Got my Prius today!!! Now I can actually verify statements before putting them on the board. (But will I? Hmmm.)<br><br>Had an interesting little dealer oops though. I showed up at 12:30 to pick up my car. Dealer handed me the keys to check it out. Everything looked good, then I mentioned "How come the VIN isn't the same as the one you mentioned on the phone". Dealer's jaw dropped big time. Turns out they received two silver Prius and one green. Mine was supposed to be prepped first, then the green, then the other silver (since they haven't been able to contact its owner yet). But the service dept. just went by color, not VIN.<br><br>So I completed all the paper work while they quick started working on my car. Since it takes 3 hours to give the NiMH batteries their initial charge, the dealer let me take his rental back to work. I then swapped it for my Prius this evening.<br><br>The dealer was actually very glad I noticed. Otherwise he would have had to explain to the other customer why her new car had a hundred or so miles on it (I do about 60 miles per day).<br><br>By the way, that's a very nice green color, much lighter than it appears on the web site or in the brochure. GCKorn, looks like you made a good choice. But I'll stick with silver, no way do I want to wait until Feb.<br><br>Robert Snyder

Robert, <br><br>Could you post your dates?<br>I am from NJ too - so maybe I can estimate my delivery based on yours.<br><br>Thanks

My dates (for jasio2):<br><br>Ordered on web - 7/18/00.<br>Received email: dealer completed order - 7/18/00.<br>Received email: 2 - 3 months wait - 7/27/00.<br>Dealer phone call: on boat, arriving 9/12 or 9/24 - 9/8/00.<br>Phone call to dealer: on boat, arriving 9/24 - 9/13/00.<br>Dealer phone call: in port, delivery probably by 9/29 - 9/25/00.<br>Dealer phone call: come pick up - 9/28/00.<br>Almost picked up - 12:30pm 9/28/00 (wrong VIN prepped).<br>Picked up - 6:30pm 9/28/00.<br><br>Hope this helps you calculate. It sounds like adding about 1.5 days per day you ordered after me will give a good estimate, but that's based on a very small sample size, and I'm not sure how the flooding in Japan fits into all this.<br><br>I initiated several other phone calls (what, me anxious?) but the above are the ones that revealed new information about delivery.<br><br>Robert Snyder

Robert,<br><br>Enjoy your car!!!! <br><br>GCKorn

Robert,<br><br>I'm seriously impressed by your dealer contact. Did you or the dealer initiate the calls with status updates. <br><br>Walt

&gt;&gt;I'm seriously impressed by your dealer contact. Did you or the dealer initiate the calls with status updates.&lt;&lt;<br><br>Mostly my dealer initiated calls when new status information was available. I bugged him a couple times when nothing new was available, and got lucky once calling him before he had a chance to call me with new info.<br><br>So far, I've been very happy with him as my dealer.<br><br>Robert