The sales price numbers I quoted are at the top of the purchase order before rebates and trade.
Those are the real numbers to purchase the vehicle whether I had a trade or not.
Given that Mazda has no incentives right now on the 2019 CX5's and that Mazda's holdback is paltry (I think 1%), a cash deal would have them selling the car (a brand new model just hitting the lots) at a significant loss.
Regardless, sounds like you got a great deal on a very nice car.
- Mark
I have the same basic?'s. Does anyone understand the Mazda numbers?
Guys say shoot for 10% off MSRP. However dealer margin is about 4-5% (MSRP vs. Invoice). Where's this other 5%+ come from? It's either a much higher holdback then 1% or special dealer incentives/volume bonus quotas direct from Mazda or dealer incentives for aged inventory.
Anyone know how the Mazda game is played?
*Dealer invoice* is a phony number. Plenty to read on the internet about why you should ignore it. But I am also interested if anyone knows how the Mazda/dealer money game works.
+1.
Might be a real number, but other transactions are going on between the dealer and the company to change the equation.
Never happen because of us.... Joe Consumer.
Dealer: Ok so here's a 34,000 car. It costs us 26,000.
Consumer: So you're making 8,000? **** you, that's too much.
(Never mind only $1500 of that is profit)
They'd never sell cars if you knew what they actually made on them. [emoji38]
I've talked to 4 different dealerships today. The should have the GTRs arriving sometime in CA in the next two weeks. Good thing is, the dealerships made it really easy to narrow down which one I wanted to work with. 1 told me that they didn't have abny 2019's (even though they were on the website), 1 told me that I should get a 2018 instead, 1 told me that there wasn't any different in the GTR and the GT. Finally, 1 told me that they didn't have my color combo coming into CA, but that they would try and grab me one that was going somewhere else and have been giving me updates since I talked to them a couple hours ago.
The only color I would want the Signature in is white. Otherwise, I'm really weird about color combinations and anything gray or silver on the outside would look funky with brown leather interior (to me).
I have the same basic?'s. Does anyone understand the Mazda numbers?
Guys say shoot for 10% off MSRP. However dealer margin is about 4-5% (MSRP vs. Invoice). Where's this other 5%+ come from? It's either a much higher holdback then 1% or special dealer incentives/volume bonus quotas direct from Mazda or dealer incentives for aged inventory.
Anyone know how the Mazda game is played?