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Future Vehicles 2008 Subaru Impreza WRX
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Replying to: rascal99 (Sep 10, 2008 5:28 am)
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Replying to: sbcooke (Sep 11, 2008 5:17 am)
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Replying to: rascal99 (Sep 11, 2008 5:24 am)
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List price doesn't mean much nowadays. It's basically the upper limit before people will say dealers are charging a markup for popular cars. In rare cases, MSRP is set too low, like with the GT-R, and then the manufacturer raises prices to stop dealer gouging. I don't think that happened with the STI, so IMHO Subaru set the MSRP at the right level. It's all a guessing game. Too low and dealers mark them up. Too high and the press has a field day. |
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My neighbor's cousin hooked me up with employee pricing. Invoice - dealer holdback on the car + invoice on all accessories. MSRP...When I got my MDX it was trading for over MSRP...the good news was that they couldn't NOT sell it to me for more than MSRP, they did try, I put my foot down and they backed down...but I had to wait. New ones that were unallocated were going to the highest bidder. Sometime 2-3k over MSRP. I don't feel cheated getting the 2002 MDX at MSRP...still one of the best cars on the road in my opinion. In today's market with everyone knowing invoice, dealer costs, etc...MSRP seems like a relic of days gone by. We all know how much the car costs to make and deliver. The rest is profit. I don't deny dealers profit, but I wish it was like buying something at target...the car costs 123 and that is what you and everyone pays final. Profit built in. I am happy though that today I am able to get a car armed with huge amounts of information and can negotiate the best price that I feel good about. I know my dad, that when this car pricing internet revolution broke...wanted to go back to the trusted salesguy who had been selling him cars for the last 30 years "at his best price" to go and tell him a thing or two. Instead he took his business elsewhere. I think of all the people that were clobbered unwittingly over the years at car dealerships and tend to wonder about auto salespeople's ethics...I read the edmunds confessions of a car salesman...whew.
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Replying to: sbcooke (Sep 13, 2008 4:41 am) It is less common because the overall car market is way down, plus there are many more vehicles in the MDX' class now. Forester, too. In 1998 it was Forester, RAV4, CR-V, that's about it. Everything else was a truck. |
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Replying to: dino001 (Sep 11, 2008 7:54 am) You also get it if you participate in the 48hrs of Tri-state Rally. http://48hrs.info -mike |
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If anyone is in the So Cal area, Irvine Subaru, Long Beach Subaru, Thousand Oaks Subaru, and others have the new 2009 WRX's in. I felt a big difference in power in the 09 WRX. The car kept pulling up to 6000 rpm's. The moon roof and red stitching looks sweet!!! Not a big fan of the rims.
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Replying to: nerd1 (Sep 16, 2008 12:24 pm)
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Replying to: volkov (Sep 16, 2008 2:39 pm) -mike |
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