Be careful with Fremont Toyota

[cycledrum]

Simply put, I won't ever shop at Fremont Toyota again.

In the showroom, they had a Prius with package #1, the lowest, not even Smart key or backup camera, but had heated leather seats and sunroof put in by some non-Toyota company ...

asking price? >> $40,000

Think that's bad?

I sat in the car for the heck of it .... the ergonomics of the driver seat were seriously screwed up. The had put in tons of lumbar foam such that shoulders do not contact the upper part of seatback at all and the headrest was maybe 4 or 5 inches away from back of my head.

[Spectra]

That's truly jaw-dropping. Can they really expect to get that price, or will they play the game of being so 'gracious' as to drop the price to normal levels when a customer shows interest?

My wonderful "economy package" Prius has none of any of the stuff you mentioned, and am thrilled with every bit of it. In Jan., I drove it off the floor for about 21K.

The sunroof might add about 1K to the basic price (certainly not jacking it up to 40K). There've been a few threads here about aftermarket sunroofs leading me to think that they may not seal as well as one would like.

[cycledrum]

The accessories listed driver lumbar support, but the aftermarket company messed up the ergonomics in my opinion.

Originally Posted by Spectra

That's truly jaw-dropping. Can they really expect to get that price, or will they play the game of being so 'gracious' as to drop the price to normal levels when a customer shows interest?

My wonderful "economy package" Prius has none of any of the stuff you mentioned, and am thrilled with every bit of it. In Jan., I drove it off the floor for about 21K.

The sunroof might add about 1K to the basic price (certainly not jacking it up to 40K). There've been a few threads here about aftermarket sunroofs leading me to think that they may not seal as well as one would like.