[450hp/tonne]

Anyone thinking fair trading, chances are you need to report your dealer, not TMCA.

TMCA would only accept orders from dealers on and after a particular date in time. Let us say this was the start of June, when pricing was announced. TMCA would have allocated vehicles to dealers for launch, with limited choice of grade, transmission and colour.

Before this, dealers (as independently owned and operated entities) would have certainly been taking 'deposits' and called them 'orders' ... all the while banking the cash and saving on or earning interest.

Come early June in the above example, when dealers can actually order, dealers could start allocating vehicles to customers. Here is the most likely point of getting screwed over, as all salesman promises may not be possible for the stock controller (who is just trying to make everyone happy).

So now the vehicle is 'delayed' and that is Toyota's (TMCA, TMC, etc.) fault, where there was no buy-in to the contract or promise from anyone but the dealer to you.

You should have known a 'per-order' was not legitimate, as there was no drive-away pricing.

If you waited for pricing, had an agreed delivery month and the had it delayed, this may well be the result of the above happening to the pre-order customers and your order is fallout.

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