Is the wait killing you?!?!?!?

yea, next to the californians and whosthatrussian, I think I've waited the longest. I started talking with one dealer at the end of july. They said they had a 5-speed flint mica coming in on the next ship...would take about a week or so to get from the ship, to the port, to atlanta. yea right! I don't know what they were smoking, because three weeks later, the car had still not left port and the dealer finally notified me that the dash had been broken and they were waiting for a replacement part to come from Japan. At that point I was so sick of being fed lies that I ended up telling them to try and keep my business. The best that they could do was to get me my third choice color in mid-september. bye bye, see ya later. I got my deposit back and went to another dealer. Everything seemed to work out great there. Same dream car that I was supposed to get from the first dealer and it was already at port...just had to be released and driven to GA. Well, the next day I get a call from my salesman saying that unfortunately, that exact car had been dealer traded only a couple hours earlier and it just hadn't registered in their system. ahhhhhhh! so, long story made even longer...I've been waiting for a flint mica automatic (yea, I know) for the past two and a half weeks. Luckily the hurrican (francis) came through florida (the location of the port) about when my car was supposed to be put on a truck to be delivered. So the 99% sure delivery date of september 7th was off. All in all I've been in the market trying to buy a tC since the end of july, and I'm still not sure when my damn, ahem, beautiful car will arrive. I hope nobody else had to deal with the same mess that I've dealt with. Oh, and hurrican Charlie ruined the deliver of the very original tC that I was supposed to get from the first dealer. Extra tid-bit that makes me hate hurricanes more and more...

i started the tc hunt at the end of june when the dealer that i was dealing with at first got a demo tc. i wanted an auto flint mica and it took about a month before they finally got one listed to come in. when they found out, i got a call on a wednesday and they said that it would be there sometime on the weekend and they would call me when it got there. i had been waiting about a month. then the weekend came and no call. i called them on monday after that weekend that the car was supposed to come in and they said that they never had an auto flint mica on the list. i soon found out that they were actually selling tCs, and other cars as well, to people who just walked in and wanted it, even though people had deposits on them and were waiting for them. so in plain terms, they sold my car and then lied to me. i got mad, and i made them find me an auto flint mica. they got one that thursday, 3 days after i compalined. i went in on that thursday, test drove the car, did the deal, and right before i signed any papers i told them i didn't want the car and stuck it to them. i'm sure they sold it no problem, but like a day or two later, costing them money. not that much money to make a big difference but i felt good anyway. it might sound like they were right and the car never came until thursday, but believe me, that's not the case at all. they found a second one that someone else was probably waiting for. 2 days later, i stumbled upon a dealer in a smaller town nearby me and they had no waiting list at all for tCs, and they still don't . i bought my silver streak mica right off the boat from japan and got it a week later no problem. i like this color better anyway.

I've been having dreams that I see all these flint mica tC's on the road and really, it's my car that keeps coming in that the dealer is selling!!!

I've also been waiting since about mid July and I hounded the dealer today who finally got back to me and found out that it's being built tomorrow... happy birthday tC!!

If you are in the Bay Area (Norther cali), I recommend going to San Francisco Toyota. The sales guy Mark was awesome and not pushy at all (I hate that ) Tell him Eden sent you! They told me my car was going to be here in 3 weeks flat (found out later that it might take an extra week ) but they offered me a loaner car if it doesn’t arrive on time! Guess what…they found a car for me from another dealership near by and I am getting my baby in exactly 3 weeks!!!! Hope this helps to all you folks in the Bay!