I received my Fortuner on 11 Jan, I was lucky that it was invoiced on 1st Jan and despatched on 3rd Jan. So I marginally escaped from FED and it's additional impact on registration cost as this was also going to increase around 20K to 30K. In fact Indus itself was in hurry that despite increase in freight charges by 5K they didn't bother to ask for bank draft of 5K, they just invoiced and despatched and at time of delivery they took 5K. Strange thing was that dealership had no clue of that and told me that vehicle is on hold in Karachi until FED issue is resolved. By chance I called Indus and enquired and they informed me that vehicle has long been despatched. I called dealership and found them again totally ignorant and dealership again insisted that vehicle still in Karachi. But next day dealership called and informed me that your vehicle out of blue has reached Lahore. I have been told by my one friend working in Indus that next increase in Toyota cars is on card as long as USD pulls back to 172 or below as due to current inflation, price increase is imminent, so my advise would be who ever want to book, do that full payment as previously I thought it is useless but now I believe it has surely edge.
