June - ordered, promised early Sept Delivery<br>Early Sept, promised Sept 15 delivery by Santa Cruz Toyota<br>Sept 15, promised Late October delivery<br>Mid October, promised early Dec with "worst case of Mid Dec" <br><br>If they come through, that will have been 6+ months. I sort of see a patttern, i don't expect them to come through<br>I'm ready to give up waiting - <br><br>Frusterated in Santa Cruz

Tom?<br>What is your email address?

Hi. I ordered my Silver Prius from Santa Cruz Toyota on December 12 and received it April 20th. Very close to the extimated delivery time... but no thanks to Santa Cruz Toyota. At that time they seemed to be completely "out of the loop" as to how this ordering thing is set up. After I had ordered my car, I then found this club and the newsgroup and learned how I should have done it. Since I received no communication at all from either the dealership or Toyota during my wait (no calculator, no manual, no nothing) I had to go down to Santa Cruz Toyota and pound on the Customer Service door to even get someone to check the computer to see if my car really was on order (it was). The problem stemmed from the fact that the well-meaning data entry person had not included my email address in the information. I would agree that a 6 month wait is ridiculous... the cars are coming in and I see more and more of them all over the place (right here in Santa Cruz). I also feel that delaying the estimated delivery date is a good indicator of something being mishandled by the dealer. Sounds like your car wasn't really ordered at all until September. When I demanded where my car was (about three weeks before it actually came) they had to have a man drive out to the docks in Long Beach to confirm that it wasn't one of those scheduled for delivery in the Bay Area (turned out that it was on the next ship due in). At least they tried to help me... Whatever you do... don't get too frustrated to give up on the car... when the day comes that you twist your coded key in the switch and your display screen brightens with the Toyota logo and your instrument cluster illuminates with the word "READY" it will all be worth it!

tlw@...

I'd say you are lucky. California should have the $1000 rebate in place by the end of November. <br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Rick