Scion First 86 FR-S Winners Registry

[greenguy101]

Well, it's 8:12 pm EST and I haven't heard anything. Not even an e-mail telling me I was put on the wait list. Oh well.

[carbonBLUE]

i say if you get one of the first 86 fr-s's i think the first 86 owners should do a panoramic shot including everyone

[DaReaper]

nobody from NY yet??

[miata]

There are winners from California Florida and northeast. But the pacnw is getting dissed. That's because we don't have a good NFL football team.

[Capt Canuck]

Originally Posted by miata

There are winners from California Florida and northeast. But the pacnw is getting dissed. That's because we don't have a good NFL football team.

Oi! No badmouthing the 'Hawks ;-)
The Ducks have been making up for it for a while now anyways.
Population wise, places like California should have a larger representation, but there are lots of 86ers still to be revealed.

[Mr.Jay]

I hate all of you and Scion Canada

Please come back and give us a review of your test drive!

[borge12]

So, my dealer said I would get the car June 1st. I've been thinking more and more, and that doesn't seem reasonable to me. Scion corporate told me that the car is coming out this spring, and June doesn't leave much spring left. I wonder if they were making stuff up.

[chate]

My dealer stopped taking my calls...the latest voicemail message is their PR person pretending to have a handle on it..."i've forwarded your detailed information, like, um, your phone number, to our sales manager, the paperwork is being delivered to us quickly, by email...and should be here soon"

Uh...really? why doesnt scion just dropship the cars straight to us? cut out the middle man do it with class and give me a balloon tied to the side mirror as a bonus for gods sake.

[borge12]

Originally Posted by chate

My dealer stopped taking my calls...the latest voicemail message is their PR person pretending to have a handle on it..."i've forwarded your detailed information, like, um, your phone number, to our sales manager, the paperwork is being delivered to us quickly, by email...and should be here soon"

Uh...really? why doesnt scion just dropship the cars straight to us? cut out the middle man do it with class and give me a balloon tied to the side mirror as a bonus for gods sake.

I'm guessing they do it to handle the finance. Sounds like you got a bad dealer . Maybe call corporate and see if you can get a different dealer?

[SuperSnipe]

So they called me from Scion saying i was one of the 86 but never received any e-mail. Been in communication with them all day yet no e-mail with the confirmation number. They contacted the dealership to give them the heads up that i would be coming to put the deposit down. Scion corp. called me back and said the dealership had no idea what the program was all about. Go figure.

[mines13]

the soon to be first dealer created cluster f%^k of 2012 has begun. wonder how long before this ends up in the blogs.

[Korupt56]

Sounds like corporate didn't do that well of a job to making sure all of their stealerships knew about this program.

[Midnight Run]

I got an email this morning and there were several dealers called and left me vm in regards to this. what do i do? should i do it? lol

[ruskymx]

So it looks like the June 1st date has been told to others as well so that may be a legitimate date. I heard that date on Tuesday this week from a Toyota training rep that was at my dealership.

I did some "investigating" in Dealer Daily, which is a Toyota dealer's inventory system and information center for us to use. I was looking at January's TVO (Total Vehicle Output) which shows how my region, Central Atlantic Toyota, is ordering their cars for the month and I came across an interesting piece of info. According to the model launch/production schedule in there it looks like production starts in Japan in February on the FR-S. It didn't have an exact date or production numbers but it just said that 2013MY FR-S production starts in February. I believe it's probably around a month of transit time via boat (vessel) to the US depending on which coast it's going to. They will probably sit on the cars for a little before actually releasing them to dealers so I think it will be late April to May at the EARLIEST that the US will see the cars.

I remember when the FJ first came out I was talking to the truck driver that was dropping off our first one, which was the one I bought, that he said the vehicles were at the port for almost a month before they released them to dealers. The reason was that they wanted to make sure there was enough vehicles for all the dealers that the port provided vehicles for before they started shipping them so you wouldn't have a few dealers getting the car and others having to wait a few more weeks to get their first one. They want to make sure that all dealers receive their first one around the same time. I see no reason the FR-S to be any different.

I contacted our Scion manager about the First 86 program and unfortunately he has heard nothing from our Scion rep about the program yet. I don't know if it's because we were selected as a dealer for one of the "First 86" or that Scion is dropping the ball on this program through lack of communication. I really hope it's neither one of them, but I hope Scion doesn't turn this into a cluster**** either.

Can anyone in this thread tell me if you chose Freedom Scion in Hamburg, PA as your dealer? In a way, I kinda hope that we aren't a "First 86" dealer because when we get our first one, I want to drive it and if it's spoken for already, that won't happen, unless it's mine! I'm going to have my inventory manager make our first preference a Hot Lava manual if we don't have any pre-orders when the time comes to order them. You know, "just-in-case" I'm in the position to make a purchase at that time and don't want to wait.

EDIT: Uh oh, looks like the custer**** is what's happening judging by the posts since I started typing my reply....

Ruskymx