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Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Lexus IS 250 / IS 350 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
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Replying to: lam0279 (Sep 01, 2007 9:36 am) I'm also looking for a 2007 (if the price is right) or I'd wait for a 2008 IS 250. |
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| I am looking for IS350 with Nav. 2008 come out with the lowest options that has Navi for $5200+. What price should i be looking for IS350 with Navi. I live in LA. Can i get bargain price for 2007 IS350/Navi. I have 740+credit score and If I am leasing for 15k/36months what lease term will be good for me. Please help me. thanks | |
| O.K. Finished the purchase. Two weeks ago. I live in San Diego and I contacted all the Lexus dealerships from San Diego, Orange County and Los Angeles. First of all everyone was nice at all the dealerships. Newport Beach Lexus with Gil Hayes ( where we bought the car Newport Lexus, 2007 IS 250 RWD prem pack, no navi $30,445 price 33,190 OTD About 800 below invoice. Breakwater Blue with Casemere, Wife’s car. She is happy) . The San Deigo dealers as I say all were nice but just did not have the car or did not have the price break below invoice. A close second was Longo but did not have the exact car. They had it in Black with casemere Quoted $30,300. but my wife just could not deal with a black car. I liked it. The point people who stand out to me were at Longo were Jeff Winnerty and Ben (sorry forgot last name, I think he was the manager, close out man ) Now that all said how do you go about getting the best price. Well save your self time and stress. Call Gill Hayes at Newport Lexus. If this is not in your area then in my opinion what I found works best, is yes make your first contact with the internet group at the dealership. Then as they e-mail you back price and availiblity you then give them a call. Find out the details. Talk to the internet person. If they are reasonable fine. If not make a cold call to the same dealership with another salesman and tell him/her what you want. If either the initial internet contact or the second sales contact turns up what you want then YOU MUST GET IT CONFIRMED!! Call again same day to 2-3 days later. Ask to speak with the manager of sales (close out man) in other words get to the top man. AND MAKE SURE THE CAR AND PRICE ARE REAL AND IT IS AVAILIBLE!! This will work. I hope this helps I appreciated all the posts here they helped me I hope this helps you. I hear 2008 IS is seliing for about $1,000 above invoice. The car is GREAT and very luxyrous. As for BMW I test drove it and was strongly considering it. Basically everyone who I know that owns a BMW advised me aganaist it (3 series) They all said it is a great car the BMW. (And I think it is a great car to) but the repair bills after the 4-10 years (we plan on keeping our cars for a long time) these bills are very expensive to upkeep the car. So the decision was cost of maintance and I test drove the BMW I did not fell it was as smooth as the LEXUS IS. But keep in mine I am 50 years old and I am not worried about going 60 MPH around a corner. I also looked at the Acuca TSX nice car but I test drove it and it felt a bit rough and just did not feel right to me. Good car and good company (Honda). I got to go now, got a date with my wife in the new Lexus. To bad is is her car. It’s fun to drive. Buy one. Again thank you. | |
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Got a lease deal of $429 per month for 36 mos. w/ 0 money down , no security deposit and 12K miles. Total cost of lease with taxes, titling and fees is $15,600+. Residual value is $19,372, which seems high (meaning I will likely walk away from car--I couldn't get them to budge on that one). It is the standard RWD model w/premium package but no navigation that has invoice price of $31,186. Could have bought car for $1600 under invoice, which I know was a good deal. But I wanted less financial commitment upfront and ability to walk away from car after 3 years. Was the lease deal okay? I'm in Cal. |
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Replying to: kyfdx (Oct 14, 2005 7:44 pm) What is a reasonable price for a year-end 2007 IS250 AWD 4-door sedan in the Seattle WA region? Should it be around invoice? If below, how much below? Many thanks in advance! |
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2007 Auto Luxury package [base package for CA] No NAV Breakwater blue/Gray interior Got the final price of $32,682.01 OTD This was acheived by asking for price match of $30,000+fees. I was a bit skeptical about this price [maybe could've gone lower?]  ...sales rep seems happy with matching it but not offering lower - I was too excited and couldn't put on a poker face to lower the cost. Was this really a decent deal...it looks like invoice is $31,285 [sales rep had the paperwork to prove it] The three Lexus dealers [Newport/Tustin/Desert] should be able to make this offer for any 2007 No NAV. I basically haggled down with one sales rep and then at his wits end, I backed out and went with a a sales rep I had a better feeling with [also my dialog back and forth with the guy was great]. Since the wheels were chrome, they needed to replace with stock alloy wheels, but ran out! Sales rep gave me the graphite '08 wheels instead - for free! Pure luck and good timing. This might sound silly, but I think carrying a shiny black book around made me seem like a smart buyer. I only had 4 pages filled with numbers and half were for the TSX =) Before I even took the book out the the Lexus/Acura lots, no one was taking me seriously or giving me decent prices.
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A dealer offered 37,200 out the door for a 2008 IS250 with an MSRP of 38,132. I was after an IS350 so I did not pursue this price, but it seems rather low for the new model year vehicle. Does this sound right? It will give me an idea of where to start my IS350 negotiations.
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Replying to: mwpman (Sep 30, 2007 11:40 pm) |
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Replying to: mrdasani (Sep 29, 2007 2:46 am) |
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Hey guys, Back in the summer of '03 when I got my first real job out of college, I was able to get my dream car, the IS 300 (year '01). Unfortunately, it died an early death in Spring '04 when I was rear ended into another car. So, since I couldn't find a good deal on another IS, I bought a un-fun but practical new '04 accord EXL-NAVI and have been waiting to buy another IS ever since. Last night we bought my wife's car (an '07 Accord Coupe EXL-NAVI - story here if anyone's interested: srizvi1, "Honda Accord Prices Paid and Buying Experience" #17540, 1 Oct 2007 7:20 am ), and decided that once we pay it off (hopefully in a year's time), I'll be due to buy an IS again and I can hand off my current '04 Accord to my mom. So, I'm gonna subscribe to this thread and watch prices for a while and hopefully one day join you IS owners again. Maybe in a year's time I'll get rich and be able to get the IS-F. Otherwise, it'll prob be an IS350. Let's see what the future holds. |
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