentives coupled with quite staggering electric costs, make you wonder what the Helms Bread these guys are thinking!! And on the other hand, I hear say how terribly California treats its taxpayers!! Humanity does suffer from Optical Rectitis!! (When the nerves between your eyes and nether regions get crossed up, and you get an "offensive" view on life!!)

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It looks Toyota is continuing the cash incentive deal on 2017 (largest in NY/NJ at $3500 and in NE #3125) at least another month till 10/2. This means, there is no 2018 arrival at least another month?

New Car Deals | Local Toyota Deals, Incentives & Special Offers

 

I tried the local toyota deals link that SalmanderKing included above, but the "details" button on the website doesn't pull up any details. Doesn't list the expiration of the special. I hope it is extended to 10/2. Dealer websites I checked don't list the cash incentive that was included last month.

 

You can try this site too. It clearly shows the deal has been extended to 10/2.
Offer Details | Local Toyota Offers | GreaterNY.BuyAToyota.com

 

Not seeing the incentive on the CT dealer I was working with for a while either.

 

So my wife really liked the Prius Prime was going to pull the trigger late Sept so we could give the "old" 2014 Prius PiP to our son when he comes to visit. We keep an eye on Toyota cash back because we got $4650 cash back on our 2013 Prius PiP. When we saw the Toyota cash back had crept up to $3500 we started planning on working with Burdick Toyota near Syracuse NY to get it. After talking about it over the weekend we called ahead with her demands (Prius Prime Advanced, Blue magnetism color, Illuminated door sills, and carpeted mats) and found out they had just sold THAT one, and there was no more in regional inventory. I called around and found out that THAT one also just sold 50 miles away. So we put the REFUNDABLE (I made sure to bring up refundable in all caps with sales rep) 500 deposit and they told Toyota what we wanted and it came into port and got lost. Then somebody that had been waiting on a Blue Magetism Advanced Prime changed their mind on the color as it was being delivered to our dealer so we got it. Here are the details of the deal that I'm quite happy with, mainly because I went through the Internet sales department so the sales pressure/hassle was minimal. This was the least expensive Prius of our 4 you can see in my tag line.

Prius Prime Advanced 31486
Protection Package. 409
All weather Floor mats. 248
Carpet mats +
Illuminated door sills 462
Delivery Proc & Hand 895
Tax. 2680
Fees. 97
Marketing/Ad regional $. ?
State Tax Rebate. -1100
Toyota Cash Back. -3500
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Total out the door. 31677
Federal tax credit -4500
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Total after 2017 tax credits
Collected (April 2018). 27177

Melanie is loving her first day in her Prime. Says it handles better, looks more classy, is quieter and has the right EV range for her and her daily commute (16 miles round trip with no charging at work)

 

congrats! all the best.

 

Very nice! I’m glad you were able to finally get the color and options you wanted! Melanie will have no problem at all with her work commute. Even when it is cold, she will not use one teaspoon of gas to get to and from work. In 65-70 degree weather with no climate control on, I am consistently getting more than 34 miles on a single charge and that number continues to climb as I get better and better at driving it.

This is our 3rd Prius and the absolute best one yet. We are having so much fun with this car.

Congrats again and thanks for sharing your story!

Bryan

 

What's the best discount folks have been getting in the Pacific NW (OR, WA, ID). So far I found an OR dealer offering $1405 off...any thing better out there in the Pacific NW?

 

Put your 2010 on craigslist at 5,500 it wil lbe go

Put your car on craigslist for 5,500 it will be gone in a day.

 

They can still easily sell yours for 10k on the lot. 4,500 is lowball.

 

hi everyone. I'm looking for a a great deal on a prime too!

Hurricane Harvey killed my 2011 Prius five w/Adv tech package. But Geico was nice enough and gave me $12,700 for it. That beats trading it in!

I wanted a Advanced but after looking at the monthly payments, I really should get a premium. (even after all of the incentives) I can't afford a $450-$500 monthly payment!

