i just put down my $500 refundable deposit over the phone with a subaru sales person at walser over the phone.
subaru will open up their ordering system to dealers on march 1st, and walser will be allocated at least 5 brzs from now until nov 2011.
a credit check was required and i provided my info to the sales person. it's understandable why they'd do a credit check, otherwise anyone can order their own subaru and back out of the purchase. i asked him if my credit will be pulled whenever they wanted or if it was only for this purchase of the brz, and he said it's only being pulled for the purchase of the brz. you can take that for what it's worth.
for the pre-order, the sales person needed to know the color, transmission type, and trim (premium or limited) but no price was given. he was only taking down my info, and will be putting it into the subaru order system on 3/1. there's a chance that prices will be released on 3/1, but i wouldn't bet on it. if the limited spec goes for over 30k, i'm pretty sure i'll back down and just order a FRS instead.
when asked if they were planning to sell the BRZ above msrp, he told me that they were planning to sell at MSRP. hopefully that's true.
according to my contact, i'm #2 on the pre-order list at walser.
for those that who are curious, i ordered a WRB 6MT Limited model.
