Pricing Speculation

[Nardi330]

no idea as i'm not financing. i will be using equity from my home loan as interest rate is much cheaper.

[davey90]

Originally Posted by Nardi330

no idea as i'm not financing. i will be using equity from my home loan as interest rate is much cheaper.

Ahh no worries, i found it. Cheers! just had a chat with the financing peeps, i think its better to go with a bank...

[Nardi330]

Originally Posted by davey90

Ahh no worries, i found it. Cheers! just had a chat with the financing peeps, i think its better to go with a bank...

this is usually true but i found VW finance pretty competitive. last i heard they also do other brands.

[blags]

I emailed the dealer today and got this:

We have secured the GT Manual in Pegasus White for you.
At this stage, the VEhicle is docking in Melbourne on the 17th of June, which usually means we would see it around the 26th of June. Pricing will not be available until the official release date of around the 10th of June. The latest Edition of Wheels magazine gives the car a fantastic report, if you read it you'll see what you've got to look forward to.

[Ballsak2nv]

Originally Posted by davey90

Does anyone know the Finance rate for Toyota Finance? I thought it would be 2.9% but that's only for select car with no deposit.

I can confirm that my local dealer wont be offering any sort of discounted finance options. No 2.9% not 3.9% at best using my house as a guarantee i would get 8.9%.

As mentioned, equity on a homeloan would be the best bet in the beginning.

[Netrosis]

Originally Posted by Netrosis

If we got the same "relative pricing" on the 86, could be as low as $29,000 AUD. Once again disclaimer that my maths could be wrong there.

Well it seems that pricing was actually quite accurate. I've updated the spreadsheet with the confirmed pricing.

86 GT MT - $29,990
86 GT AT - $32,490
86 GTS MT - $35,490
86 GTS AT - $37,990

Auto is an extra $2500 over the manual counterparts and the GTS model is $5500 over the GT model.

The only cars on my list which have similar pricing scales are the Prius V (Prius Alpha), Prius C and Rav4.

Based on everything else on the list, the pricing for the 86 is nothing short of amazing. That being said, the auto and GTS specs were a little higher than I had predicted but that's probably where Toyota is planning on making their money (on extras!).

Now that the official pricing is released however, I guess there's not really any need for this thread any longer.

Thanks to everyone who helped me generate this spreadsheet, pointing out mistakes or helping me get RRP's of vehicles.

[smellytofu]

I'd hate to blow your bubble, but the way the price was calculate has nothing to do overseas pricing EVER for any Toyota vehicles. The way you guessed the pricing is impressive but I can guarantee with 110% certainty that it was a purely coincidental. Pricing for any Toyota vehicles in Australia takes into account factors relevant for the Australian market only. What US, Europe or Japan does is up to them and totally irrelevant for Australia. Just like how iPhones sell in the US has nothing to do with Australia, China, Japan, Britain etc. If pricing was based around overseas pricing, then it would be a much easier job to make up.

[Wally Simmonds]

Why is the manual GTS + 5500? That seems a lot for drive away.
At that price I might consider the GT I think.

[Nardi330]

Originally Posted by Wally Simmonds

Why is the manual GTS + 5500? That seems a lot for drive away.
At that price I might consider the GT I think.

GTS manual being $35,490 is GT $29,990 + $5,500.

not saying ORC is $5,500.

[Netrosis]

Nardi is correct. I was showing how much more it was than the base model

I have edited the post to make more sense.

Originally Posted by smellytofu

I'd hate to blow your bubble, but the way the price was calculate has nothing to do overseas pricing EVER for any Toyota vehicles.

It was never meant to figure out the exact pricing. The idea was to figure out on average, the difference in price between Australian models to their overseas counterparts. Then we could narrow down the price range.

Thought that still would have been inaccurate since we had no idea whether Toyota was going to try and gouge the market like the Mazda MX-5 or stay true to the idea of "affordable sports coupe".

It did tell me that the chances of it being a high RRP like $40k were unlikely (but then so was an RRP of $30k). I also thought it was a bit more interesting than just trying to randomly guess the price, and I figured I should share my results if others were interested.