Online Print-Out Summary from Toyota.com. Good idea?

I plan on bringing a printout of the vehicle that Toyota of New Orleans (I-10 in New Orleans East) has in stock on their website. They show a sandy beach Package II 2010 on their website for $22,805. That's the best price I've seen on my first choice color. Assuming that the car is there and there aren't some hidden fees involved, I'll be driving it home sometime this week.

 

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If you noticed your URL window after you supplied your Zip Code
on Toyota.com, you'll see it routed you to a website with GST as
part of the name...Good Ol' Gulf States Toyota. Look at the inventory
of 2010 Priuses for each dealer near your zip, and you'll see all have
the same cars, WITH VIN's, shown as "available". Ask for All Dealers
in your search request, and you'll see all GST dealers (in your case, LA, TX, AR, OK, etc.), each with the same inventory. Not confusing
or misleading at all, eh?

 

It is a very good idea. That way there is no confusion over what equipment you want. I actually encourage my customers to do this. There is one caution, although it really doesn't come into play on the prius. Some models are built differently for the various regions. The chicago region wants their cars built a certain way, california may want them a different way entirely. So print out your "want" list, bring it into the dealer, and have him/her match up the closest car to it. It may require a loss or gain of one small item, but you will get pretty darn close.

Like I said, since the Prius only comes 10 ways to all regions, it doesn't apply to this car.

 

Well, that was a bust. The Sandy Beach that was listed as "in stock" has disappeared and now there is only a Blizzard Pearl listed as "available" (meaning it's likely allocated to another local dealer, probably Lakeside).