There's no exemplary Scion dealer that has emerged, and if you're in a populated area of California you're positively boned, the cars don't get options slapped on them in low population areas to keep the MSRP down as opposed to the Bay and LA who jack theirs up to well over $30k because the demand is there.
Either you get a salesman's nuts in a vice or you go long distance, I was talking to a dealership up in Oregon who wasn't adding in bullshit, ended up getting a salesman to commit to a no option car in San Jose but I would have flown up and driven it down if I had wanted the car bad enough but I waffled on it. Was two words and an airplane trip away from getting a Hot Lava up there but panicked.
Sales have slowed, you should be able to call around and ask for what you want, if they can do the deal they'll try, most would rather move what's on the lot with absurd markups and will just forget you exist the moment the phone gets hung up. Not many will sympathize because with "pure price" and dealers hungry for sales elsewhere it isn't as bad, hence the sarcasm.
In any case, this should have been posted in the NorCal subforum, not the main one.