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I have an update for Minnesota FR-S members.

My salesman let me know yesterday that my car (a silver, manual, FR-S) is very near, but they do not have a defined delivery date as of yet. My car is in the Dayton’s Bluff distribution center. This is the major facility in Cottage Grove (you can see it from Highway 61) where railcars are unloaded and cars are then trucked to dealerships. My salesman gave me a printout from the Toyota Inventory Control System showing the vehicle status, and including its VIN and detailed window sticker information. (I see that the port added one accessory, a $95 trunk mat.)

I got excited, thinking my car was maybe only a day or two away from being delivered! But my salesman tempered that by stating that even though the car is physically less than 20 miles away, the Toyota system does not indicate a release date from the yard or a delivery date to the dealership.

So I did a little digging (I won’t reveal sources and means) and I have found out that as of today, there are actually about 20 FR-S’s in the Dayton’s Bluff yard. They do not have a date for shipping out to dealers, because they have been instructed by Toyota to hold the cars there until closer to the June 1st official launch date.

The dealer still has zero information from Toyota regarding accessories and prices -- the one thing I do want is to add XM radio.

So now you guys know everything I know. It’s fun to know our cars are so closeby -- and it’s starting to feel pretty real!

Cheers,

Dave