2015 Yaris SE (m/t) - Week-One Impressions - The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly.

[Kalispel]

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

He found it in Colorado....had been sitting there about the same length of time my '14 had been sitting in Florida when I completed the purchase.

Given how big Texas is.....and how Gulf States Toyota has decided to be (although to be fair, that might be because of lack of demand).....I think we in Texas usually must expand our search more than would be required for residents of most other states .

Kalispel, I remember you wrote that they accepted your first offer and that you then had to pay for transportation. Did they bring it directly to you (residence or place of business), or did you have to have it unloaded at a local Toyota dealer (for safety and or ergonomic reasons re unloading) ?

When I was finally ready to buy (mid-July 2015), and conducted nationwide searches via Cargurus, AutoTrader, etc. there was only two 2015 white SE manuals listed in the entire country (and not many of all colors combined past that). The dealership in CA didn't seem interested in dealing with an out-of-state purchase, shipping, etc. on a Yaris, but Liberty Toyota/Scion in Colorado Springs was very responsive and happy to do it. They rolled the $450 shipping cost from Colorado Springs to Phoenix into the purchase price, and shipped it straight to my home address (in a big, full-sized auto-hauling truck that holds multiple cars).

My Yaris did indeed sit on the dealer lot for over 6 months. The date of manufacture in France is listed on the door jam as November, 2014. I'm sure that it was a slow seller both because it was manual and the dealer pics of it on their website, cargurus, etc. featured the car after a bad storm, and it was covered in dirt and mud. Also, the dealer disclosed that it had endured a minor hail storm earlier in the year that had damaged some of their other vehicles - but not my mighty little Yaris apparently.

On the day my Yaris arrived to my residence in Scottsdale, AZ, the trucker team called me at work about 2-3 hours out and let me know when they would be there. I took a half-day paid personal day at work and was there to meet them when they arrived. The car arrived with 39 total miles on the odometer - with no dents/dings/scratch to be found (much to my relief).

A humorous side-note to the delivery was what the trucker said after he backed my car off the truck and pulled it into the driveway. He said that he had been dropping off all $40K+ Audi, BMW, Lexus, etc. cars in this area in his current delivery today - and then here was this cute little white Toyota Yaris SE mixed in there with those high-end luxury cars. He understood though when I told him that is what I had to do in order to find the exact car that I wanted with a manual-transmission.

For those interested, the retail price of the manual SE is $17,650 or so (including baked-in $800 destination cost), and I paid $16,450 before CO-to-AZ shipping fee, Scottsdale, AZ equivalent sales tax, and $499 dealer fees. The already-installed front/back/trunk floor-mats were included at no additional cost in that pricing. I was fully prepared to pay the full retail if I had to in order to get the car that I wanted, but they accepted my first offer, luckily enough - and the retail price-cut more than offset what I paid in long-distance shipping fees and such.

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by Kalispel

When I was finally ready to buy (mid-July 2015), and conducted nationwide searches via Cargurus, AutoTrader, etc. there was only two 2015 white SE manuals listed in the entire country (and not many of all colors combined past that). The dealership in CA didn't seem interested in dealing with an out-of-state purchase, shipping, etc. on a Yaris, but Liberty Toyota/Scion in Colorado Springs was very responsive and happy to do it. They rolled the $450 shipping cost from Colorado Springs to Phoenix into the purchase price, and shipped it straight to my home address (in a big, full-sized auto-hauling truck that holds multiple cars).

My Yaris did indeed sit on the dealer lot for over 6 months. The date of manufacture in France is listed on the door jam as November, 2014. I'm sure that it was a slow seller both because it was manual and the dealer pics of it on their website, cargurus, etc. featured the car after a bad storm, and it was covered in dirt and mud. Also, the dealer disclosed that it had endured a minor hail storm earlier in the year that had damaged some of their other vehicles - but not my mighty little Yaris apparently.

On the day my Yaris arrived to my residence in Scottsdale, AZ, the trucker team called me at work about 2-3 hours out and let me know when they would be there. I took a half-day paid personal day at work and was there to meet them when they arrived. The car arrived with 39 total miles on the odometer - with no dents/dings/scratch to be found (much to my relief).

A humorous side-note to the delivery was what the trucker said after he backed my car off the truck and pulled it into the driveway. He said that he had been dropping off all $40K+ Audi, BMW, Lexus, etc. cars in this area in his current delivery today - and then here was this cute little white Toyota Yaris SE mixed in there with those high-end luxury cars. He understood though when I told him that is what I had to do in order to find the exact car that I wanted with a manual-transmission.

For those interested, the retail price of the manual SE is $17,650 or so (including baked-in $800 destination cost), and I paid $16,450 before CO-to-AZ shipping fee, Scottsdale, AZ equivalent sales tax, and $499 dealer fees. The already-installed front/back/trunk floor-mats were included at no additional cost in that pricing. I was fully prepared to pay the full retail if I had to in order to get the car that I wanted, but they accepted my first offer, luckily enough - and the retail price-cut more than offset what I paid in long-distance shipping fees and such.

Great that you got such good service, and that your car was ding free ! A couple of years ago (?), out near Katy (far west side of our metro), I saw a new car that didn't yet have permanent plates. The car had obviously just been through a massive hailstorm and had huge dents all over. I remember thinking how costly it was going to be for the insurance company (if the owner had comprehensive) to repair the car.