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I have gotten couple of quotes from dealers about a
2009 mdx + tech package - 38K, which will make it around 42k on the road.
I am strongly considering a 2007 CPO also , for some reason all the acura dealers do not have a lot of 2007 MDx'es available , one dealer gave me a quote for 32K for a 2007 + tech package.
I think the CPO is way over-priced since the brand new one itself is just a few grand more.
did any one buy a 2007 MDX with sport package recently? , if so please let me know price paid
(1) Went to BMW Dealer and test drove an 08 X5 4.8i with NAV. Interior color was tan and not our 1st choice. Dealer shot us a price of $2520 under MSRP and basically wouldn't budge unless we wanted to enter the haggling process. We told him we're in no rush, thanked him for his time and left. (Sales person gave us a buy-one, get-one free entree dinner at a chophouse. We had king crab legs that were spectacular!)
(2) On the way home, the Sales person e-mailed me dropping the price another $2520 and asked me to contact him.
(3) Before we got home, the Sales person left a phone message on our answering machine saying he would drop the price to Invoice.
(4) The next day, I found a comparable BMW at another Dealer in same region so I called them and almost made an appt to go see the other vehicle. Interior color was not our 1st choice but was close. I told the Internet Sales person about the deal the 1st dealer offered and that person wanted paper proof before working any numbers. Needless to say, the Invoice offer was on the answering machine so there was no proof so I sent the 1st dealer an e-mail and asked for confirmation that I had the correct understanding. I also mentioned that I was working with another dealer.
(5) The same day, I went to the Acura dealer down the road from my office. I met with a fabulous Sales person and took test drives in 2 vehicles. I left with some basic numbers of this dealer's 1st offer.
(6) That evening, I wrote back to both BMW dealers indicating that I was working with a competing dealer for another make and asked them if they would go below invoice.
(7) The following day, the 1st dealer dropped the X5 to $500 under Invoice and asked when can we sign. The 2nd dealer wasn't willing to do business via Internet and still wanted paper evidence. I received both e-mails while sitting at the Acura dealer and showed the Sales person what they're willing to do on the X5. The Sales person came back with $700 under invoice. Now we're talking!
(8) I asked if they would sell accessories to me at Dealer Cost (wood grain steering wheel and gear shift knob), cargo cover, all weather floor mats (rubber / slush type), protection package (cargo tray, mud flaps, locking lug nuts) and sport running boards and I offered to pay the labor on installation for the wood grain steering wheel and gear shift knob. The dealer agreed.
(9) Upon finishing the work day, I called the dealer back and asked for the $0 deductible extended warranty at dealer cost. I asked for the best one they had. The dealer e-mailed me back indicating that the Finance Department could discount the warranty but not provide it at cost.
(10) I called the dealer and said that my husband and I are seriously thinking of the purchase and that if they could drop the extended warranty to dealer cost, it's a make or break deal.
(11) The dealer agreed. The cost on the extended warranty is $2440.
Final Price:
$41873 ($700 below Invoice) for 08 MDX with Tech & Entertainment Pkg
$697.73 for wood grained wheel (installed)
$147 for wood grained gear shift knob (installed)
$698.25 for sport running boards (installed)
$152 for cargo cover
$2440 for 8 year / 120,000 $0 deductible warranty
$46145.98 @ 3.9% for 60m and $0 down --> $882.64 / month
I've found that if you work patiently, that if you're friendly, easy going and courteous, you can enjoy your shopping experience and hold on to more of your hard earned money than you think. I probably could have pushed to figures lower than $700 under invoice but I also respect that dealers have to make money to stay in business. The fact is, they had a dozen or so 2008 model MDX's they had to sell because they already have 2009's on the lot. They need to get rid of them so as the next month or two progress, deals will probably get better than this one.
Ours is coming from out of state and will be driven to the dealer. It's Black with Taupe interior. We put down a $500 deposit since there's a $300 transport fee. If there is something terribly wrong with the vehicle and we're dissatisfied when we see it, the money is refundable.
Good luck!
Incidentally, if you're willing to take one that they already have in stock, they'd probably be willing to dip into their holdback and give you another $500-$750 off.
I'm apparently not supposed to post the name of salespeople on this site. But as I mentioned, I got mine at Acura 101 West in Calabasas. Contact their internet sales team. I don't know if they had white/beige, but they supposedly have the largest inventory in SoCal (hence the great pricing). I believe white/beige is hard to find (we got blue/beige, which is also very tough), so I wouldn't wait until Labor Day. I seriously doubt the deal is going to get any better -- it will probably just be better advertised then, but with fewer to choose from.
If they have a lot of inventory, you might be able to push them $500-$1k lower and/or get some accessories at dealer cost -- especially if they don't have the PTG -- but those sound like pretty good offers.
That seems a bit high for SoCal (where inventory is HUGE). I just leased mine 2 weeks ago, and I'm paying slightly less than that ($571/mo incl. tax) for the exact same vehicle with $0 drive-off. Now, granted, we went w/ a 3yr/10k lease (my wife has a 4 mi RT commute), but I don't think the difference in residual would amount to $2k. For example, if it's a 1% residual difference, that would be less then $500 (~$12/mo). Even at a 2% differential (the max, I would think) it would only be around a $900 difference over 3 years (roughly a $25/mo difference).
The best offer I got was $488/mo (incl. tax) for $2998 drive-off. I took that offer, but financed the $2998 to make it a $0 drive-off. With 15k you can probably get out the door for about $500-$515/mo with no drive-off. If you want to stick with the $1999 driveoff, I'd probably shoot for $525-$540/mo. depending on what they tell you the residual rate difference is between a 10k lease and a 15k lease.
