Toyota supply chain dude here.

Honestly, you need to just go to another dealer that has one that you want. There is no “order” the dealer can do, they are just waiting until they have one allocated. And even then, they won’t be able to choose the config.

As an admin of some of those old forums back in the day, let me tell you the biggest reason. Because vBulletin not only lost the web2.0 technology arms race, they were nuked from orbit.

Anybody who admin’d or moderated a forum back then knows how big of a problem bot and spam accounts were, thats its own thing. But when people can just log into FB and post things right from their phone, having to host your own photos externally and link them in with bbcode on the forum, just shows you they were going to be destroyed as soon as there was ANY platform out there as an alternative. Even if it wasn’t really an alternative.

Give them a few years. We’ll just see how these tiny, turbo’d, CVT cars do vs NA with a traditional automatic transmission down the road.