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the "May 08" could be the compliance date, which is the silver metal plate pop rivetted on the left rear passenger door pillar. The build plate is a black label on the front left hand passenger door pillar with "Toyota Motor Corporation Japan" on it. Towards the bottom of the black label should be a "Plant built" line with the date expressed in DD Month YY (e.g. 31 MAR 08)

I ordered my silver Corolla Conquest Manual Sedan on 16th February and took delivery of it on 30th April, the car has build date of 31st March 2008. I assume Toyota keeps plenty of Ascent models in stock looking at the recent toyota motoring section newspaper ads (possibly without the cruise/safety option packs, i'm not sure how popular these may be with buyers?), as without those them the dealers can probably sell stock quicker and achieve high sales volumes. But basically any other grades and/or moonroof option (for Levin ZR) or the safety/cruise pack options, transmission and colour/trim combinations, the dealers have to place an order with the Toyota factory in Nagoya Japan. I was told that manual Conquest sedans are quite rare, thats why i think my order in Feburary was attached on to the last of the March 2008 production run (assuming that Toyota plans and produces the Corollas one month in advance or something like that depending on supply and demand)