new 2015

[Kalispel]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

Congrats. I have a silver 2014 L, and I'm not too far away (from a Texas perspective ) in Montgomery County. I'm assuming if you bought it locally, it is an automatic....for some reason (unfortunately...probably re demand) the distributor (Gulf States) doesn't believe in including the manual transmission Yaris among the product offerings.

Yeah, the Arizona Toyota dealerships told me that they don't order/stock the manuals because of low demand, low demand in general for the Yaris, low/non-existent profit margins on the Yaris, and because they are required by Toyota to stock parts for 20 years on all new cars that they sell. So, if I need any parts specific to a manual Yaris, I was told that I may have to wait longer for them to be ordered from outside their regional parts supply chain.

On a side note, I had some lady at Trader Joe's the other day ask me what type of car I was driving, because she had never seen it before. I assume she was referring to the 2015 model and its radically different face design, which is like spotting Bigfoot in Scottsdale, AZ at least). She thought it was a new Prius model or something. Yaris - the best kept secret of Toyota USA.
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