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Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Toyota Sequoia Prices Paid and Buying Experience
1709 messages, Last post on Dec 05, 2009 at 2:26 AM
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I got a little lucky - I think. It was a pretty cold day down here in Texas along with the Auto Show in town for the weekend. They seemed a bit desperate that they had only sold 2 cars the entire day and it was after 5:00pm. My car had a MSRP of $41,228. I got them down to $37,750 - $3500 off of sticker. I might have gotten them down to $37,500 but my wife was starting to get a little waery of the whole process. 
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| I am new to this board and welcome all the info I can get on my Sequoia. We leased ours last April and the dealer paid off 3 months of the trade-in lease, didn't take the vehicle for trade, we sold that one for what the bank wanted. We got the Sequoia out the door for 41,000, plus a check for 1500 to pay off the lease. I think we did ok, no money out of our pockets at all. We used the info from Edmund's on how to arrange a lease and it worked great! | |
| I am new to this board and welcome all the info I can get on my Sequoia. We leased ours last April and the dealer paid off 3 months of the trade-in lease, didn't take the vehicle for trade, we sold that one for what the bank wanted. We got the Sequoia Ltd fully loaded, top of the line gold package and all out the door for 41,000, plus a check for 1500 to pay off the lease. I think we did ok, no money out of our pockets at all. We used the info from Edmund's on how to arrange a lease and it worked great! | |
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I plan to buy one next week. Price I was offerred is $37,000 drive out. (6% Tax) Model 2002 SEQUOIA SR5 Options are Roof Rack, Leather Captains Chairs, Alloy Wheel Package, Convenience Package, Dual AC, Keyless, Fog Lamps, Daytime Lights, Mats. Let me know if anybody elso got a better deal. |
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| Just picked up my '02 SR5 4x2 this weekend. It's essentially the same vehicle as yours...minus the daytime RL's. Price paid was $34,550 plus tax, title, license. That's about $3,500 off MSRP. Total out the door...$38,041. AZ tax is a bit higher (7.2%) and license fees are calculated relative to the vehicle book value, which in the case of a Sequoia can be steep. Hope this helps. | |
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Start with www.carsdirect.com. I consider this a baseline price although you might be able to do better. Edmunds.com pricing, I have found is a little unrealistic for Sequoia anyway - if you found a dealer willing to sell you a vehicle at that price - buy! Also, don't just walk into the dealer and ask for a price. Submit a price quote request through a site such as www.edmunds.com, msn, aol, etc. To do so on Edmunds select the Sequoia your looking for though the new car menu, configure and you should get to an option for a price request. You can avoid a lot of hassle because you get connected to a dealers "Internet" department and there pricing is competitive even for a Sequoia in todays economy. I found Toyota way to proud and unwilling to deal off MSRP until the last few months on the Sequoia. The Toyota dealers will deal now, however! Cheers! |
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I wanted to lease, so I looked at fully loading an SR5 rather than buying an LTD. (The residual is higher on the SR5). We got the Alloy Wheel, Convenience, and Preferred Packages, as well as rear spoiler, floor mats, sunroof, head/side curtain airbags, Keyless, DRL, etc. The car had a factory invoice of $40116. In Florida, you're typically stuck with Jim Moran's distributorship ordering base cars and then doing his own option packages to the car. Done that way, the car would have had a much higher MSRP and would not have had the 6-disc in-dash changer and possibly not the side curtain airbags. Edmunds.com is not much help, since Moran's packages don't exactly mirror Toyota's factory packages. I went to the dealer and insisted that I wanted the "PM" Preferred Package with the 6-disc in dash CD player, leather, power/lumbar seats, etc. I also told them I wanted the side curtain airbags. I spoke with 3 dealers and an independent leasing agent, and they all told me I'd never find a Preferred Package and side curtain airbags on an SR5 on a Florida Toyota dealer's lot. I knew they were out there (via an inventory search on Toyota.com) but in limited supply with these options. I pressed the issue, and low and behold they located one coming in 2 weeks. I got the truck for $37400. I pushed and pushed to get that number lower, but they wouldn't budge. $2700 off MSRP for a car with difficult options to find wasn't bad. They showed me an invoice of about $36,400...but I know that number had holdback and dealer advertising. I suspect they made a little over $2000 on me, but I got the *exact* vehilce I wanted at the payment I wanted. Final numbers: 36month, 15000 mile/year lease with $1000 due at inception (1st month payment, tags, FL fee, and about $125 downpayment against the cap cost). $618/mo.x 35 payments remaining (that figure includes 6% sales tax). Had I purchased the vehicle with 5 year financing, I'd have had an $800 payment (if tax was rolled into the financed amount). If the car wasn't so damn hot (and the options I wanted weren't so hard to find in this area), I'd have gotten the payment a considerable amount under $600/month. |
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I had a hard time finding the SR5 with just the options I want. I called Reinhardt Toyota in Montgomery, Alabama. I got the best deal and service I have ever had. I told them I was willing to pay $1500 over invoice. They had an SR5 on the lot similar to what I wanted. The only problem was it had leather and I didn't want leather. Well, rather than try and search for a vehicle and transfer one they offered me the one on their lot for $1000 over invoice. There are no documentations fees or any other fees. The only thing on my contract is the price of the vehicle, sales tax, and title fee($16.50). And they gave me a rate that matched my bank (6.75%  72 months). I fully recommend Reinhardt Toyota.
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| I have a test drive scheduled for Mon. I have time to do a factory order so I've seen some of the suggestions for options, stereo upgrade, keyless entry and convenience pkg. Is there anything else? The dealer told me they have an "internet deal" of 3% over delaer invoice. I'm looking at an SR5 4x2, mostly because that's what I can afford with some options (Dual Air, upgraded captains chairs,keyless entry, daytime running lights and styled wheels). MSRP $33,785, Dealer inv. $30,448, my price $31,361. I'll probably add the alloy wheel pkg and spoiler and upgrade the stereo. Still need to compare with 2 other local dealers. Thanks for any input. | |
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Picked up my Jade Green Ltd 4x4 on March 15 After 5 month wait. Here in Canada, Sequoias only come in the 4x4 version and the Ltd comes completely loaded. (ie. spoiler, side curtain airbags, moonroof etc. are standard features). I got a special deal from the dealer due to some unfortunate previous circumstances, but the total I paid, I will convert to US dollars using a $0.63 Canadian dollar and excluding federal and provincial sales taxes (which add up to 17.5%) Base = $53,250 CDN ($33,550 US) PDI* = $ 1,675 CDN ($ 1,050 US) TOTAL = $54,925 CDN ($34,600 US) *PDI includes freight, Pre-delivery inspection, documentation, Federal air tax of $100.00, provincial tire and battery levy of $20.00, and undercoating costing $195.00 If you add back in the sales taxes of 17.5% (some $9600.00 CDN or $6050 US) it was pretty darn expensive!!! |
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