I received "THE CALL" today! :-)

Happy for you, Peppito. I had been surfing internet frequently, getting myself warm up, before the arrival of my Prius for a very long time. I got it two weeks ago.

 

I took delivery of my IV/SR/SC on 9/28- which was ordered on 9/8! Four month wait!?!? Yikes!!!

 

Oops- I err'd..ordered on 9/8 delivery on 9/24.

I can remember the excitement of getting "the call"! Congrats!!! What color?post pics!!!

 

Peppito,

Good luck, we talked a while back. I just got mine IV with SR last week. The car arrived at the dealer exactly 6 months to the day from my order date of June 2nd.

 

OK well I got "the call" via email in late November stating "your black prius V is due to arrive 12/10-12/15." Waiting is like passing a kidney stone...breathe, breathe ;-)

 

I feel for the poor guy whos pregnant wife says "honey, it's time" and his salesman calls and says "Your new Prius 2010 IV with SR is prepped and ready for pickup". Oh my gosh, what to do. Anyway, ordered mine 6-2 and another one fell in my lap on 7-24 so I have been VERY glad I got one as many others have waited for months.

 

Maybe Toyota is changing its censored deliveries in gulf states. I received my IV with solar roof last week Thursday, December 3, in Houston Texas. I ordered it September 10. 3 weeks of the wait was time it took from the ship's unloading to delivery at the dealer: it got stuck at the distribution center during Thanksgiving holidays. But "Peppito", the wait was worth it, I am really enjoying my red beauty!

 

yes, the USB/iPod adapter were already installed. I am going to get these as well as the BT tested this weekend when visiting the kids who know these things much better than me.
And I did get a lot of the tracking information, like the name of the ship etc, from my dealer. Once you have that you can find out where and when your car hits the US shore and your dealer can track it from there.

 

We were lucky with our Prius purchase. We decided in early August to trade my '94 Jeep Grand Cherokee in the cash for clunkers program. We originally wanted a Camry hybrid, drove a used one at one dealer but his next allocation wasn't expected for a month. Called another dealer the next morning, salesman said there wasn't a single Camry hybrid on the ground anywhere on the east coast. And by the time he could get one the C4C program would be over and that you had to actually take delivery in the C4C program, cars on order didn't count. Then he said he might have one Prius left if it hadn't been sold the night before. I told him to check and call me back. As luck would have it, the car was still there and it was a IV with leather and nav in barcelona red (talk about lucky)! I put a deposit on it and phoned the wife who met me there that afternoon. She drove it a liked it so we closed the deal, left the Jeep, and drove home in the shiny new red Prius. Best of all, we got $4500 in C4C for a car with an actual trade value of about $1700. SCHWEEET!

 

Who Dat?! Congratulations!

I never got a call.

I still can't get over how almost everyone in PriusChat orders their Prius. I shopped around a few dealers over two weeks, then walked into one dealer with 20+ to choose from, and I picked out my Prius IV w/ Solar Roof & Nav with only 2mi on it.

Is Prius that popular across the US, or do our dealers in Southern California just have large inventories?

 

When did you buy? Inventories are returning back to more normal levels after they were decimated by the C4C program. That must be a very high volume dealership for all of Toyota's models to be allocated so many.

Most people ordered theirs when there were no inventories. It was plain dumb luck that we got the last one at a local dealer in early August.

 

I bought my "incredible egg" exactly 30 days ago. I guess C4C could've wiped out inventory across the US during the summer, but I really wasn't shopping then.

So now that we all have our Priuses, let's get out and drive. See what you can fill up the hatch with - Christmas presents, a Christmas tree, or some Prius accessories. Go stimulate the economy!

:cheer2:

 

Prius's are very popular on the east and west coasts, not as much in the middle of the country. Here in the DC area you can not drive a mile without seeing at least one, usually more.

There's huge demand on the coasts (possible exception of the Gulf coast). Toyota will allocate cars based on dealer volume, not just for the Prius, but for the entire line. For example, if you have a dealer who sells tons of Prius's but not so many of the other models, their Prius allocation might be less than what they would like.