bustamelon
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I'll be picking mine up on Saturday, finally. Been searching, finding, losing, wheeling, dealing, haggling, fighting, calling, emailing, hanging up, cursing and caving in for over three months. I don't know if it's just the specific color/trim/tranny, but every time the one I wanted popped up, it was already gone. I even had one salesman looking for me. He called me to say he had it. When I called back, he told me, nope, the manager had a buyer for it already, and it was still at the port waiting for a truck to bring it to the lot.
In the end, I had almost no bargaining leverage. I got my Titanium iGT 6MT Hatch w/ Fogs for $23590 plus $399 "conveyance fee" (pure profit "doc" fee that no CT dealer will budge on), $115 DMV, $1536 tax. So 25,640 OTD. About $1000 under MSRP I guess. No incentives. I'll tell you what -- the salesman really earned it. Our email thread is something like 90 messages long. Could have done worse, but reading this board, I sure could've done a lot better! No matter, it will be my first NEW new car, and I'm going to appreciate the ish out of it.
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Oh yeah, also get "lifetime oil change" deal with that, though I don't know exactly how that works. I usually do synthetic so I can go longer between service, but I don't imagine that's gonna fly here.
In the end, I had almost no bargaining leverage. I got my Titanium iGT 6MT Hatch w/ Fogs for $23590 plus $399 "conveyance fee" (pure profit "doc" fee that no CT dealer will budge on), $115 DMV, $1536 tax. So 25,640 OTD. About $1000 under MSRP I guess. No incentives. I'll tell you what -- the salesman really earned it. Our email thread is something like 90 messages long. Could have done worse, but reading this board, I sure could've done a lot better! No matter, it will be my first NEW new car, and I'm going to appreciate the ish out of it.
** Edit:
Oh yeah, also get "lifetime oil change" deal with that, though I don't know exactly how that works. I usually do synthetic so I can go longer between service, but I don't imagine that's gonna fly here.
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