Edmunds.com | Inside Line | Auto Observer Your Account | Help | Directory
You are here:
![[F]](http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/townhall/webxicons/site.gif){kind=small}
Forums
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Suzuki SX4 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
164 messages, Last post on Aug 19, 2009 at 4:58 AM
You are in the Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Forum. Your Hosts are car_man & kyfdx
| Speaking of Dwayne Lane's in Everett, I went to try to buy an SX4 today (2008 SX4 Crossover w/Touring II). They offered invoice, which was okay (but not as good as another dealer offer I had), but they wouldn't give me a good price on my trade-in. We did the silly back-and-forth between the sales manager and the faceless guy somewhere in the back room (the usual good-cop, bad-cop routine, just like an episode of "Deal, No Deal"). After I showed them the Kelly Blue Book trade-in quote which matched what I wanted, they came back and said they use nadaguides which had a lower trade-in quote than Kelly Blue Book, but then proceeded to only offer me $1,000 _under_ what nadaguides said. Even with my lowest offer for my trade-in, I know they could have easily made at least $2,000 profit on a re-sale (my trade-in was a late model popular car that even has some original warranty left on it). But they wouldn't budge, so I walked out. When I went home, I only then realized that the nadaguides printout didn't even reflect all the extras on my car. So not only did they not honor the nadaguide price they at first said they used, they also were not honest in the printout they showed me. I know they're out to make a buck, but it's unfortunate that they took the usual dealer games to that level of dishonesty. | |
Seattle area. Got the 2008 SX4 Crossover w/Touring II, automatic, & the arm-rest accessory for $17,629 + tax. That's vs. $17,876 invoice ($17,251 + $625 destination) + $129 retail for arm rest, so I think I got a good deal.
|
|
|
|
|
Replying to: perry99 (Oct 25, 2007 12:48 pm) Also I'm curious about the armrest. Is it a storage armrest? Please keep posting your comments here. Thanks, Rob
|
|
|
Replying to: crazedcommuter (Oct 25, 2007 3:41 pm) |
|
|
|
| Went to my dealer (I have a sx4 Sport on order) and he informed me of the new rebate. When I got home, I verified on the Suzuki website. It applies to ALL sx4 types and years. Made my day! There is also $500 rebates for military service, recent graduate, repeat buyer. | |
|
Desimone Suzuki runs classified ads stating they'd "like to buy your car." I needed to sell an extra car (not a Suzuki), a very low mileage 2004 import in MINT condition, so I visited Desimone Suzuki and spoke with the manger, who told me he had the authority to negotiate a price. After he carefully inspected my car and test drove it, we agreed on a price and a deal was made, so I thought. Then it needed to be inspected on a"lift" which couldn't happen until day #2 because all the "lifts" were tied up for the balance of the day. On day #2 he couldn't schedule a time when the lifts weren't busy, obviously Suzuki's require lots of "lift" time, so we agreed to consummate the deal on day #3. I called him at 9:15AM on day #3 and he told me that in addition to the "lift" inspection, the owner needed to sign off on all transactions and he'd call me when the owner arrived. I asked him, "will this happen today?" and he replied "absolutely." I called again at 12:30PM and the owner still hadn't arrived but to wait for his call, which I did - no call. On day #4 I phoned him at 10:00AM and he told me that he was with a customer and he'd call me back in 10 minutes. On Day #5, at 8:45AM I phoned the owner to explain the sequence of events, and he also gave me the run-around, bordering on rude - apparently company policy. By noon on day #5 I sold the car to another dealer and had the check in my hand. Bottom line is avoid Desimone Suzuki. Watching their cable ads, their business model is to sell cars to people with poor credit who shop payments. There are plenty of excellent cars in that price range and certainly better dealers. Buy a Honda, a Toyota or a Nissan where the the manufacturer is very concerned with the how their dealers treat customers. |
|
|
As of December 5th, 2007 Suzuki's website lists $500 Factory cash and $500 Holiday cash for my zip code. Does anyone know if this can be combined for $1000 and if just one or both are lieu of the low APR deals? Thx.
|
|
|
Replying to: stanwict (Dec 05, 2007 8:15 am) Talisman Suzuki was where I purchased it from. |
|
New 2008 SX4 Crossover w/touring package, manual trans. Car stickered  $17,400.00. Bombarded every Suzuki dealer in the area till I got what I wanted....Utilizing $1,000.00 factory cash back, plus another $500.00 factory coupon from Boston autoshow and some serious negotiations, walked out of dealer (less reg. & taxes) for $15,049.00! Stole it, for sure. I would suggest finding a Suzuki dealer that is new and trying to establish themselves as the dealer I went to was. No other dealer wanted to touch his price as this dealer got into his holdback dollars just to sell me a car.
|
|
| Our Allroad is getting up there in miles, so we went shopping for something more economical and still AWD for the heavy snows of winter in central MA. I had seen the SX4 at the Boston Autoshow and thought it was pretty well equipped for the money. The only two items it was missing were height adjustable seats and heated seats that I thought may be a deal breaker for my wife given the Audi has them. Once she sat in the car she loved it. With the $1000 price break and the $500 autoshow cash, it didn't take too long to get to a deal. We got an SX4 AWD Automatic with Touring Package in Azure Grey plus added the cargo net, self dimming mirror, center armrest and rear bumper protector/step guard. Out the door price was $17,300 plus MA 5% sales tax. We've been driving it around all day and love it. The visibilty is great to see over the snow piles on the road corners. We had two of our teen daughters in the back for a lunch run and they had plenty of room, even with 6'5" me having the seat back all the way. My wife is 5'1", so it says a lot when a car fits both of us well. Of other vehicles shopped - the Subaru Outback LL Bean wagon (cloth seat version without sunroof) was $10K more and didn't have some of the features the SX4 has. It had Nav and heated seats, but lacked steering wheel radio controls, subwoofer, switchable AWD modes, keyless start, and had really poor rear seat legroom with me in front. The Audi A4 Avant was $34K to even come close to the same feature set as the SX4. | |
You are here:
Forums
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Suzuki SX4 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
New? Join Now!
Forum Tools
Search Forums
Browse by Vehicle
2009 Suzuki SX4
Browse by Board
Browse by Topic
Today's Chats
