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Originally Posted by extrashaky

That's really not a fair characterization. Toyota created this situation in the US by hyping the fact that it would be a cheap sports car and going so far as to publish pricing targets that they couldn't possibly meet without cutting corners. People who thought it was going to be a $22K or $23K car were disappointed to see the base model at $25K. Then they looked at what the higher model got and were further disappointed to see that the car they really wanted was going to cost them upwards of $30K once all the paperwork was done.

Of course they could have said all along that it would be a $30K sports car, and people would have yawned and ignored it, and it would never have hit the market at all. But even so, it's hard to blame people for feeling a little misled early on about the price and options, especially when you see options for overseas models they didn't sell here at all.

Like that full sized spare with the lumpy cargo mat in Australia. I may end up importing one of those.

$23000 would've been incredible and alot of naysayers would've been shut up at that price.