2023 Prius Prime - official prices paid thread

These last are really bad news!
The MyToyota App (and MyT web direct link, too) didn't do a progress in the last 4 months. I am relying only on dealer's informations, last week. Will make another trip to them in a week time.
Yes, in Helsinki we saw a lot of TM3, TMY, Mercedes EQ, Wv ID4, KIA Ev6, Toyota Hybrids other than the ones selling in the rest of Europe (but also many Corolla, CHR and some Chevrolet Volt too) , and personally I think I never saw so many Land Rover Defender! Spy car game?
Will investigate last ships @KMO mentioned!
Regards
Alessandro

 

As has been mentioned before (Thanks to @KMO !) V/C GEORGIA HIGHWAY is actually heading to Livorno Port, expected to arrive September 3rd!!
Close dates for the other 2 Vehicle Carriers heading to Zeebrugge!!
They are coming to Europe, too!!

 

Picked up my Prime XSE on Thursday for the CDN MSRP of $46,475.20. Then minus $7000 in federal & provincial rebates and the value of my trade in. I put down my deposit at the end of May for a Guardian Grey but dealer offered me a Cutting Edge Silver and I took it.

 

yeah seems lots of us are settling for silver…i dont feel so bad about it now. Better to pay msrp than give thousands to a stealership for a color imo

 

I should have my nice new shiny & pretty much loaded up Supersonic Red Prime XSE in just over a week and a half give or take.…at MSRP.

I definitely would have settled for the gray, white or silver, but happy that I’m getting the supersonic red. Never had a red car

 

Found this cool pic on Facebook showing all the colors.

 

I have had three, I think, red cars and your Prime in supersonic red is, imo, the best color for this car. Second best is reservoir blue. Enjoy!!

 

Pedantic me says those are 6 of the 8 colors. No Cutting Edge silver, and no plain white(only available on the lowest grade in Japan).

Still a very cool picture.

 

That pic's from the Japanese brochure, and it's the 6 colours it says are available. I don't see any mention of plain white.

Z: Pearl white, grey, black, red, yellow, blue
G: Pearl white, grey, black, yellow
U: Pearl white, grey, black, red, blue

Red being +55000 yen (+$380), pearl white +33000 yen (+$230).

 

I couldn't remember offhand last night if the plain white was only available on the Kinto grade(U-grade) or the corporate fleet grade(X-grade) and it was too late for me to go searching for the answer. After double-checking, white and silver(Super White II and Silver Metallic/Cutting Edge) are reserved for their fleet sales.

https://toyota.jp/pages/contents/request/webcatalog/prius/prius_forcorp_202307.pdf

There was also this sheet that came out around the same time as the November 2022 reveal:

 

Hmm, does the designation of Cutting Edge/Silver for fleet sales reflect poorly on the color? The non-pearlized white I think is significantly less desirable than WCP.

I poked around the japanese website and could not find any vehicles with light interiors tho, which I think is superior to dark.

I notice the color is called Silver Metallic on that website, labelled 1L0…perhaps it is possible that Cutting Edge is actually a different silver. I guess one would be able to verify if they found Cutting Edge labelled 1L0 somewhere

 

I can confirm that's the colour code for Cutting Edge Silver. Here's the colour spec from my build: "Cutting Edge Silver(1L0)"

 

Just chipping in to say that it's become clear that my idea above about cars being held in Nagoya was total guff - the notifications from Toyota Finland are very confusing (I think they may have managed to end up one cell off in some table of Finnish translations!), and the "left the factory" e-mail from 21st August that I believed signalled departure from Nagoya was actually signalling arrival in Zeebrugge.

The first real batch of European cars, including mine, came in to Belgium on the Oregon Highway on 21st August, having left Japan on 18th July, before I ordered.

My car then spent a week in Malmö, Sweden (as is customary), and arrived in Finland on the Danube Highway today. Nearly there...

 

Just checked, Georgia Highway arrived today in Livorno (Italy), unloaded in 10 hrs and now again underway.
I wish i could have a surprise my car is there. By chance, just today i've written to my dealer asking why my order is stuck by 70 days at the elaboration state... unlikely, but if someone canceled the order...

 

It would make sense if the first Italian cars were on the Georgia Highway. That's the first Nagoya->Livorno delivery since the first European batch on the Oregon Highway (which came via Sagunto instead of Livorno).

(There have been two other Sagunto boats in-between - the normal alternation seems to have become irregular, possibly because of some extra cycle of Chinese pickups from Shanghai occurring on the route).

 

Yesss! There are also Michigan Highway and Columbia Highway which stopped at Nagoya port, under way to Suez. Will see.
Btw, Georgia Highway arrived at Livorno 3rd September and spent 3 days stopped at the external moorings. Now that she left there are another 2 vehicle carriers entering port facilities.
I don't know what time we will have to wait before the VIN numbers are collected from the dealerships here in Italy.
At the beginning of August there were no news, at the end of the month the dealer told me the car is on route to the Hub (meaning, they said, Livorno). MyT app and the web site are also freezed to the beginning of May!
So we have some chances..
Regards
Alessandro

 

Anyone know what ports or port do USA bound Toyotas get shipped to? Is there one for the East Coast and West Coast or do the vehicles get trucked from a single port across the country?

 

I know of 3 ports on the West Coast:

Los Angeles-Long Beach

Benicia (San Francisco Bay)

and Portland.

 

This text was from the fleet manager who sold me the 2023 Prius Prime Premium. I was asking why a dealer in Kansas got the 1st Prius with the Solar panel. I guess Toyota ships to different ports in NY, Gulf area and the West region.

 

We got an XLE 7k miles ago and paid $34k for it. No dealer add-ons. Just the sticker. I had been looking for a car for 2 years and every dealer I spoke to (Kia, Hyundai, etc.) was adding between $4 to $6k onto the price of the car. We got really lucky though. I thought we were going on a waiting list. They had 4 cars coming in but someone backed out on his and we were in the right place at the right time. Took about 15 days to come in and that is all we had to wait. They called us about 10 days into the wait to make sure we were taking the car as they had about 20 offers for it.