Find a different dealer. I live in alaska, and last week I purchased a cx5 from a oregon dealer in portland. I paid cash, and they handed me the car, the keys and the MSO. I will take the MSO and a one page form and walk into the Alaska DMV and walk out with my title and registration, done deal!! I purchased a new ford 3 years ago from a dealer in seattle and they weren't so ez. They would only fedex the MSO to my address on my drivers license. The Oregon mazda dealer said if the CX5 has a lien on it, then they would have had to send the MSO to the Alaska DMV directly. On all these transactions, the sales person was clueless. Go talk to the manager in the "business office" If you pay cash dont leave the building without the MSO. As far as titling the car in CA, just tell them its an out of state sale. In oregon for example YOU CAN NOT TITLE A CAR IN THAT STATE UNLESS YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF OREGON. per the Oregon dmv web site. Maybe look on the CA DMV web site, it might say the same thing, so maybe they could not leagally sell you the car titled in CA anyway. Is this a NEW or USED? is it cash/trade or finance/trade? If you can go to Ron Tonkin Mazda on portland and talk to stephanie, she knows what she is doing, or just buy the car from Ron Tonkin. California is kind of a screwed up state anyway
PS: California has no "standing" to charge you sales tax if your a WA state resident and title it in WA state, but you will pay WA state your 9.8% sales tax at the DMV when you title it. Your obligated to pay sales tax to where you title it Do you have a WA state drivers license?
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