How far did you go to pick up your 3rd Gen Tundra?

Fly ~400 miles (MSP-->ORD), dealer sales guy picks up wife and I at airport, back to dealership, sign papers, drive 414 miles home.

 

A local dealer had almost what I wanted but tacked on a $2K Karr system. They wouldn't take it off, so I went to Longo Toyota in LA that had the exact one I wanted, $2K discount and no BS. I saved $4K. They are about 120 miles away, but LA traffic can make that 6+ round trip. I was going to take the train, then a friend with a private plane offered to fly me as he wanted to test some new electronics. Little airport was a $7 Uber from dealer. I thought they were going to add on some fee when I accidentally said I flew up in a private plane... they didn't.

 

Flew to Phoenix and picked it up and drove it back to Dallas. It was a fun way to break it in.

 

Interesting.

 

Just over 2 miles

 

Nah, just retired, if I don't need a truck, it stays in garage. I have other vehicles to drive that get much better mileage.

 

Says the rich guy with multiple vehicles to choose from.

 

354km in a blizzard a day before Christmas Eve.

 

Flew to Vegas and drove home 427 miles for a non sunroof, non TRD off road, long bed limited. $7k below sticker.

 

Flew one way and drove ~1300 miles in April 24 to get what I wanted, which I could not find in my state. Saved ~$10K compared to local dealers for models that I did not want. Would do again.

 

Mine was delivered at my doorstep by a hot blond in tight short shorts and a tank top. It was glorious.

 

20 miles. But it was during Bay Area traffic.... so over an hour away

 

You live at a Hooters? Nice.....

 

67 miles

 

I’m going to start on my engine break in period bring my Limited back home. KC to ATL

 

12.4 miles return trip

 

3h 45m (240miles) NC to VA to get my '24 1794 Windchill Pearl. Traded in the old Nissan, drove home the Tundra.

 

46 miles total there and back.

 

769 miles from Midlothian Virginia to Schererville Indiana in my 2023 1794 to pick up my 2024 1794 Limited Edition and then a return trip of 769 miles back home. All of the 1,500 miles were done in 3 days from a Friday to Sunday. My wife thought I was crazy to drive that far for “just a truck!”

As others have said I’d do it all over again for this truck.

 

I live in Metro Atlanta. The issue is not availability as much as the density of wealth. Rich either real or pretender folks in ATL suck every in demand vehicle for at least a 50 mile radius so no dealers are motivated to deal. Some Buff or Becky from Buckhead will buy it.

During COVID way to many people for which writing a check for $5k over MSRP to get what they want immediately is no big deal. For those it is or refuse to do it you are searching for the Toyota dealer in the sticks just past the convience point that Buff will drive his bloated checkbook to buy a ride. Or flying somewhere with more per capita dealers where competition is fiercer.

Some areas are just collusion for ripoffs or con offer. For example on Autotrader I want a button to show any vehicle that is with 500 miles of me except any dealer in FL. I don't want to waste time looking at all the bait and switch pricing there

 

Nice

 

Is it bad to be wealthy?

 

Nope. What you do as a person is good or bad, but the resources you have don't determine that. Your character does.

 

Agreed. I just sensed a little class envy from @Fatone. I see he's busy editing his original post. LOL.

 

We live in a very affluent area.
There's Master Planned Communities all over the place.
And another Golf Course around every turn.
Our backyard over looks the 14 fairway.
I think it has more to do with availability.
And there's a Toyota factory not far from us that builds the Tundras if I remember correctly.
You can walk onto any Toyota lot and have a Shitload of choices when it comes to Tundras.
Many of them already modified by the dealers themselves.
My Tundra TRD came with a mild lift off the lot.

 

Almost 1,200 miles. When I was looking for the 2024 1794 LE, my local dealer had a black one allocated and I only buy white down here in FL. They worked for several weeks to try to get other dealers to trade and I finally got a text that they couldn’t get anyone to cooperate so the hunt began. My first Toyota that won’t be from my local dealer after six in a row. I had business travel scheduled for Michigan and Ohio. A dealer in SE Michigan had just received one and I swung by to have a look since I hadn’t seen one in person yet. This particular one didn’t have any port or dealer added options which was perfect to me. I worked to contain my excitement and looked at several other trim levels to not show my hand for the LE. I didn’t have much time so I just got the salesman’s card and we worked it out over the next few days and it was also near month end so that worked to my advantage getting a great discount.

As a side note, when my local dealer did get their allotment truck the sticker was just over a $100k with their “market adjustment” sticker.

 

15.8 miles each way.
Back in November 2023, was lucky to find the exact truck I was looking for at my preferred dealer.

 

Whopping 5 miles for me. Preferred dealer had exactly what I wanted in stock and made me a solid deal.