NW Prospective Owners Roll Call

[Runswithknives]

FRS in Raven should be heading to me in Anchorage, AK early to mid June!

[Damnquick]

Otay from Olympia here.
Got a few cars in the garage/shop.
Looking to unload my FJ cruiser for a BRZ Limited...maybe

EDIT: Scratch that, as much as I want one of these cars the rumors are the STI will be releasing mid summer.
If it has close to what the JDM TRD package has, then It stands to save you insane amounts of money in upgrades I planned on buying(BBK, AERO, stiffening, etc..)

[Drift-Office]

Originally Posted by Damnquick

Otay from Olympia here.

Otay! How's it going mang? How have you been doing?


Bob

[Damnquick]

Doing good man.Lol work, work, work...you know how it goes.
How's the shop doing? Any big plans for the FRS?

[FT86Katsu]

I'm Chad
22
Drive a 2008 coobalt couple and a mitsubishi evolution 1

Pretty darn sure I'm gonna get a white 6spd M/T fr-s!

[DarrenDriven]

virtual_bob, did you get your car yet?

[Drift-Office]

Originally Posted by DarrenDriven

virtual_bob, did you get your car yet?

Hmmmm. Don't get me started. The short story : NOT YET.

So last week, word had it from you and another person was that Scion wasn't releasing theirs till the 28th - I called and had verified with my dealership to see if that was true. Also, 2 weeks back, I noticed on the NW Roll call list that mine was the only one that was on the 20th, a date which I was already dubious about since that landed on a Sunday. I didn't get to the call when they returned it but they did leave a voice mail to tell me that "I don't know who you talked to, but our SCION rep still maintains a delivery date of the 18th. You should be getting yours within days of that since it all depends on the delivery driver and your car is marked "HOT" since it's the first to be pre-sold at our dealership."

I had previously given up a spot for a 6MT Suby 12 days ago as I told the SCION dealer that since they've been working with me to get this ASAP, I'll do the right thing instead of just dropping them and going with the Suby. BIG Mistake!

So when this last weekend rolled around - I was asking for updates, and they had none to give me other than "It's in Portland" where I assume it's been for weeks - and couldn't get me a FIRM ETA. I mean which dealer doesn't have a manifest or knows when they're getting a delivery and what they're getting up to the day of the delivery? Do dealers just get random customer's cars and then call up the customer and say, "Hey, your car is here." I seriously doubt that to be the case.

You'd think for the FR-S / BRZ, everyone would be all over it. Maybe not, and apparently not that this dealership - even though they told me that they're the TOP SCION dealership in this state, a claim that I highly doubted based on the activities that I saw while dealing with them.

Then I call today, talked to the New Car Manager and he tells me that SCION switched it up on him, and that it won't be available till the 28th or 29th and that this information was only given to him on WED (16th) last week. Yet, when I asked him why when I called on Thrus thru Sat to get updates, the sales person had no idea of this?! He told me he hasn't spoken to my sales person as of yet. That's 6 day old information with 3 working days for him to convey that information...

Apparently, even if your office is 20 feet from the said salesperson, it's near impossible in the 8 hour workday to see or get word to them that a pre-ordered car has purportedly changed delivery dates. That single glass door must be really hard to get thru to... I verified that the deposit is 100% refundable and requested them to call me if and when it does come in.

You'd think that this was a pretty simple deal - no haggling, no financing. I even took a pic of the cashiers check I made @ BoA in full on Friday for the dealership to show them I was ready - and yet, they couldn't even do the right thing by letting me know that it wasn't coming in time, even though they knew very well that getting the car before this coming Memorial Day weekend was my key conditional reason.

A few Suby dealerships are pretty sympathetic - and one of them is actively working to get me a 6MT. I told them that if I can get one (Black or White) on or before the 29th, I'm cashing them out as long as they don't mark up beyond MSRP.

It's sad to see that even in this day and age, even NEW car dealers can't be counted on and trusted. I mean I'm not stupid and all the signs were there for me to not believe them (like shipments clearing ports in 2 days, delivery on Sunday, "TOP SCION DEALER") but I took their word for it. I suppose I might have had this one coming...


Bob

[DarrenDriven]

I assumed you were a First 86'er since you had the earlier delivery date, but I sense a common theme of ignorant Scion salespeople. My original salesguy was pretty cool and had worked for the dealership for over a decade. Of course, since I placed my deposit he vanished and has been replaced by a salesman that knows zilch about Scions. Ugh.

I'll cross my fingers for you, man!

[mechaghost]

I'm Elbert
27
Drives Silver 2013 BRZ AT Limited and 08 Impreza wagon
Rides Ducati Monster 1100s

[Ishii Motors]

Hello,

Steve here from Ishii Motor Industries in Bellevue.
Been so busy never had a chance to participate on this forum.

I have the first order for a Scion FR-S through Michael's Toyota in Bellevue for a Black 6-spd. Put that deposit down long long ago.

Perhaps many of you know, Cameron and myself have been tunning up AE86's for years. We are both really excited for this new generation '86'.
We plan on doing lots of stuff to our Demo car. I'll start posting up as things begin to happen.

We also have a FR-S / BRZ performance parts web store up and running.
please check it out. www.ishiimotors.com

Can also see our stuff on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ishii-...52945561399267

Hope to meet all new FR-S and BRZ owners soon!

Steve.

[DeepHunta]

Originally Posted by Ishii Motors

Hello,

www.ishiimotors.com


Steve.

Oh wow, local store. I'm in Bellevue too. Ordered both FR-S and BRZ, waiting who will get in first.

Checked your site. I think the Cusco Strut Tower may be my first upgrade purchase.

[RogerCarr_TOK]

Hey Bob, Just so you get an idea, a Scion dealer has access to something called dealer daily. This shows us our allocated cars and ETAs as far as when they leave Japan, arrive in port, and then should arrive at the dealership. It's always shown as a range, and is always an estimate. Anyways, sorry you're having difficulty, but in all honesty the amount of information given to the dealerships is somewhat limited.

[Smokinbuffalo]

I should of checked in here a while ago. I looked into ordering a BRZ from my local dealer in Marysville until they tried to charge $2k over sticker. I sent out some emails and wound up ordering one for sticker at Carter's in Shoreline. I'm getting a SWP Limited 6MT BRZ. Estimated delivery date is June 4th.

[unlimited02]

hello! im Snoa, located in Tukwila, WA, i drive a 95 civic LX and can't wait to get my own FT-86...