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Arthur Hass wrote:[color=blue]
> My region did not offer the 8-passenger Sienna CE, but my dealer said
> they could get me one at no extra charge. The only restrictions were
> that I would probably have to wait about a month and I would have to
> select my top three color choices and take what color they could find. I
> could still specify any other options.
>
> I opted to go with the 7-passenger, so didn't go through the process.
> Thus, I don't really know what I could have gotten an 8-passenger for.
> But, I was told that would have been negotiated prior to ordering the car.
>
> Not sure how the regions are defined.[/color]

Hello Arthur,

Thanks for sharing your experience. I am not sure what I will do, the
one time I raised this issue during a test drive with the sales person
she said there would be a charge .. and if this would result in a long
wait and a charge which would yield minimal savings over the $600 in
options I don't want, I may just not even try.

After reading Ray's historical account of the dealerships/regions I
know a little bit more about why/how things work, though I still don't like
it that consumers are constrained by these artificial barriers.

Esmail