Dealer Availability of Prius, any waiting lists?

Just go to autotrader.com and there are lots of them. No waiting.

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There's evidently a fair bit of regional variation, then; my wife and I recently purchased a new Prius in northern Virginia for $400 under MSRP after waiting only about a week, and we would have been able to do somewhat better in both respects if we had been willing to spring for a more expensive options package.

Granted, we did get somewhat lucky, as the dealer originally told us we'd probably have to wait a few weeks, and was able to get us the car early only because the customer to whom they had originally promised it had to drop out of the running temporarily. (They called us at the last minute to say that they wanted to sell the car ASAP because a delivery truck was on the way, with the number of new deliveries apparently tied to the number of recent purchases.)

Generally fairly tight supply. By sheer luck I found the one I wanted at CarMax in Laurel, MD, yesterday on a walk-in basis. A lot of people had seen it on their web site and had phoned, but I was the first to arrive. A friend of mine bought one recently at the same place after waiting a for a month.

Davoud

Which option package did you get?

Davoud:

Michelle Steiner:

I think it's top-end. Is it #D or something like that? Nav, leather, JBL audio, auto-dimming mirror/HomeLink, backup camera...

I wasn't interested in less and the guy who was on the waiting list for this car wanted basic transportation and wouldn't pay for this $6890 option package.

Davoud

Yup; that's the "everything" package. I have an 04 with what was the tope end package then. If I would get an 06 (and I was tempted, but managed to resist the temptation), I'd get the package just below yours; the only difference between the two is that yours has leather seats.

-- Michelle

Davoud:

Michelle Steiner:

I would have taken that if it had been available. IMO leather seats are not as durable as good cloth, and they add no value to any car I own. Ditto a sunroof. Would love to have had my Avalon without one, but no deal. Delighted the Prius doesn't have one; love the headroom.

Davoud

P.S. to my previous: Get your a** off this forum and back to CSMS and fix my networking problem. Believe I have a failing cable modem, but I'm not certain.

Davoud

My limited experience makes me think you're right. The last one I had worked for about half an hour after spending some time in the freezer, then it wouldn't lock up on the cable side. And I thought D-Link was good....

Mike

Ditto re the seat, which just get hot or cold, depending.... BUT I would really like to vent my Prius when it's parked. It's one hot car.

Sorry, but networking is one of the areas that I do not know much about. I couldn't even understand your problem, let alone offer advice about it.

I had a 93 Saturn with a sunroof; I usually used it as a moonroof, but sometimes I opened it part way, just to let air slip through. I later had an 01 Acura TL, and I hardly ever opened its sunroof, and didn't use it as a moonroof either.

Is there a remote start or something like that that would allow pre-heating/cooling using the batteries for the climate control like on the late GM EV?

My black Prius is an oven in the summer too, Jean, but the color is a definite advantage in the winter. Fortunately the Prius air conditioner puts out cold air almost immediately. BTW, I filled my car this morning. Had 560 miles on the tank with an average 54.8 mpg. Haven't quite achieved

55 but I'm trying.

I don't know how Toyota does it, Dave, but my Prius puts out cold air immediately.

call weathertech, window vents are 100$ for front and rear, they are out of dark but have clear

I believe the climate control is all electric on hybrid cars. Otherwise the engine would have to be running anytime the heat or AC was on.

I have a 2004 top end also and we got a 2006 with the leather for my wife at the beginning of the year. I personally think that the cloth seats in the

2004 are more comfortable than the leather (although the leather is not bad). We actually ordered our 2006 with cloth seats but the dealer ordered by the 2005 package number and we would not have gotten the navigation system. The car that we bought became available and was offered to us, so rather than wait for a reorder, we took it.

Kari