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Originally Posted by Zgrinch
Putting a deposit down is going to have zero impact on the initial price, but may help to get you "in line" given the potential supply issue. Again, I am not a Scion historical pricing expert, so take my comments in that vain, but my bet is they will start with a higher price and will only lower prices when supply levels with demand. Someone prove me wrong with historical evidence of Scion's initial vs long term "pure" pricing on high demand cars in their initial year.
Use common sense - if Scion knows that the demand for this car is high, why would they lead with 19-20k in "pure pricing" and sell "xx" number of limited production cars in the first year, when they could sell the same number of cars for 25-27k given demand...... hello ...McFly.......... 
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Scion version in the first 8 months of release will be between 24-27k, and the Subaru version 1-2k higher based on the fact they do not have to deal with "pure" pricing.  |
My idea in putting a deposit down was not to have any bearing on the price, but to get in line if this will be as low production for the first year as others on here have discussed. We really don't know how Scion will play this because there hasn't really been a highly anticipated car to launch for them like this one is. I have zero experience or info about their pure pricing scheme, but your theory matches with basic macroeconomics supply and demand, which is unfortunate for people like me who really need this car to come in at the $22-24k area.