Does anybody in GST who is NOT in the priority program have a car assigned to them? I'm trying to find out if GST dealers know their first allocation yet, besides priority orders of course.
We need some more news for Texas. I can't find a dealer to look at the car. The first on I may see is mine
From what my dealer in McKinney told me earlier this week, that is going to be common place on the first shipment throughout the GST region. They are expecting a Blizzard Pearl Prius II with the leather seat upgrade mid-June as their first 2010 on the lot. As of yesterday, I think it was still available.
OK - here's the info I just got on the Texas/GST region: "The two priority Prius vehicles will be the first out the door - hopefully! [NOTE: Wow, only 2 priority orders in a 5 state region. I'm picking up my car tomorrow. I guess greenbirder will have his whenever the truck makes it down to South Padre. They know how to treat priority orders here in Texas! ] Since the allocation has not released yet, none of the other vehicles have started processing yet. The dealers will probably start receiving their units next week. [NOTE: As stated in the OP, they waited until they had enough cars to distribute at least 1 to each of their 154 dealers.] The Build Your Toyota website probably won't be available until next week. They can't upload the tools until our dealers have been allocated the vehicles. The first vessels just started arriving ports around May 7th. Our first railcar of vehicles railed to the VPC on Friday, May 8th and arrived at the VPC on Friday, May 15th. The VPC and Accessory Business Development teams have been working on validating the LIO equipment before the allocation releases today [NOTE: I got this e-mail late last night, May 23rd.] The other regions may have allocated the vehicles a little sooner than us, but they could not have wholesaled any units before last week. Ultimately, everything except Tundra gets railed to the VPC. [NOTE: There's a Tundra plant in San Antonio, TX.] Anything built in Japan, ships to the port in Benecia (San Francisco) then is railed to the VPC. No vessels ship directly to the Port of Houston and haven't for many years."
Patt Lobb in McKinney, TX has 1 allocated. From the dealer: I have a Prius allocation!!! The first one appears to be arriving mid June and you can find all the details below. 2010 Toyota Prius MSRP Model - 1223 Prius II Model Base: $22,805.00 Exterior Color - 04T8 SANDY BEACH METALLIC Installed Options: $3,107.00 Interior Color - FB40 BISQUE / SAND BEIGE Total: $25,912.00 * Base MSRP includes delivery charge ** Prices subject to change without notice *** Please refer to vehicle Monroney label for final specifications and pricing
yep, that is the one I was talking about in my post earlier. It has leather seats, one of the owners rewards packages and some other option from port.
I was told my priority order was the only in the Denver region (by the dealer). I'm getting the impression there aren't *that* many participants.
Sounds like there are a few of us here all going through Pat Lobb in McKinney. It's discouraging to see that they added on a bunch of the options. I'm hoping to get my PIII with only an alarm.
Sure seems that way. I am shooting for a PIII with a solar roof but I may just have to settle for simply a PIII. But you are right, I have a feeling they are going to try to stick us with a bunch of random add-ons from "port"... If I hear anything else on a car I am offered, one I pass up, or one I am getting from Pat Lobb, I will pass it along.
Gulf States Toyota, the regional wholesale distributor for Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi. VPC is GST's term for Vehicle Distribution Center - the large center where they receive cars from Toyota, process them (including adding stuff to them), and then distribute them to the 154 dealers in their region.
GST finally updated their Build A Toyota page to list the 2010 Prius. The page even shows the inventory which is supposed to be available at the dealers. However, they are only showing models II, III, and IV. Either they haven't completed loading their data base yet or they are not receiving any model V's initially.
fyi for now if you search under III no cars can be located. Under my zip under GST, let the games begin.. 21 PII 0 P3 1 P4
Same here, lots of Prius 2's, 1 prius 4 and no 3's. hopefully the 3's start rolling in as i want the features of the III that aren't available on the 2 but don't want to the leather seats on the 4...
That is one beefed up IV for no sunroof... I think that P IV is going to be hard to sell. I looked at some of the II and they had a lot of them with random add-ons also. I found some that did not have a bunch of add-ons. After reviewing the first bunch of cars, made me think that I may be forced to eat more add-ons than I have in my budget.
