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Originally Posted by Ambassador Foolish
That's what I always understood about the process, so my dealer's update had me very confused. This made me think of another question though. If you place an order at a lower volume dealer, does this mean that even though you ordered a car, there's a chance that dealership won't get an allocation despite there being an active order for one?
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Yep. The cars will be allotted based on sales. The lower dealer will get some but not in the configuration you requested.
Really only an issue right now because of the shutdowns. Under more normal conditions the Toyota dealers will trade around to get whatever you want. My local dealer had to bring my Hakone in from Calgary for me but it went flawlessly since there were cars available to trade. Right now the dealers are holding onto any vehicle they can get their hands on because if not already sold it will be very quickly.
My wife ordered an Ascent in January and it just came in last Friday. When we picked it up yesterday the dealer said they had no less that 30 people stop and ask if it was for sale and a couple offer them more than MRSP if they would sell it to them right there! Said they could easily have sold 20 of them in the 6 days it was there.