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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 25, 2008 2:58 pm) |
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Replying to: klissel (Jun 24, 2008 5:49 am) At 4-500 dollars, when sold at MSRP, they are already a little above invoice! At 1000.00 below invoice, they lost a lot of money. Did you have a trade in?
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 25, 2008 4:47 pm) Why would any dealer sell the car if they were going to lose money? Especially, if the car is easy to sell right now.
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Replying to: nichevo (Jun 22, 2008 10:12 am)
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Replying to: nichevo (Jun 25, 2008 7:31 pm) I am replacing a 1997 Ford Ranger as well. We are having a child and my wife wanted me to get a car that we can both drive with a car seat in. We decided to keep the Ranger as a third vehicle and not trade it in. Here is the good news. By driving the honda fit everyday to and from work plus running errands as long as we put 12,000 miles on it a year, we will save over $500 in gas money compared to the 3.0 liter V6 Ranger. That $500 is enough money to pay for the ranger as a third car on our insurance policy. So basically moving from 2 to 3 vehicles is not costing us any extra money with the Fit's gas savings accounted for. |
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Replying to: klissel (Jun 25, 2008 6:23 pm) You tell me. I have no idea. Selling a car that is in high demand and short supply at a loss makes no sense whatever.
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Replying to: isellhondas (Jun 26, 2008 6:52 am) I'll give you a real world story however. In Febuaray of 2007 I sold a Honda Fit Sport A/T to a friend of mine. He drove it up until April of this year. In that time he put about 15000 miles on it. He advertised the car on carsoup and sold it in 24 hours for $300.00 MORE then what he paid for it. He hated to sell it but Northwest Airlines transfered him to Japan. To address the other thing, the national advertised invoice is $16158.00 with $321.40 in total hold back (HTP+1%). Here in Minneapolis the mark-up for a Fit Sport A/T is $382.00 (thanks to our $200.00 co-op advertising fee for the six metro dealers) + $321.40. So the actual cost of a Fit Sport A/T is $15836.60 ($16036.60 in the twin cities). So if you buy at MSRP or invoice you're getting an awesome deal and if you dont like the car you can always sell it and at the very least break even on it! |
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I bought a Honda Fit from Atamian Honda on the 19th. Let me tell you about our experience. Before sale: + Came straight out and said that they can't keep Automatics on the lot, so don't expect haggling. OK, MSRP is pretty decent -- 16,705 for the fit sport. $17,943 once you add in the tax and doc fees. + When we said that our credit union could give us 3.5% APR on a 36 month loan, while they only had 5% APR, they bought their rate down to 3.99% and gave us $75 cash -- which is difference in the interest we would pay if we went with 3.5% from the credit union. + Didn't try to sell us stuff we didn't want or need (paint "protection", extended warranties, etc.) at least partially because we said up front that we didn't want them. After Sale: - The only way I found out that my delivery date was when *I* called *them.* - The sales rep simply didn't want to talk to me when I called to check the status of the car. - They could not or would not explain why -- when the car has been sitting just 50 miles away for *4* days -- it hadn't arrived yet. - They would not "take ownership" of the delivery process, expecting everyone to just sit and wait for their car. My personal favorite is this. I got a call from the sales rep today to explain why the car was still in the rail yard in East Brookfield, MA. He tried to tell me that the transportation coordinator told him that "the car comes in to the US in Portland, OR, and the floods in the Midwest have slowed down deliveries." This would normally fly, except that the car has been in Massachusetts SINCE BEFORE MONDAY. If you want to feed me a bunch of BS, at least try to make it Plausible BS. Don't insult my intelligence. |
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Both come with A/C, which is great. I'm leaning toward the base model Fit, as I don't really need all extras the Sport comes with (though they are nifty.) However, does anybody know if the base model comes with that cargo cover thing in the back? I can't find this info anywhere on the net. The dealer only had the Sport on the lot when I was there buying a Civic last month.
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Replying to: igloomaster (Jun 26, 2008 12:41 pm) 
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