The Queue
 

So I intend to eventually buy a Black GTS in manual but I want to wait until after tax time when I'll have about 10 grand lying around for a deposit as I don't want to take out a loan over 30K.

I know at the moment the car is in high demand and there is at least a couple month queue. There was always going to be a huge initial surge but I'm curious as to what the wait times will be like if I ordered a GTS in say, October or November? Do you think the wait time will have blown out by then or is Toyota likely to get on top of the demand???

Don't have a lot of experience ordering cars that are so new to the market so I'm not to sure what the field will be like once the cars been out a few months. I'd like to avoid being :mad0259: and be more like :happyanim:

Most dealers I've spoken to expect a wait well into next year, based off other cars with similar runs.

You're best off putting a deposit on one now as you won't be likely to receive one this year already anyway.

Call around to a few dealers in your area and that should hopefully give you an indication of how long the wait is.

Give me a call mate on 0298288948 or 0406237776 and i'll give you the latest info. Cheers,
Andrew Smith, Warren Toyota.

P.S. The expected arrival of GTS Manual is September build for October Delivery but i personally believe it will blow out by a month or so in the next few weeks.

How long is the average wait now? Around 3months?

Newft86 will give you the best idea on wait times. I know that I am waiting until September/October and I had my order in some time. Over a week ago there were over 1,000 orders in the system.
If you shop around you might be lucky to find someone that has pulled out and jump in.

Guys best to give dealers around you a call directly you will be surprised

also there are quite a few listed on carsales.com.au under new cars so you might get lucky in your state.

if you dont mind a bit of travel, you would be a ble to find one in your state... just a matter of will it be your colour, transmission and model

Had a chat with my local dealer (Sydney Toyota in Waterloo) looks like a GTS order now is likely to arrive early next year, apparently GT's are much more plentiful but.... meh.. I'd rather wait and save up an even bigger deposit for the start of next year.

EDIT: He also mentioned the rumours head office may increase prices by a couple grand at the start of 2013, seems to think hell be able to lock this years price in though

Dealer Markup??? or Toyota as an entity will raise prices? are they allowed to do that, if the model has the exact same specs?

It's Toyota possibly increasing their RRP prices - there was an article about it floating around somewhere here.

This is just salesman talk to get you to put your money down. The AUD is a lot stronger than what it was when Toyota said they might increase the price - so I doubt it's coming. If the AUD falls below 95 USD or 75 YEN then maybe - otherwise probably not.

Even if the price goes up I'm pretty sure there's a clause allowing you to pull out of the contract.

lol, contracts are written so you can't get out not so it is easy to get out.

When the contract is signed its signed for that price, yes? They can't make you pay if the price doubles..

i looked at the fine prints of my contract and it said they can increase the price but you have the option to pull out if they do.

check the terms and conditions for the contract you signed.