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Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS
This was my experience with OpenRoad Toyota for a different car. No realistic ETA for any single car. No cars on lot and there's barely any floor models. They said they expect the shortage to be in effect for the next two years.
Waitlist for Supra is 1 year rn
Waitlist for RAV4 Prime is 3 years
LOL
I wonder if it's affecting Toyota more heavily, because they depend on very efficient operational processes. They were the first to implement and perfect JIT (just in time) and Kaizen to that effect. That usually means they only had enough raw materials to cover what they need at that point in time and expected a backorder at their regular interval.
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I thought Toyota has abandoned JIT for some of their processes as it no longer is as efficient as they original imagined and that's why they were actually only recently started getting hit by the shortage.
The hybrid, prime, and Sienna shortage has been a thing since before pandemic. Sienna waitlist was already 6 months in 2019.