According to Timothy Cain @ http://www.goodcarbadcar.net
U.S. May Sales of Subaru BRZ outsold Scion FR-S: 271-86.

Of course...it wasn't a "full month" of sales and supposedly June 1st is the "official" debut date. Will be interesting to look at the June stats (and beyond) to see how many of each model are coming over during this initial "allocation" period which supposedly runs to November. I think I saw that there are over 900 Scion shops at approx. 1200 Toyota dealers in the U.S. Probably around 600 Subaru dealers. If each Toyobaru dealer got one 86 car per month...that's approx. 1500 vehicles/mo. Annually, that's a 18,000 per year U.S. production rate.

I think Subaru initially estimated annual BRZ sales @ 6000 and I think Toyota FRS was around 10K for U.S. sales. And then we heard pre-order sales in Japan were like what? 4-7 times greater than anticipated? So, they were going to up the annual combined factory production rate to around 100,000 a year?

I suspect they are focusing initial production on their domestic market at this point. I doubt they can build 8.3K of these a month as yet to reach that 100K goal but, I bet we have a delivery surge later on this Summer as they begin to get their logistics challenges addressed. My dealer told me they could easily sell 150 BRZs. It's no wonder we see some of the sorry @$$ examples of the dealer mark-ups at the moment. People need to be patient...and, you lucky dogs that have your BRZs and FRSs...you are envied for sure! :drool:

Yep they lying...they will get at least 2 to 3 per month. FR-S will not be as rare as the BRZ.

Screw it...i am solidly in the BRZ limited camp. Just trying to figure out where to place an order. I don't mind if I don't get it till Xmas. But the longer I wait, i might end up with a 2014 model.

Hopefully the VIP discounts will kick in, once production really ramps up...

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Got mine.. Toyota of Boerne. Was first in line.Met my expectations. Lots of fun tho have had it only 4 days.
Stock radio sucks. Have ordered BeSpoke tho I'm not thrilled with what I've read re:BeSpoke. Am willing to give it a try.

Update: My BRZ should arrive on Wednesday.

Nice. Any chance I could go for a spin with one of y'all before I buy one without knowing what it's all about?

Did you get yours at MSRP?

Yup, MSRP +TTL. I tacked on the extra 3 years of warranty so it would cover the entire time I would be making payments. If something breaks it pays for itself. If nothing does then I'm out the cost of a dinner a month, oh well :D

Met @Extreme86 at North Park earlier today when I picked up my car. Got a couple of pictures and went over the basics with my dealer and then I was off! Will post up some pics later tonight after I put more miles on her!

It's good that NorthPark is doing MSRP. I will order my BRZ Limited from them...I know the list is long though....hehe!

Sweet!

Note to Longhorn248 .... you might be able to pay for that extended warranty by "charging admission". Set up in a parking lot once a month, charge each rider $20 for a 3 minute ride. You could make some serious cash in a short amount of time!

Haha, I'll probably be willing to give a few rides at some point. For now I just want to get that first 1k miles in!

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showt...073#post243073

I ordered a firestorm FRS today and was told three weeks. Gotta love USAA :D

yes USAA is a good place to get new vehicles :thumbup: i will be using them to get mine.