New Toyota Avensis Not Readily Available.

[Chris Dance]

I convinced a friend that getting a Toyota car would be better than a Vauxhall. He went to the local Toyota dealer and got interested in a petrol engined Avensis. ( He test drove a diesal model but found it sluggish). He was informed that a new Avensis could not be delivered until September. In view of this he settled for a second hand 2014 model Avensis.

Do all new Toyota models have this long lead time? I got my new Prrius last August it was delivered in a month of ordering.

[FROSTYBALLS]

Back in April, Toyota said that for the revised Avensis, order books would be open with first deliveries to customers from late June

http://blog.toyota.co.uk/new-toyota-avensis-uk-prices-and-specification

[FROSTYBALLS]

Topic moved to the Avensis club

[Heidfirst]

They have probably stopped production of the "old" model & are transitioning to production of initial stock of the "new".

I am surprised that there wasn't a new 1.8 in stock somewhere though albeit he may have had to compromise on colour/trim choices.

[Seamaster73]

My firm's fleet department quote a lead time of 16 weeks on most Toyota and Lexus models, even the ones built here.

[Guest]

I had the same experience I wanted a test drive of a Petrol Avensis but none were available I waited weeks and the salesman said he still couldn't get one, I bought a VW Golf 1.4Tsi Blue motion DSG transmission lovely car

[Heidfirst]

A class smaller than an Avensis though. Was going to ask if you considered an Auris but I see that you already have 1 (albeit not the latest facelift).

I suspect that these days UK new Avensis sales are heavily biased towards fleets & therefore diesels so dealer demonstrator availability reflects that.

Did you try a diesel demonstrator? OK, the engine & possibly transmission would have been different & the petrol's handling would actually be better than a diesel due to the lighter weight in the nose.

[john77]

We went to look at the new Avensis in late August. We wanted petrol but they only had diesel demonstrators and the salesman tried hard to persuade us to buy a diesel, basically saying that the vast majority of Avensis production is diesel. We stuck to our guns and went for a petrol one, he told us it wouldn't be ready till early December - more than three months. We went ahead and ordered it, and are now waiting patiently, so in answer to your question, there is a long lead time for a petrol Avensis. I bought a Mk 4 golf when they first came out. Lovely car to look at and drive, it initailly had a few niggly faults which were annoying, then needed a new catalytic converter, but the killer was that it started burning oil at a tremendous rate after only a few years, I was having to put in a litre or two every couple of weeks. Dumped it for a Corolla which has done 115000 miles in 9 years and all I've had to do to it is replace the radio aerial. Most reliable car I've ever had. Hope the new Avensis is the same....when it comes.

[ianrp1]

We got caught in the gap between models. Old Avensis Estate (2003 150k) not really up to long drive to SW France and back so decided to get a new one. We got the last remaining manual petrol Estate in the UK! Any colour we wanted so long as it was black! Quite an upgrade. How not to get a good deal.Still using old one as a runabout while it is cheap to own. The new model would have been even better and probably cost less too.