3-25-04, San Luis Obispo, CA, 3 mos, Seaside, Op 3, 56 list

Date ordered: 3-25-04
Dealer: San Luis Obispo, Calif.
Time frame given: 3 mos.
Color: Seaside
Option Package: #3
Position on Waiting List (today): 56

The dealer indicated that Toyota were shifting a couple of assembly plants from doing Camerys or Corollas to doing Prius. She expected that our order in March would be filled sometime in June.

As my daughter's car gave up the ghost, I decided to give her our second car (the one that got decent gas mileage). So we went in last week to ask about the Prius and saw the list. Our name was #56 and "our" car had not even been authorized for assembly yet. People on the list who had ordered in January were just beginning to get their cars this month and there were a pile of orders behind ours.

At this point it is unlikely that we will get ours this summer.