Houston Meet Up (to See 2010 V)?

Given the slowness of cars appearing in Houston area dealer lots, I'm willing to show up at a PriusChat gathering to let people look over my car. I might even allow some short and gentle test drives. I don't want to just do this for 1 person or to have to arrange multiple meetings though. Someone else needs to take the lead on this.

 

Let's wait for some more responses, then we can start getting serious about figuring out the details. It would be great if we could get the infamous Dan to show up and give us some hypermiling pointers. I guess someone should PM him. I don't remember his handle though.

 

I'm willing to do it as soon as tomorrow afternoon, or we can put it off till next weekend. I note 1 person said they'd be in Houston next weekend. Would most people rather do it sooner than later? or wait a week?

Sounds like dealers may start getting their 1st cars sometime this week or at the latest, the following week. If we wait long enough, someone might be able to show up with a II, III or IV!

Fair warning - my insurance doesn't cover drivers under 25. I might be more comfortable just letting folks take short spins around a large empty parking lot somewhere; but I'm certainly open to taking people out on the highway myself.

 

Not sure I believe the age 25 thing, my wife may be confused. Won't really matter if we just stay in a parking lot or quiet back streets. Not sure people really want to wait that long, but we'll see after we wait for a few more responses.

Sexy good looks and charm? Actually, I was silly enough to fly up to the Chicago Prius Connection event. I found a Toyota exec there who knew the people handling the priority program and somehow got me on the list. THANKS TOYOTA!

Seems like we have at least 2 votes for next weekend, so we'll put it off until at least then. Let's see what other responses we get.

 

Saturday AM sounds fine to me. 10:00 A.M.? looks like there won't be all that many people. I'm centrally located, but willing to drive anywhere. One possibility would be the large parking lot in Memorial Park, on the south side of Woodway (where the volleyball courts, soccer fields and mountain bike trails are). That would give us easy access to freeways, side streets and parking/viewing. Cars should start rolling in to dealers any time now, so this will all become moot if we don't meet soon. Of course, GST doesn't seem to be getting a lot of Vs in, do they? Of course, for me, it'd be great if someone also showed up with a IV, but that doesn't look like it will be happening soon either. Somebody needs to find Dan's handle and PM him. Everyone else can either post here or PM me to confirm or suggest alternatives.

 

OK - Saturday, June 6, 10:00 AM, North Picnic Lane, Memorial Park. Despite the name, N. Picnic Drive is a park loop on the south side of Woodway, towards the bottom of attached map. If you google it, you'll see what I mean. There's a large parking area stretching along the south of side of this loop. I'll be the only Sandy Beach Prius there! Can any other attendees chime in or send me a PM, just so we know who's coming? And ignore the drop pin on the attached map, I didn't realize it was there. Just look for north picnic lane at the bottom of the map.

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Bump. Just a reminder that a few people are getting together here in Houston to look over and drive my 2010 Prius, Model V, with AT package. Looks like it will be a while before Vs are available here. 10:00 AM this Saturday, in the North Picnic Lane parking lot in Memorial Park (south of Woodway).