Convince me to spend money: “new” car edition

[mr2mike]

What's the deal on importing a RAV4 Prime from Quebec? Or any vehicle from Quebec?
Can this not be done easily? I mean to save $20k, seems like a no brainer.

I'm assuming they're still on Canadian dollars.

[bjstare]

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Enjoy your RAV4 birdman86.

Did you finally get one? For a reasonable price? Haha

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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Did you finally get one? For a reasonable price? Haha

Yep ended up buying birdman86’s car.

[never]

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Yep ended up buying birdman86’s car.

Let me know when you sell it in a few months…ha!

[Twin_Cam_Turbo]

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Let me know when you sell it in a few months…ha!

Probably not, I’m saving for a 911 but didn’t want to completely give up on life in between haha. Fun fact I had a brand new Fiesta ST on order from Ford in early 2017, but after 4 months they couldn’t give me a production date and I needed a car as I was driving a $1 Integra in the interim so I cancelled my order and leased a brand new 2017 WRX for $400/month $0 down back when leases were a good deal.

[rage2]

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Well I didn't mean 6 rav4's, I mean 6 total vehicles. And they were all trucks. I don't belive they have zero cars or SUV's in stock.

Was at Charlesglen dropping off the Sienna for service. In their showroom they have 6 cars for sale. 3 used Toyotas, and 3 non Toyota used cars. Asked their sales guy, they have 0 unsold new cars in inventory. Website has a bunch of cars, all sold haha.

So yea, the Toyota inventory situation is still dire. Filling up showroom with used cars.





The rest of the showroom cars are either sold cars or owners cars for show. Matte white Supra w/Volks and Supra Spoiler FTW.

[ExtraSlow]

Incredible. I'm not visiting any dealerships, just keyboard warrioring from a place of ignorance, as usual.

[rage2]

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Incredible. I'm not visiting any dealerships, just keyboard warrioring from a place of ignorance, as usual.

All good. Was killing time waiting for my ride and remembered our convo.

[ExtraSlow]

One day I'll pull the trigger on a new car. Yep, one day...

[Xtrema]

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Was at Charlesglen dropping off the Sienna for service. In their showroom they have 6 cars for sale. 3 used Toyotas, and 3 non Toyota used cars. Asked their sales guy, they have 0 unsold new cars in inventory. Website has a bunch of cars, all sold haha.

So yea, the Toyota inventory situation is still dire. Filling up showroom with used cars.





The rest of the showroom cars are either sold cars or owners cars for show. Matte white Supra w/Volks and Supra Spoiler FTW.

Last time I was out there, they have Lincoln and some MB in the show room. And on the other side, they have some classic Land Cruiser just for show I guess.

Across at Village Honda, it was showing a Prelude and Del Sol.


Wonder if Toyota is pulling a Kia tho...
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industr...-compound-2024

[killramos]

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One day I'll pull the trigger on a new car. Yep, one day...

And let’s just be honest. It will be an F150

[rage2]

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Last time I was out there, they have Lincoln and some MB in the show room. And on the other side, they have some classic Land Cruiser just for show I guess.

Across at Village Honda, it was showing a Prelude and Del Sol.


Wonder if Toyota is pulling a Kia tho...
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industr...-compound-2024

Doubtful. They've been like this since 2021. Been tracking wait lists for coworkers fairly regularly.

[jutes]

Are Toyotas that much better to justify the wait? I can’t imagine a new sequoia being $50k better than our poverty armada, which was available at the dealer.

[Xtrema]

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Are Toyotas that much better to justify the wait? I can’t imagine a new sequoia being $50k better than our poverty armada, which was available at the dealer.

I guess reliability and resale value come back up to the top when interest rate is high.

[heavyD]

I think Toyota is probably diverting as much manufacturing capacity as possible to the USA (they tied with GM for most vehicles sold November so clearly US dealers are getting cars) while Canada received a trickle of new vehicles.