Waiting for a new Prius is torture

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skanDALE @ Sep 24 2007, 07:25 AM) [snapback]516805[/snapback]</div>

Looking Good!!!
Best Of Luck with Your New Prius.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skanDALE @ Sep 24 2007, 06:25 AM) [snapback]516805[/snapback]</div>

Great to see you are nearly there.

 

Congratulations on the new car!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(treehggr @ Sep 24 2007, 09:13 AM) [snapback]516832[/snapback]</div>

Oops, sorry for posting two replies. I got confused. Melody

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skanDALE @ Sep 24 2007, 07:25 AM) [snapback]516805[/snapback]</div>

Congraduation Stein on your new Prius! Is it a 2007 or 2008?
The color is Opal green, I wonder what the "Pine Mica Silver Prius Club" forum
will think of that name for their color? Lots of activity on that list.
Is that the dark gray interior we see in the photo?
Thanks for posting the photo show us the towing eyelet that screws in front bumper circle.
I was wondering what it was used for beside for emergency towing.
Melody

 

I'm so excited for you! My wait still continues, but I finally have a date! October 26th! My salesman (my dad) is on vacation the week it arrives. Doesn't that just figure? But I'll drive the 12 hours to pick it up a few days late, and maybe my parents will include a nice present from their trip to California! Is it strange to still want your parents to bring back presents from their trips when you are 40 years old? LOL!

I hope all of us getting new cars will post pictures. Here in the Cincinnati area there aren't too many Prii on the road. It will be nice to see some pictures of "my own kind".

 

Here is another take on waiting for your car to arrive: When I decided to purchase a Prius, there was a $1,500 tax credit and 2.9% financing that Toyota was offering on the Prius. Since I wanted to get a Touring edition, it was check out what was on the water (Toyota sends a report to its dealers of what was just shipped each Monday). The first 3 weeks were no-goes for a Touring #6 in Black with Bisque. The end of the month was fast approaching and there was no word on whether the tax credit was going to drop to $750 or the 2.9% money was going away. The Monday after the end of the month the first thing that was done was to call Toyota Financial Services to see if the 2.9% money was going away (fortunately it was extended for another 30 days); then checked the on the water report (still no luck) and the tax credit threshold hadn't been reached either. The next week, my car was on the on the water report and was delivered about 10 days later. Fortunately for me, the story ended happily; but the end of the month was a bit nerve racking.

 

Congratulations on your impending delivery! I can feel your pain in waiting. I have an estimated delivery date of December 15, 2007, for my choice of colour and package.

Take some pictures when you get it.

MAB

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(skanDALE @ Sep 24 2007, 01:25 PM) [snapback]516805[/snapback]</div>

I know the feeling, and I don't have to wait as long as you did. Four weeks ago, I was strucked by luck: I want a black Prius, and the only one Prius available on this side of New Year's Eve happen to be both black and to have my name on it.

Still three weeks to wait, though.

--
Thomas

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Mel in Mass @ Sep 24 2007, 01:45 PM) [snapback]516949[/snapback]</div>

Besides emergency towing (e.g., when there's no tow truck, or if the car is stuck in a ditch or lake), the towing eyelet can be used to tie down and stabilize a canoe, surfboard, mattress or other long item that you are carrying on top of your roof; or in skanDALE's case, probably to tie down and stabilize the car when it was being transported to the dealer.

 

Gratulerer med den nye bilen. HÃ¥per du har mye moro med den!

 

Ooooo!!! Shiny!!

Just so you know, that's geek-speak for Awesome!

 

Have you examined the delivery checklist:
http://www.vfaq.net/docs/pickup_checklist.html