Just got back from a dealership where they had a European GT Sedan in the showroom (mostly so you could get a "flavor" for the car) and a Sport for test drives. Sweet car. Without even driving it (didn't have time and someone else had it out for a ride) I'm pretty much sold on this car.
The dealer principle was very friendly and up front and gave me quite an overview of the technology. We got into the price discussions, and I said "I assume you are selling them for MSRP with no discount due to popularity?"
He said no. He said he doesn't like the haggling thing, so he sets "one price" for his dealership which incorporates some discount off MSRP (obviously not lots of discount on a low margin item like this). Similar to what Access Toyota does, he said.
So we sat down and spec'd out this car (this is what I want to buy)
Titanium GT with Leather, GFX, Auto (don't laugh, wife will be driving it and hates sticks) transmission.
He said they include free wheel locks.
The price he gave me before tax (which we discussed as his "best price"), with freight in, was 25,915.13
I said that's pre-tax, he said yes. I said what's the admin fee? He said no admin fee.
I'm confused.
Not only does that not appear to be a discounted price, it seems to be higher than MSRP from the "build and price" section of the website. I priced it on the web and the total MSRP + freight was 25,508.95. So his quote is not discounted from what I can tell, and is actually ~ 400 bucks higher than MSRP....is that not correct?
Keep thinking I'm missing something here.
Baffled.
I used "carcostcanada" and it gave me MSRP of 25,407.00 Getting different numbers everywhere I go.
The dealer principle was very friendly and up front and gave me quite an overview of the technology. We got into the price discussions, and I said "I assume you are selling them for MSRP with no discount due to popularity?"
He said no. He said he doesn't like the haggling thing, so he sets "one price" for his dealership which incorporates some discount off MSRP (obviously not lots of discount on a low margin item like this). Similar to what Access Toyota does, he said.
So we sat down and spec'd out this car (this is what I want to buy)
Titanium GT with Leather, GFX, Auto (don't laugh, wife will be driving it and hates sticks) transmission.
He said they include free wheel locks.
The price he gave me before tax (which we discussed as his "best price"), with freight in, was 25,915.13
I said that's pre-tax, he said yes. I said what's the admin fee? He said no admin fee.
I'm confused.
Not only does that not appear to be a discounted price, it seems to be higher than MSRP from the "build and price" section of the website. I priced it on the web and the total MSRP + freight was 25,508.95. So his quote is not discounted from what I can tell, and is actually ~ 400 bucks higher than MSRP....is that not correct?
Keep thinking I'm missing something here.
Baffled.
I used "carcostcanada" and it gave me MSRP of 25,407.00 Getting different numbers everywhere I go.
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