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1. "G" category stands for "Ground". This means that the vehicle has arrived on the ground at the port. Typically, it can vary from (in my region at lease) one to two/three weeks to arrive at the dealership from the Port. If the dealership has that inquiry, they also get an ETA or D-ETA. Those are usually pretty accurate, to within a day. As the time approaches, the D-ETA is narrowed down on DealerDaily so that the dealership can have an idea as to when to expect the inventory.

2. Damage to vehicles in freight are usually bumpers. In fact, that is the only time I have ever seen any damage received at our lots. There was one instance where there was extensive damage to a vehicle which our dealership never received because Toyota purchased the vehicle back from us before it ever landed. In fact, we had entered it into our Dealer Management System (separate from DealerDaily) and were concerned with it's not arriving. We would have otherwise had no idea we never got the vehicle. They allocated us a new vehicle identical to the one we would've received. If there was any damage to really be concerned about, Toyota would not be sending that truck to the dealership.

I had an experience at a luxury dealership which two vehicles were heavily damaged ($12,000 between two cars). We sold the vehicles at auction, and were able to collect the difference from the insurance company. Vehicles with a lot of damage do not make it to the consumer from new car dealerships. Smaller dealerships with seemingly brand new vehicles (like, incredibly low miles) are the ones that purchase them at auctions when they were damaged...