No Solar Roof Package in Texas yet?

[hptsang]

I went to the Sterling Mccall dealership in Houston, Tx and they didn't have any with navi or the solar roof in stock so I couldn't take a look at it. I just called another dealership in my area and asked do they have a 2010 Prius with the navi or the roof that I can take a look. That sales person told me that they didn't make any Prius with the roof at the factory(maybe just for Texas Region). I saw and read post from other 2010 Prius owner with the roof package so I guess he might talking about just for the Texas Region. Is there anyone else in Texas got a Prius with the solar roof in their local Texas dealership?

[zenMachine]

The dealer I talked to said he had one coming in July.

One.

[ggood]

You were given major misinformation. The 5 state GST region (includes Texas) has just been slow getting cars, particularly the higher end models with Nav, SR, etc. The model V is not even showing up on build a toyota site yet. Give it some more time, and/or email several local dealerships to get quotes on exactly what you want (assuming you know! ). I just checked, and there is one model IV somewhere (or coming soon) with NAV. No sunroofs that I could find.

[Halligan]

I ordered a Solar III from a Dallas dealer yesterday. The fleet manager showed me a printout that he claimed was the reigion-wide "build order" placed by GST with toyota. According to him, from now on, IIIs will only be avialble with Nav, no Solar. IVs will only be available Solar, no Nav. When I told him I would look for a III Solar out-of reigion, He siad that the build order may change based on customer feedback, and accepted my deposit on a Solar III.

I hope he was B.S.ing about the order.

[IraS]

The inventory manager at Round Rock Toyota gave me a print out of the June GST allocation. According to this print out, there are 65 Prius IV's with moon roof coming to the region. There are also 75 Prius II's with Navigation and 158 Prius IV's with Navigation. This is out of a total of 1500 Prius's coming into GST for the June allocation.

So, if a dealer tells you that GST didn't order any cars with the moon roof or navigation package, he is not being completely truthful with you (or simply doesn't know since he hasn't seen any yet).

I believe Round Rock Toyota has at least one Prius IV with navigation in stock. I haven't seen any with a moon roof yet, but they should be coming some time soon.

The Prius V with ATP is also rare within GST (63 in the June allocation). However, I was told that the one I ordered will arrive at the dealer sometime between July 6th and 8th.

Just be patient!

[hptsang]

i asked to place special order at the Sterling Mccall Toyota dealership and they didn't ask for any deposit or anything. And the dealership I went today said they didn't place the order if they didn't ask for deposit. Anyways, the Fort Bend dealership I went to today helped me place an order for Prius III, Blizzard Pearl, Dark Grey Fabric Cloth, and with Roof package. As what the sales told me, he went to the Prius Trainning yesterday and they said all the roof package will be leather. So it might really means they only have Solar Roof for IV instead of III and IV.

[ggood]

Originally Posted by Halligan

According to him, from now on, IIIs will only be avialble with Nav, no Solar. IVs will only be available Solar, no Nav.

More misinformation. The solar roof package always includes nav. That is how Toyota is making them and noone can order SR without nav. Again, we are early in the inventory buildup for the GST region. It is possible GST could specify they won't order any IIIs with SR, but it's more likely they are getting the whole range of models and packages.

[ggood]

Originally Posted by hptsang

As what the sales told me, he went to the Prius Trainning yesterday and they said all the roof package will be leather. So it might really means they only have Solar Roof for IV instead of III and IV.

or GST could choose to port install leather on any IIIs with SR.

[Texas911]

Or the salesmen as usual are just spewing lies. Which is SOP for the GST region.

[zenMachine]

I don't trust anything any salesman says, and even less if they've allegedly taken the Training course. The one I talked to (who was supposedly "trained") didn't even know what those black boxes under the seats were for.