Can you recommend a dealer with good inventory or custom orders in the Long Island area?

Try expanding your range. Depending on your time and patience level you can expand that quite far...

There's a dealer in the Midwest that you could order from, take a one-way flight out there for $200 and drive home with the car of your choice...

Dealerships who move more units improve their ordering priority, dealerships on expensive land want to hit a grand slam every at bat.

Jerry Johnson at Midwest Toyota in Hutchinson Kansas is one such guy who'll accommodate out of state sales smoothly.

Me. I never buy in my home county because there's two bigger, richer counties north of me. More inventory, more competition, better prices along with selection.

 

there's no such thing as inventory these days. all you can do is keep calling and asking. some might take orders, but you won't get one asap unfortunately. times we live in

 

Locally, San Diego County, they have no inventory. I know of three dealerships with maybe six, seven cars parked on the lot, all sold waiting for pickup.

Toyota of Orange, over 200 new vehicles at the time of my post. Big dealership, richer neighborhood, part of a 3-state family of Toyota dealerships.

Dealerships that move a lot of units get a lot of units. It's Darwinism in the automotive world, the big dealerships get priority on everything. It incentivizes dealerships to make more deals, aggressively advertise and take care of their customers after the sale. Dealerships that are adding 5% surcharges on the stickers because they wanted to maintain their income typically lose sales, therefore they lose inventory.