My replacement Yaris

[Kalispel]

Originally Posted by 07YarisUS

Damn so jealous, they don't even make the new ones in manual here in the US anymore no market out there for them, sad to see them discontinue them here but I guess business is business.

Certain regional Toyota Distribution channels have chosen not to stock them. The region that Arizona is in is one of them, effective end-of-model-year 2014, which is why I had to buy my 2015 SE manual out-of-state (from a different OEM supply-chain region) and have it shipped to my home. The fact that my particular Yaris sat on the lot for approx. 9 months, despite being one of the most popular car colors available, is a depressing testament to how unpopular the Yaris is in the USA - particularly the manual version (and probably the SE due to higher price tag).

The local AZ dealerships had some lame-sounding excuse that if they sold the manual Yaris, then their designated regional OEM parts distributor would be required (by Toytota) to stock all OEM parts of that manual Yaris for a full 20 years after-the-fact - which isn't worth their time/space considering how few manual Yaris sold from 2012-2014 in that regional area. Apparently, they aren't even happy about stocking parts for the Yaris, period - including automatics.

The sad fact is that U.S. Toyota dealerships wouldn't even stock/sell the Yaris in any form if they had a choice in the matter - so they do the next best thing and stock only the minimum required amounts dictated my Toyota HQ - usually all automatics (and a token manual here in there in applicable regions). They would rather sell you any other new Toyota model on the lot, and make better profit margins.