I believe that right now only package 4, 7 and 9 are available.

I have recently been looking at the Prius and I have heard conflicting reports from two dealers in the Washington, DC metro area.

One told me that they received an e-mail from Toyota that basically said certain packages were being discontinued in order to try to meet consumer demand. He wrote me the following:

> Second is what packages you can order. Previously Toyota only allowed
> packages 4, 7, and 9 to be built. That's changed. To speed up production
> Toyota has cut out special orders on the Prius and only are allowing
> packages 4, 5, and 8. The reason it changed was it took to long to make the
> top #9 with everything. Moving from 7 to 5 was easy because almost to a
> person everyone wanted the 6 cd changer and cassette player with upgraded
> speakers. #7 didn't have that.
>
> They kept #4 because it's a good all around package, popular, and they were
> already building them.

However, I spoke to another local dealer on the phone who said that they had also received the e-mail from Toyota but that this was not a definite change in available packages and that they had yet to have a confirmation that this was going to happen. He said that their most current knowledge is that shipments arriving in November to December should still be package 4, 7 and 9, but after that they are not sure.