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2013 and Earlier - Mazda3 Prices Paid and Buying Experience
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Below invoice on an RX-8? Pray tell how did you ever manage that??!!
For a new car design, only available for a few weeks with excellent initial reviews, I don't consider that an excessive price. Being treated professionally, without having to wade through all the BS, is worth something also.
I have a "Winning Blue" 3s Sedan with Automatic and the moonroof/6 cd changer option.
I wouldn't have minded getting the ABS package, but they didn't have any sedans in stock with it. (Sorry kids, but the 5-door screams "station wagon" to me.)
Jim
A) reliability challenged
or
hideously expensive to repair.
The extended warrantee may not be a manufacturer plan, but run buy a 3rd party that will (probably) do everything they can to avoid paying for your repairs. They often don't cover some of the trickier systems, and have loop-holes to avoid others. For instance, on my Oldsmobile Aurora the extended warrantee didn't cover a traction control system failure because it shared some components with the ABS system. (The ABS system was specifically excluded.)
So my opinion is don't worry about the extended plan. Inside of 60,000 miles, you'll know if the car is a problem or not.
You're right. But still, an owner should/probably will know by then whether the car has maintenance issues or not.
Jim
I could almost certainly have gone lower, but I saw Edmunds TMV and offered $100 less than that. I'm not really concerned that I could have gotten it for a few hundred less though...they gave me a pretty sweet 3.34% 60-month financing deal as well, and I'm optimistic that we'll enjoy the car tremendously (it's for my wife).
The sales experience was great at Russel Mazda near Baltimore. Nearly pressure-free all around, and the whole purchase took about an hour. We test drove the car, went home to think about it, and phoned in the offer a while later. They called back and accepted the offer shortly, and now my Miata has a nice sibling to share the garage with.
Internet buying is a great convenience, but it pays to go in and negotiate face-to-face!
It might also be beneficial to buy now, before non-enthusiasts realize the value of the 3 and start flooding the lots. Dealerships are evidently selling this close to invoice now because it is too early to tell what the market will bear. Perhaps it will end up selling at MSRP soon, like the New Beetle and did during its launch.
USA demand may go up or it may not by then. Why not try to make a deal now, and if it's not (in your opinion) good enough, you then have the luxury of waiting to try again later?
Deals in this country seem very reasonable, i.e., within $700 of invoice.
of course, if you're waiting for rebates or something, that's a variable that's difficult to predict. I woudn't expect any, if ever, until fall.
I was wondering if anyony was lucky enough to get a Mazda 3 hatchback somewhere below invoice price in the Philadelphia area. If you did, can you please tell me where in the philadelphia area. thank you.
Now ask him what the heck is a government fee. You are already paying taxes. Maybe the government fee is something required in PA, but insist on finding out.
The extra state fees were all on the up and up: tax, registration, tire disposal (NYS rules).
Tax alone was $1,734 and the rest looked legit to me.
Turn down the etch fee; it's not required and you don't want it. All the other fees are legit.
Don't believe anyone's tales about a rebate next fall. Even the Mazda executives don't plan rebates that far ahead. If 2004 sales are brisk, expect no rebates at all next year. In general, it appears you're getting an honest deal.
Did you get any extra's thrown into the price? As for me got the Rust/Undercoat/Fabric protection, car mats and a couple other small accessories.
I tried to get them to wave the Admin fee, but they wouldn't move on that. Still got the Xbox even thou I didn't go with their financing!
Congrats again, you'll love the car!
P.S The Goodyear tires are terrible on fresh snow drive carefully!
and how much the dealers profit if they sell it at s-plan? this would be of help to further negotiate the price.
thanks
Bringing up the S-Plan will get you nowhere if you don't qualify for it and are trying to negotiate a lower price.
That seems to be about average from what I hear. I have a strong feeling the price of these cars will rise in the near future. Maybe $1,000. Just a hunch.
This is one reason why I got the car in its 1st year...figuring any deal I could broker on a 2005 Mazda3 would be offset by the increase in price.
And Mazda can afford to increase prices here because they have no major Japanese competitors coming out with new models next year. Honda Civic won't change until model year 2006 (so late fall 2005), and Toyota Corolla not until mid 2007.
It just so happens that my current car has a Blue Book "fair" value of $3,500, so if this dealers offer is legit, they would in fact be discounting $3,500 off the MSRP of my chosen car, an M3 (assuming the exact color, style I want is on their showroom floor... HA!). Unless Mazda is offering some kind of hidden dealer incentives, $3,500 off MSRP seems like the dealer might loose money on this deal.
I have not visited the dealer yet, but I assume that the "catch" is in the phrase "showroom floor". They probably have some heavily customized Mazda's in the showroom with dealer add-ons that more than make up for the trade in difference.
I was wondering if anyone here has ever encountered a situation like this with a dealer, and if so, how you handled it.
For some reason this reminds me of a pigeon drop. I guess it's because the dealer is going to use the buyer's own desire to get something for nothing to take advantage of them.
They weren't interested in offering me anything reasonable for my current car (a 1996 Saturn which seems to wholesale for something over $2000, but which they wouldn't give me more than $1000 for) so I'll be selling that separately. But all in all, I think I got a good deal...
-- Harry
I ended up with a Winning Blue S instead because the closest black one was in western NY and I didn't want a "new" car with several hundred miles on it. BTW, 3 months doesn't sound outrageous -- I was told at least 8 weeks if I had ordered.
Jim
PS: I don't know where "near Boston" you are, but if you aren't too far from NH, you might want to drive up to (or at least call) Talarico -- they just got in a whole bunch of 3 sedans and hatchbacks on Wednesday.
Unless they are going to flatbed the car for you, you're better off waiting - besides - who wants a car that has been test driven - I want mine right off the boat - not beaten up by test drivers.