2017 Canadian Prius Delivery

Seems like a long time to wait. I guess they're all factory ordered?

Well it's possible they're just waiting for a shipment so they ship all Ontario cars at the same time??

It'll take a week to get it to Concord by train plus a day or two to truck it from Concord to your dealership so if they told you today that it's at the Port of Vancouver and will be in Ontario this weekend, it seems highly unlikely.

But otherwise, we've heard from a few places that it appears to be factory-order only, even in Prius-friendly Vancouver.

For reference, it will take about a month to build and ship your Toyota from Japan to Vancouver. Then you add transit time from Vancouver to wherever you are.

 

Or wait for the midlife update. That's usually when packages get shuffled (like it did in 2012)

 

It's always going to be positive for someone and negative for someone else

But I know what you mean. TCI has a record of making interesting packaging decisions. (Yaris sedan, 8th Gen Corolla, 2nd Gen Matrix to name a few)

 

No, those are not midlife updates. They're just packages and minor equipment changes.

Midlife updates usually constitute changes to the exterior and interior, in addition to adding/deleting/repackaging features to keep it looking fresh. The easiest changes are usually different bumper designs which may or may not change the headlight design. Previously, taillights would change in the sense that indicators that had yellow lens became clear or vice versa. Sometimes they switch position with the tail/brake lights. Foglights would change in shape from round to rectangular or rectangular to round - stuff like that.

Interior usually includes different trim accent (changing between bright silver, satin silver, piano black, carbon fibre trim, changing up the wood trim style/colour, new radio/entertainment units)

 

Considering we’re on our 4th Prius (2005, 2010, 2016 and 2018 Prime), yes we would.

The Prius is larger and more spacious than the Mazda3 but obviously much less powerful. The Prius depends on your trim level as the base models are hard plasticky and the higher trims add some soft-touch materials.