hi all,
lurker here who has to say thanks to all who have helped out in explaining and showing the pricing info they've gotten. it has helped immensely and is far better than reddit's /mazda group and definitely better than /askcarsales (at least for pricing info). that being said i wanna also give my nugget of info and experience in this. this was in southern california/los angeles area.
2016.5 CX-5 FWD White Touring w/o any option packages
- Emailed about 8 dealerships within 100 miles of downtown using their website "Contact us" sections using newly created gmail (it filled up quick so highly recommended)
- 5 responses. Weirdly the highest Yelp rated Mazda dealership didn't respond at all.
- Dealership A by far had the best price right off the bat and gave the best breakdown of fees/taxes. The others gave prices way higher or just kept calling and telling me they couldn't do anything online but could "easily" beat that price.
- Dealership A person also emailed me to tell me that the white model I wanted was sold the day before I was scheduled to come in so I asked if they could do a dealer swap with the nearby ones and they got the car in the same day. Inventory of the other dealerships for a base Touring model was waaaay higher than Dealership A cause I assume they've sold a bunch of theirs.
- PM me for dealership info if you wanna save time doing online. Didn't wanna put any on blast here on the forum.
Now the info you really want from just email correspondence (I didn't have Mazda loyalty or military promos at all):
1) MSRP: $26,315 ($200 extra for the white paint)
2) Initial quoted price: $24,378
3) Initial Discount: $1,937 (7.4% off MSRP)
4) Doc fee: $80
5) License/Title: $258
6) Tire/Battery/VTR Fee: $8.75
7) Other fee: $29
8) Tax: $1956 (based on 8% x (price + $80 doc fee))
9) Total: $26,710
That was just the price through email. We went in a week later and got them to take $100 more off ($24,280 price) so the discount was 7.7%. We kinda just wanted the car at that point since the wife's lease had ended a few weeks ago and I was kind of over being her personal Uber driver since she didn't wanna drive my 4Runner. I had asked for $26,000 OTD (~10% off MSRP) through email and they literally didn't even counter and said they couldn't do it so we took the 7.7% off.
Final Price: $24,280
OTD (8% tax and fees above): $26,605
They had a 0.0% APR for 60 months dealership special along with 4 free oil changes till end of June. Qualification for that was a credit score above 730 they said which we got. I asked about Mazda's promotion and they said Mazda are less stringent so you only need a score above 670 (I think....sorry, can remember exactly). We got GAP from them since we put $0 down which I'm gonna cancel in a few days (full refund within 60 days) when I find a better/cheaper coverage. I just didn't want the worst to happen on the drive home that night.
Hope this helps people and hoping you can all save some money/do better than I did (magical 10% off MSRP). Wife loves the car and I'm super jealous of all the standard features that came with it. Makes my 4Runner look like a Model T. The CX will eventually be my car when our Tesla Model 3 gets delivered (if ever) so looking forward to that day.
Again thanks to all on this forum who provided such amazing info! You saved us a nice amount of money and confusion in this process!
lurker here who has to say thanks to all who have helped out in explaining and showing the pricing info they've gotten. it has helped immensely and is far better than reddit's /mazda group and definitely better than /askcarsales (at least for pricing info). that being said i wanna also give my nugget of info and experience in this. this was in southern california/los angeles area.
2016.5 CX-5 FWD White Touring w/o any option packages
- Emailed about 8 dealerships within 100 miles of downtown using their website "Contact us" sections using newly created gmail (it filled up quick so highly recommended)
- 5 responses. Weirdly the highest Yelp rated Mazda dealership didn't respond at all.
- Dealership A by far had the best price right off the bat and gave the best breakdown of fees/taxes. The others gave prices way higher or just kept calling and telling me they couldn't do anything online but could "easily" beat that price.
- Dealership A person also emailed me to tell me that the white model I wanted was sold the day before I was scheduled to come in so I asked if they could do a dealer swap with the nearby ones and they got the car in the same day. Inventory of the other dealerships for a base Touring model was waaaay higher than Dealership A cause I assume they've sold a bunch of theirs.
- PM me for dealership info if you wanna save time doing online. Didn't wanna put any on blast here on the forum.
Now the info you really want from just email correspondence (I didn't have Mazda loyalty or military promos at all):
1) MSRP: $26,315 ($200 extra for the white paint)
2) Initial quoted price: $24,378
3) Initial Discount: $1,937 (7.4% off MSRP)
4) Doc fee: $80
5) License/Title: $258
6) Tire/Battery/VTR Fee: $8.75
7) Other fee: $29
8) Tax: $1956 (based on 8% x (price + $80 doc fee))
9) Total: $26,710
That was just the price through email. We went in a week later and got them to take $100 more off ($24,280 price) so the discount was 7.7%. We kinda just wanted the car at that point since the wife's lease had ended a few weeks ago and I was kind of over being her personal Uber driver since she didn't wanna drive my 4Runner. I had asked for $26,000 OTD (~10% off MSRP) through email and they literally didn't even counter and said they couldn't do it so we took the 7.7% off.
Final Price: $24,280
OTD (8% tax and fees above): $26,605
They had a 0.0% APR for 60 months dealership special along with 4 free oil changes till end of June. Qualification for that was a credit score above 730 they said which we got. I asked about Mazda's promotion and they said Mazda are less stringent so you only need a score above 670 (I think....sorry, can remember exactly). We got GAP from them since we put $0 down which I'm gonna cancel in a few days (full refund within 60 days) when I find a better/cheaper coverage. I just didn't want the worst to happen on the drive home that night.
Hope this helps people and hoping you can all save some money/do better than I did (magical 10% off MSRP). Wife loves the car and I'm super jealous of all the standard features that came with it. Makes my 4Runner look like a Model T. The CX will eventually be my car when our Tesla Model 3 gets delivered (if ever) so looking forward to that day.
Again thanks to all on this forum who provided such amazing info! You saved us a nice amount of money and confusion in this process!