Long Wait for Prius (for me)

Husker4, you're right. We ordered our 08 about two weeks ago through our credit union buyer. Three unsold Prii were logged onto the boat due in port with 40 cars early week of May 12. Within four days, all three had been sold, no discounts were being offered at the dealer who got the deal, and fleet manager told me wait time was going to be 4-8 weeks immediately. Two days later, an online note said Prius MSRP is going up 1.8 percent. Eitehr the salesmen are very good at making you feel good, or we really were lucky to get what we got when we got it.

 

I waited six months to get what I wanted. It's worth it.

 

I did order mine in middle of January and going to pick it up today.Lot of waiting here in Finland too.

 

My brother and his wife went to Seattle to get their first Prius (they have 2 now). The wait was very little compared to local dealers at the time. Since you are willing to fly and pick it up, I would suggest checking with dealers in Seattle since it is the port they come in on.

 

holy cow...if i have to wait that long, it better be a 2009 model!

 

Boy, things must be bad where you all live! We'd been kicking around the idea of getting a second Prius (for my wife), and Friday I put out a request for quote on the Edmund's web page. Three local dealers responded, and the one that had the color we wanted just happens to be where we bought the first Prius. We went over that night, test drove the car, and signed the papers and drove it home. The only waiting was waiting for the financial guy to get to us (they were selling a lot of cars Friday night, I guess).

However long you have to wait, though: it's worth it!

 

The process in NJ was every unsold car that comes into the dealer is offered to the people on the list in sequence. Even though I "ordered" a silver 6 I had a choice of 3 cars and decided to take one which freed up a more loaded car for someone else later. Once the 2008s stop arriving you should be notified & given the option of a refund or a 2009. I'd stay on the list.

 

Hi Husker4,

Did you give a deposit to the Columbus dealer? If not, where? Other than Omaha, there is nowhere that I know of that would be considered "local" at all. Even Columbus is nearly 80 miles away!

I had talked to the Lincoln dealer (via e-mail and phone only), but he wouldn't/couldn't give any estimate of when my package #2 would be available.

I'm currently just outside of Omaha.

- Tim (not currently) in Hollywood

 

Hey All-
Check out Gatorland Toyota in Gainesville FL. NOT an advertisement

We ordered a 2008, Red, Package three, in Lansing on May 15th. We have been "on the top of the list" since June. We have changed packages, and colors and still no car. We do understand the allocation procedures from Toyota.

My mother in law checked Gatorland on September 10th and we are picking up a 2009 Spectra blue, Package 3 TODAY. It has been about 2 weeks. The sales staff (Rich Fisher and Ross Murphy) are great. They let us know where the car was and when we could pick it up. Rich called me yesterday and said he was touching our Prius..too funny. We paid 175.00 for an airline ticket and we have our car.

As an aside, we went to pick up our deposit from the Lansing dealer yesterday. After we got home (with no deposit because they didn't have administrative staff ) , SURPRISE , they called us and told us they had a package 2 we could have. There was no call until after we went to get out deposit back. Lesson learned. By the way, we are paying cash with no trade in so the transaction was not the issue. It was the dealership. To be fair, we have never done business with this dealership so I am certain that may have something to do with it. We have never done business with Gatorland either so.... it should make you think about the dealership.

 

I'm confused, what was your motivation to go through all this to buy a Prius? Status symbol, save gas, reduce foreign oil dependency, reduced emissions...