BTW the adv tech package on my prius was a $5008 option in 2011. That could be compared to the $4000 upgrade from a premium to an advanced. The adjuster that went over my car missed that my car had the adv tech package. So he added it to my claim.

the adv tech package only added another $286! I'm wondering how will the advanced model hold value. Will it be worth $286 in the future!

Anyway, I have read the last few pages of this thread and I know NY<NJ and CT has the $3500 incentive, but how do I get even more off the price of a prius premium. I saw Chazz8 receive another $1100 NY State rebate.

Do I have have to qualify for any of these incentives? i.e. reside in NY, NJ, CT? I read the CA incentive states I need to live in CA!

I don't have any vacation days at work saved up so flying to these states most likely won't work. I'll need to ship the car to myself for $600-800. I would have loved to fly there and drive it home. but that Is a really long road trip back to Texas!!!

I've never shipped a car bc of cost, but I read others have paid $1000 for a covered transport carrier? Is the covered necessary? I mean I see cars all of the time transport from dealer to dealer in a regular transport...

which dealership so far has the best OTD price, with the least amount of fees? where should I buy from?

which salesman should I call tomorrow?

 

I just used an online payment estimator based on 60 months 3% APR interest and financing $18,800 you would have a payment of $338 a month. The $18,800 financed is based on your putting the $12,700 that you received for your previous Prius and $3,500 cash rebate from Toyota given on the East Coast. I used a conservative $35,000 price for an advanced Prius Prime. Good luck!

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Picking up my Prius Prime Plus in the Coachella Valley tomorrow (they had to bring it from San Bernardino after I declined the fancier model on the lot for $1500 more).

list price $28,419
theft deterrent package $995 (couldn't find a car without it)
fees $420
taxes $2286
paid $31,120

less than my 2014 V; more than my 2004 gen two

 

congrats! you haven't deducted state and fed credits yet.

 

Don't you just hate that BS. It's not like the insurance co. will give you any additional discount for having that additional item either at least my AAA said it's already "built in" the base pricing.

 

Because of the theft deterrent package you only saved about $500 vs getting the Advanced.

 

Do you know about State credits in CA?

I figured with the Fed tax credit it came in at only about $2K more than the Prius two I was considering; since my wife knew I have wanted a plug-in for a decade she said to go for it. If I get even more back she'll be thrilled.

 

i could be wrong, but i thought $1,500. it may depend on city/town/county/utility. also, some folks out there get free L2 chargers and other perks.

 

"New member" here, though I was very active under another username many years ago due to having bought a 2001 in 2000. (I might have been PriusMan or MrPrius, something like that.......my initial tries to remember and log on didn't work, so I just signed up new as OptimalPrime)

Also have a 2005 trim level 6 with 226k on it which I bought in March 2013 with 151k on it.

Anyway, as a MA resident who enjoys a purchasing challenge, I set about to buy a 2017 Prime as cheaply as possible. I got online quotes from about 30 dealers in MA, RI, CT, and NY. Not NH, due to it not being a CARB state.

Hammered a few of the dealers to match the best other ones, but that never seemed to get me anywhere, so I ended up at the dealer with the best original quote. Namely, the same huge dealer (Boch Toyota) in Norwood, MA where I'd bought the 2001 Prius for full MSRP in October 2000, when "only MSRP" was considered a great deal.

Here is the result, purchased on September 13, which I'm pretty ecstatic about:

$28,219 MSRP (just the Prius Prime Plus, delivery, and the $224 floor mats)
-$3125 rebate in Toyota's Boston region (MA/RI etc)
-$2787 dealer discount quoted by clicking online to get best ePrice or whatever
-$150 additional dealer discount ("extra savings" offered by email, apparently sent when I hadn't bought about 10 days after quote)
+$429 dealer doc fee
+$96 dealer-installed, unwanted, Toyota wheel locks (the only thing I couldn't have my way about, really)
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$22,682 out the door car price, excluding sales tax (6.25% of $22,253); $135 for title and registration; and $35 for inspection sticker

So that's an actual $5537 off MSRP in my book, plus free Toyota wheel locks.
($3125 rebate, and equivalent of $2412 dealer discount, free wheel locks, and $0 dealer fees)

$24,270 total out the door price including MA sales tax, MA title, new MA registration/plates, and MA inspection sticker.

