The Truth About the Numbers

[fdefazio]

When shopping around town for my FJ (VooDoo Blue - will post photos later), I was told by the salesperson that "you should not mind paying close to the sticker price, because Toyota is only making a certain number of these vehicles per year and they will be a collector's item one day..." Right.

I walked out and bought the vehicle online by emailing 10 dealers in my area and asking for their best quotes, then elminating the high ones and then asking for better quotes. I paid $375 over invoice.

Anyway, does anyone know if there exactly how many FJ's are produced each year and for how many years Toyota will be producing the FJ?

Thanks!

Frank!

[MoSun]

Somewhere over 40 thousand this year. Who knows about next year.

[b984rnr]

pressroom.toyota.com will give you all their sales numbers to date.

[20Montana]

44,917 to date. Can be seen here.

Toyota/Lexus/Scion Pressroom: Toyota Reports Best-Ever October Sales

[Kansas Law Dog]

20Montana previously said:

44,917 to date. Can be seen here.

Toyota/Lexus/Scion Pressroom: Toyota Reports Best-Ever October Sales

Having owned Land Cruisers for 28 straight years (78, 91, 99), I was interested in the low sales of the Land Cruiser and LX 470 (Lexus version) and the decline in sales (this year to prior year). I realize that Toyota has a number of SUV's (Landcruiser, 4Runner, Sequoia, Highlander, RAV?, and now FJ Cruiser), but to see less than 11,000 units (LX 470 plus Landcruiser) sales where FJ Cruiser is over 44,000 make me wonder if Toyota has other plans for the North American sales of Landcruiser. The FJ Cruiser has been highly successful in its first year and I wouldn't be surprised to see Toyota offer it to other world markets in a year or two.

Could the price and low volume of Land Cruiser sales (I don't know about worldwide) result in retiring the Land Cruiser (although extremely well engineered for off roading, it is too expensive to play in the dirt)? Then would FJ Cruiser be in line for rebadging as the next Land Cruiser? There is one precedent I know of in Toyota's history, the first Supra was called the Celica Supra (79-81). The FJ Cruiser is not only retro to the FJ40 in looks, but in functionally too.

[juniorbean]

Typical salesman line for this vehicle.

One of the dealers I went to told me the same thing and said they're only producing 46k vehicles in the 2007 trim (which matched what I initially read on here). When I asked him why people online were getting FJs with VINs indicating they were over 52k he studdered for a second and told me, "Well, they didn't start the numbering at 1". I said I know, they started it at 1k, so even factoring that in, people are getting vehicles with VINs indicating 5k+ over the original production number. He had no answer for that.

Needless to say we did not buy from them and got a killer deal elsewhere...