2021 TRD Off-Road Premium; Super White with moonroof, with all-weather floor liners, without KDSS (stock number 8672C). I drove by three other dealers to purchase from Michael Likens at Freeman Toyota in Santa Rosa, CA.
$44,374 MSRP
-$4,180 Dealer Discount
$40,194 Vehicle Purchase Price
+taxes, license, and registration
$44,511.86 OTD
FWIW: Invoice price is $40,779 per The Costco auto-buying program.
I was specifically looking for a TRD ORP without KDSS, and had preferences for a moonroof and either the Magnetic Gray Metallic or Super White colors. I am in the SF North Bay region, so I also created a spreadsheet for Northern California dealers (including some in WA, OR, ID, UT, NV and AZ) and used their websites to track their TRD ORPs in MGM and SW to get an idea of how they were pricing and discounting their vehicles. I followed recommendations provided elsewhere to create a separate e-mail account and a throw-away GoogleVoice number (which I never used).
Initially I could not find any TRD ORPs without KDSS, but then at the end of January San Francisco Toyota had two in MGM, and their instant ePrice of $42,060 (5% off) reflected a decent discount compared with other area dealers. To see if I could do better, I contacted about 30 dealers in Northern California through their websites stating what I wanted. (There were about 10 other dealers that required phone numbers if I wanted more information, so I decided to put them on the back-burner… I never did contact them.) The types of responses I received were exactly like what [MENTION=94588]JLTD[/MENTION] posted
here (which appears to be a repost of
this thread in a different forum). The best of these responses (maybe three or four) said that they had what I wanted in allocation or could get one from another dealer, and a few others told me the same after I had made my final decision. San Francisco Toyota was one of the good ones; they responded to my inquiry and gave me a new price of $41,774 ($2,500 under MSRP) on what I had seen on their website. My wife, who had initiated contact with Freeman Toyota a few weeks earlier and received a really good price on a KDSS vehicle, followed up with Michael and he provided her with a spec sheet of a vehicle without KDSS that was due to come in. She asked about the price, he quoted $40,194, and I called the next day to put down a small deposit. Aware of what other people were paying for their T4Rs in Bay Area and seeing so much BS in the replies of the other dealers, the quote we received from Freeman was very appreciated and I did not try to negotiate with them. I drove it off their lot two weeks ago.
Bottom line: If you are in Northern California, know exactly what you want ahead of time, then send an e-mail to Michael at Freeman Toyota in Santa Rosa. Good price. No BS. (Search for Freeman Toyota in these forums and you will see similar recommendations.)