re: Toyota dealership not allowing orders.

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This is the correct answer. You cannot Special Order a Toyota, regardless of what any dealer will tell you.

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That would frick with the Kaizen. In general Japanese manufacturers do not take build allocations outside of something like an LFA. Your "order" gets fulfilled based on what they have built and in the shipping pipeline or slotted for build. This can be done because Japanese manufacturers have short options lists.

Compare that to Euro car manufacturers where you can get a build allocation and they are literally building that car for you. They also have a much longer option list in general and due to the exponential growth of permutations with each ala cart option filling orders from planned builds would be practically impossible. It is easy to get a Unicorn MB, BMW, Audi, or Porsche built but it is basically impossible with the Japanese options lists. This is one of the reasons Japanese manufacturers can offer more value for money but you aren't going to have a 1 of 1 Toyota where there are lots of 1 of 1 Porsches out there.