None of the above considers that I'm also getting back an additional EV rebate of $1500 from the state of MA (for MA residents only). I've already sent the paperwork in for it, online. The fund is dwindling....I'd project it's gone in a month or so if they don't replenish it.

And of course there's that $4500 federal tax credit we all know about......these things can add up to getting an amazing car cheap!


ADDITIONAL NOTES about the price quotes, purchase process, etc.

Their actual initial quote said "as low as $22,307" but that excluded the $429 doc fee and $96 seemingly mandatory wheel locks.
I was surprised that it didn't involve additional monkey business, like subtracting off additional rebates (military etc) which didn't apply.
But it was a legit quote, as these quotes go.
So, it was by far the lowest price I got.

Most other dealers' prices were similar to each other, and much higher.
A couple of dealers in RI (Tarbox and Balise) were somewhere inbetween, essentially tied for a distant silver medal on price.

Boch didn't budge on the doc fee or on not forcing me to take wheel locks
....so I treated the fee+locks as essentially a $525 dealer fee, which is about average in MA. RI dealers had fees around $200.
One CT dealership considered matching Boch, but never actually came close.
It would have been sweet to get $375 more rebate, but I'd rather save tons more than that on price.

On purchase day, as luck would have it, an emailed offer for an additonal $150 off "on new inventory only" arrived from them in my inbox, literally a few hours before I was going to go buy it anyway. Yahtzee!!

At the dealership, they made 2 strong attempts to claim the extra $150 off offer didn't apply to my quote. So I just kept reading them the wording of their own emailed offer to me (sent to me that very morning) over and over, and I literally tore up the signature-ready deal paperwork which didn't take it off. Third time around, they subtracted it, and the deal was done.

One other hassle is worth mentioning. I'd told them at every step of the process that I already had a credit union check in hand for a "not to exceed" amount higher than the cost of the car, from a specific credit union. Not until AFTER I SIGNED the deal, did the finance manager let me know that they don't take "draft checks" like that (with both me and a "fill in the blank, put name of a dealer here") as payees, only cashier's checks made out only to them. Basically a ploy/play to let them get the financing business too by "seeing if Toyota Motor Credit could match it", unless you're willing to run to the bank and trade in the one check for another. But the good news is that when I told them I'd just come back the following day rather than let them pull my credit and maybe match it, they offered to beat it. So I saved 0.04% off the interest rate on a 75-month loan, hahaha. The credit union said that only a very few dealerships refuse the kind of check they gave me, but that they'd known Boch to be one, and would have told me that, if they had any idea I might be shopping there (Boch is 35 miles from me). Because the credit union rate was based upon automatic payments from my credit union account (which I have never used in its 25 years except for putting money in to pay car loans) the Toyota loan is actually easier for me. So while I didn't want to sell out my credit union too easily, I knew it would be easier to just pay a regular car loan, and was happy to end up with Toyota Motor Credit.

Overall, I am really happy with the deal and don't mind having sat at the dealership longer than what my true preference is, to get the car I wanted, and get the extra $150 I'd been promised.

The car is beautiful. Classic silver (just like my 2005) with black cloth interior. While the car didn't have enough charge to go into EV mode at time of delivery (they were charging someone else's, in line for delivery) I still got a trip average of 82.0 mpg in HV Eco mode on the drive home from the dealership, on an interstate at rush hour, varying from stop/go to 60mph. Probably not the best time to first try out radar cruise, but it was pretty amazing, and I did learn quite a bit about it, and arrived home intact.

Now I'm hoping that the car is as perfect as my previous Toyotas, and as fun to work on, so that I never have to go for service at any dealership/stealership. I'm probably not even using the free 2 year 25,000 mile free routine service unless I can think of a good reason to. The cost of synthetic oil is definitely not a good enough reason, plus I have a good supply of it already from owning a 2005. I already bought 10 genuine Toyota oil filters for the Prime for $40 online. Plus the $20 tool to open the filter housing.