Canadian pricing finally availlable !

All the news finally came out when I was away... but my Blizzard Pearl D Package arrived at the dealer last night and I get to pick it up tomorrow night.

My rep told me the "D" is looking awesome and they are all impressed with the leather.

 

Oh and let's not talk about the price... the all-in price for the D is a wee bit high, especially because I don't really want the Radar cruise, auto-park or lane keep assist... I'll force myself to use them.

 

I would love an EBH but have no where to plug it in. As far as the above quote goes ... look it the my MPG in my signature. If you don't have EBH you can still achieve some nice MPG

 

Canadian dealers not dealing? -- Montreal experience...

I just went through a displeasing evening with a Toyota Dealer in the Montreal Area .

I had a Prius Premium (something like the Prius III in the US) reserved since the beginning of may and the car had just arrived on this Monday. Tonight I went through all the staffing and wanted to discussed the pricing before commiting myself. I started by asking 1000$ off, expecting to get between 750 and 500$ off. I felt like this was reasonable as this is on a 29610$CAN Premium Prius with around 1500$CAN of accessories (EBH, remote starter, iPod kit, etc.).

To my surprise, I was told that they don't do any kind of bargaining and that the MSRP is what they always follow. They had to acknowledge the fact that this is not a Toyota Canada policy (as writen on the online tool proposition). While talking with the car salesman, trying to understand, I learned that he is not allowed to discuss pricing with his clients and reticently went to see the sales director and came back with their final offer: 220$CAN worth of mats for free. I was clearly about to leave and asked if I could talk directly with the sales director (who was available) and his answer was that I wouldn't get any better deal from him.

Being also frustrated by the way they "plan" their contract, I decided to break the deal, get my deposit back and leave (When I made a reservation/deposit in may, before pricing was announced, they made me sign the official contract form, as a mean to reserve the car, telling me a final contract would be made if I was to buy it. I then had the presence of mind to write bellow my signature "for reservation only". On this Monday they completed the same contract with the missing info, without me signing it again (I thought it was simply a draft for them) and they tried to use it while talking to make me think I already signed a contract and that I should not try to "go back" on the pricing .)

Having checked the market in the area few days ago (called few dealers to see in how much time they could get me the same Prius), it doesn't seem like they were willing to break the deal with me simply because many are in line waiting but rather as if their real official policy was: no negotiation, always MSRP. Also, they never talked about the fact that some else would be willing to buy the car if I didn't.

Are their others with the same experience? Is this a Montreal area thing? What kind of deal have you got?

I made I deposit by phone to another dealer tonight and have an appointment with them on next Monday. I'm not sure what to expect now...

 

Philosophe, that's rough man...you shouldn't sign anything with these guys...I put a deposit down for my base prius, I said didn't want to sign anything and made them write up an unsigned bill subject to me test driving and inspecting the car. Only then did I start negotiations on the msrp...as far as I'm concerned, the majority of car sales people and their managers are crooks....

 

I also put a $1000 deposit down in March to reserve my car. Like Technoratic, my deposit was subject to test drive and inspection. Being that it's a brand new model, I never expected to be able to negotiate from MSRP. Instead I negotiated on my trade in (got an extra $1500 from their first offer) and got the 2 sets of mats thrown in. Maybe I'm naive , but I thought that was pretty good for the first day it was on sale in Canada. I don't know if paying cash helped out or not?

 

My deposit was also subject to pricing (unavailable when I made the reservation) and a visual inspection.

I think I've read elsewhere on PriusChat about someone getting -500$ and free mats on a base Prius in Vancouver. I guess this set the starting point for me on pricing...

 

I agree totally not BC to the point I have mine ordered and they so much as said if I don't want it they will simply sell it to the next guy. I'm hoping to get a cup holder at least! :cheer2:

 

Ha, that's exactly what they said to me! No discounts, and I voiced some concern about putting down a deposit without even knowing what pricing would be like yet. They said not to worry, if I didn't like it, I could get the deposit back and someone down the line would buy the car.

 

Hum... I guess I was rough on the dealer, not the other way around?!

I'll have to adapt myself to this new context when I go to a new dealer on next Monday (another Grey Premium Prius is reserved for me, deposit made by phone, should arrive in about 2 weeks).

I hope I can still get away with my free cargo mat and side mouldings...

 

I picked mine up last night and although haggling was on my mind, I knew that it was pretty much pointless. I reserved in March and counted the days... my dealer did throw in the all-weather mats, so that was nice.

If you want a deal, then buy a 2009. I asked about them and there are a bunch of incentives for them right now (of course, but still Toyota doesn't normally bargain).

so far SOOOOOOOOO good.

 

I think it's pretty hard haggling with our dealers when they know how bad we want our cars. It's hard to seem aloof when we're calling them once a week, for months on end, with how about now, how about now?

Congratulations! Post up some pics when you get a chance. http://priuschat.com/forums/canadia...3977-canadian-2010-prius-owners-pictures.html

 

Wow. Looks like I did pretty well. I got $200 off MSRP, all-weather mats, hood deflector, (used) center caps, and two coffee mugs.

BUT, I ordered a black base and they 'accidentally' got me a black premium.