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www.************.com you do not make your deposit right away. After all who register, 86 will be chosen. Then, those who are chosen, will get an email with a confirmation code. Then you can place a $500 deposit at the dealership you chose.
People talk about how it's being used to "hike" up the price of the car. Whoever feels this...umm...(sorry for this)...don't be stupid. Scion has always had a low mark up profit margin, and NO hold back (yes no hold back, check it on edmunds.com, if you don't believe me). Average mark up on a non personalized Scion = <$600(xD) <$800(xB) <$1000(tC).. The FR-S will be no different, because of the design and pricing matrix. The car is expected to be around $25,000. I'm betting that it's around $24,000 for manual, $25,000 for automatic. And I'm betting that that's AFTER delivery. Howa re they going to "hike" the price? People have been assuming that the FT-86 will be around $30,000, before Toyota stated that Scion will get it and price bein the mid $20,000s. If at all this is just purely marketing studies and see which areas in the US are truly hard core about the car. If you want the car, but don't want to do this, it kind of doesn't make any sense. You're just hurting your chances of getting a car sooner than expected.
BTW: Infotainment and Navigation features wiill be upgrades, not standard! There have always been 3 grades of audio for Scion vehicles.