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I thought this was interesting: Avalon sales are down 14% from prior year, and certainly lagging the performance of Toyota's total passenger car division. Feb YTD Feb 2007 2006 %CHG 2007 2006 % CHG YARIS 5,702 0 — 11,572 0 – COROLLA 28,321 25,088 12.9 53,840 49,975 5.5 CAMRY 32,148 27,354 17.5 63,609 54,794 13.7 AVALON 5,583 6,900 -19.1% 12,112 13,846 -14.3% PRIUS 12,227 6,547 86.8 20,526 14,201 41.6 SCION xA 1,722 2,285 -24.6 3,480 4,343 -21.5 SCION xB 2,868 4,074 -29.6 5,701 7,910 -29.4 SCION tC 4,366 5,048 -13.5 8,779 9,855 -12.7 TOTAL TOYOTA DIV. PASS. CAR 92,938 77,304 20.2% 179,620 154,942 13.6% ES 350 5,286 3,223 64.0 10,606 6,556 58.5 LS 460 2,423 1,015 138.7 5,429 2,205 141.2 SC 430 282 446 -36.8 584 851 -32.8 GS 300 1,388 1,771 -21.6 2,756 3,470 -22.2 GS 430/450h 175 278 -37.1 358 557 -37.0 IS 250/350 3,937 3,882 1.4 7,332 7,955 -9.7 TOTAL LEXUS PASS. CAR 13,491 10,615 27.1% 27,065 21,594 22.8% TOTAL TOYOTA PASS. CAR 106,429 87,919 21.1% 206,685 176,536 14.7% Could better incentives on Avalon be coming soon to a dealer near you? Also, I wish more of those >5000 Avalon purchases per month would post their "prices paid" details in this forum... These forums can be such a valuable consumer tool, but, truthfully, I've found that this particular forum is relatively thin on new Avalon purchase details - just a few postings per week on average. Maybe it's just me.
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Replying to: zebra5 (Mar 29, 2007 4:09 am) All you had to do was ask..  Bought my 07 Avalon XLS in Sept of 06.. details are as follows: Msrp sticker price $33,320.00 less trade in - 1,000.00 ( 15 year old oldsmobile ) Balance.......... $32,320.00 down payment..... - 5,000.00 Balance.......... $27,320.00 ext. warranty.... $ 1,595.00 ( yeah, got hosed here ) Balance.......... $28,915.00 tt&L + other fees + 2,311.00 Balance.......... $31,226.00 dealer discount.. - 3,389.14 amount financed $27,836.86
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| I bought my 06 Av xls in 11/05 - added the 5yr/75000 mile Toyota wraparound bumper to bumper warranty. I honestly dont remember what I paid but it was a lot less than the dealer was asking. When I closed my deal - the finance guy hit me up for the warranty with the inflated price. I made the check out for the car and then told him that I would make another for the warranty and this is what I was willing to pay right now - he squealed and said how he was loosing money but then gladly accepted the check as payment in full because I was a "loyal customer." Go figuire... Hold your ground. Goatee... | |
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Can anyone tell me if it is possible to get the 2007 Avalon (Touring or XLS) in a base configuration (ie with no additional factory, port or dealer) options ? I keep being told that several of the option packages are mandatory (ie the dealers HAVE to order them). Beyond the obvious oxymoron of a "mandatory" option, it seems to me that this is simply another way for the dealers to inflate selling prices and push features on buyers that (at least some of us) don't want to pay for. Does anyone have a success story buying a (IMHO) perfectly adequately equipped BASE level Touring or XLS ? Thanks in advance.
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Replying to: user2 (Apr 06, 2007 9:12 pm) That's part of my theory as to why this Avalon forum gets so few postings of new car purchase details. With the multiple trim lines and various factory, distributor and dealer options, the "price to beat" is just not very clear-cut to most buyers. What you get is a pricing market that is far from "commoditized". That's good if you're the seller, but confusing if you're the buyer. |
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Replying to: rpfingsten (Mar 30, 2007 2:29 am) GST (in Houston) and Sotuheast Toytoa, are the only 2 remaining independent Toyota distributors and as such control to a very large degree what the dealers get and what is 'included'. Every Avalon I've seen down here in Texas (for the last 2 years), is marked up an additional $1500-2500 for what amounts extra profit for the distributor. It apparently is cheaper to buy the cars outside of the Gulf Coast and/or the Southeast areas - a situation that Toyota needs to fix, it may save you some money to buy the car in Chicago and drive it back, although I wonder if you won't take a double sales tax hit if you do.
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Replying to: captain2 (Apr 09, 2007 9:30 am) Host, do you have any thoughts on this, or suggestions how to improve this forum?
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| I will test drive a 2005 "Certified" Avalon XLS tomorrow. No nav. It is white and has factory tinted windows. Looks real nice. Dealer has $27,000 as "internet" price. Doing my research on KBB, NADA and Edmonds, around $25,000 seems to be an average price. Does this seem like a decent deal? Thoughts please. | |
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Replying to: zebra5 (Apr 10, 2007 11:43 am) The biggest reason is probably number of sales.. The Avalon is a relatively low volume unit. We have around 250 Prices Paid discussions for various models... There are quite a few that don't have any posts this calendar year. I'll let someone else decide why. Buick LaCrosse Cadillac STS Chrysler Sebring Dodge Caliber Hyundai Tiburon Saturn Sky By contrast, the Avalon discussion has 20 posts in the last month.. though, I'll admit... not a lot of useful information..
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Replying to: kyfdx (Apr 10, 2007 6:21 pm)  You know, I never bought into that line of thinking that Avalon is really a Buick marketed to people who thought they were too young or too cool to buy a Buick...but now your post has got me thinking. Hmmm... what do Avalon, Buick LaCrosse and Cadillac CTS all have in common? That's right, they are all driven by people who haven't heard about the internet yet. That, and none have Bluetooth (but lots of blue hair). Signing off. If you need me, I'll be over at the Corvette forum shopping for my mid-life crisis.
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