We certainly didn't use our PTG very often, but for those few times when we had our hands full, it was nice to just press a button without having to set everything down again.
While I understand this feature may not be for you, I certainly wouldn't call it completely useless.
Now the heated seats in my Infiniti are what I would call completely useless...they don't start heating up until the car has warmed up...which at that point, who cares?
Were you kidding? Hard to tell. Anyway, I'm currently in the market for a CUV and can afford either the luxury or non-luxury lines. And I have to say the Mazda CX-9 is still in contention for me, even after test driving both it and the Acura. Have you actually driven one? Car and Driver and Motor Trend did among others and all gave it awards. Honestly, if it were just about drive, features and styling I'd probably get the Mazda right now. I just can't get over their really poor radio/nav/car tech integration (no trip computer at all) and the consistent reports about Mazda dealership service centers handling the vehicles poorly. But to say its not in the same league is laughable.
Tech+Entn (with PTG and wheel locks) inclusive of fees and taxes: $40,000
Still negotiating the Extended Warranty.
i agree with soccerandlost's opinion. I bought 1 from the same place 2 weeks ago. They dont have any white/beige with sport/ent pkgs. Which email address do you want the contact details at? I can fwd them to you. They are very easy going and good people to deal with.
Best of luck.
Tech+Entn (with PTG and wheel locks) inclusive of fees and taxes: $40,000
Still negotiating the Extended Warranty.
Jessie12,
Is this including special finance or cash price?
It's a lot like the seat air-conditioners in my Infiniti: a feature I never would have cared about when I first shopped, but which has become nearly indispensable ever since. And for what it's worth, the seat heaters in my Infiniti are great as well.
$36,501 (this is the rate with financing at 0.9%)
$399 processing fee
$850 accessories (roof rails and rack, side molding, cargo tray, and wheel locks)$895 tire/wheel protection for 5 years
Tags, taxes, and registration
Total OTD price $38,246 with 0.9% financing - if I had not financed the vehicle, it would have been $1,000 cheaper.
We also plan to get an extended warranty, but we don't need to do that right away (need to do it before we hit $6,000 miles or 1 year). We brought in the Bernardi figures and our dealership (who was way off on the numbers) immediately said that they could match the numbers - this is a huge tip for anyone looking to purchase an extended warranty through AcuraCare - bring in this chart and you likely will get better numbers! Of course you can purchase the extended warranty through any Acura dealer - you don't need to purchase it through the dealer where you bought the car.
http://www.bernardiwarranty.com/Departments/Acura/MDX/New-MDX-Personal.aspx
Happy shopping everyone!
$37,000 (2.9% fiancing for 60 months) plus tax.
DMV fees may be $50.
Most dealers still offer the same vechicle over $38,000.
Keyes Acura refuse to make an offer over the phone/email.
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what was MSRP on this MDX prior to your negotiations??
MSRP was $41K.
The best cash offer I am seeing in the bay area on the Tech + Entn ( PTG) is 38,188.00 + fees equals $41,756.05 out the door...Any comments?
Thanks
2008 MDX with Tech and PTG (Gray/Taupe)
MSRP: 44,960
Purchase price: 37,211
Dealer fee: 385
Gross capitalized cost (includes DC taxes, etc): 38,490
Money down: 2,500 (1924 cap reduction + 576 first month)
36 month lease, 12k/year, 53% residual
Monthly: 575.21
I also got ~$300 worth of accessories at cost plus two years of free oil changes.
I may have left a few dollars on the table, but feel the process was overall pretty fair and I'm pleased with the deal. It was Radley Acura and I can share the name of the salesperson if anyone is interested.
I am a little confused about your last statement.
With 15k you can probably get out the door for about $500-$515/mo with no drive-off. If you want to stick with the $1999 driveoff, I'd probably shoot for $525-$540/mo. depending on what they tell you the residual rate difference is between a 10k lease and a 15k lease.
Do you mean for 15k, I can expect about $525 - $540 with no driveoff and $500 to $515 with about $2,000 driveoff? Just making sure I understand and I think you may have switched the numbers. Thanks again.
I'm assuming you love your vehicle!!
I won't go into explaining the differences I drew for myself while extensively test-driving both - only I'd say both CX-9 and MDX were the final contenders in race for my ownership and Mazda won due to the sum of features not, any specific one, although Acura was very close one.
If you are mostly after a sport car handling, MDX wins hands down, no questions asked. I loved that sporty feeling especially when throwing the X into the tight corners or accelerating. The CX-9 was surpisingly close despite it's size and weight. However the CX-9 had a much cushier ride while still retaining the sport/SUV car feeling and responsivness.
Inside the CX-9 is much roomier. The third row is larger and easier to access. The X has a very nice interior that immediately scream "Luxury" with wrap-around dash. CX-9 enjoys a different approach to an interior being more "americanized", flat with all controls positioned very logically. If you are getting their top of the line GT trim, you will be suprpised how nicely it was equipped inside - it does not feel inferior to the X at all, only different. On the top of that, we were looking for the dark interor (due to our 2 boys magic ability to turn any light interior into the dark one anyway). I really liked the MDX parchment or sand interior while their ebony was looking unimpressive to me. The CX-9 however has these really nice grey accents in their seats. Additionally, their faux wood trim also add the elegance.
The only gripe I had with Mazdas is their subpar NAV and questionnalble Sirius/MP3 player integration. I ended up forgoing the NAV option with Mazda and I was not looking for this in MDX either so here it was a wash to me.
And finally, the important part is WAF (wife's acceptance factor). Hands down the looks of CX-9 (check out that Liquid Platinum Metallic) won her out and I couldn't disagree.
Again, I am in no way ashamed and in fact very happy with my choice. When it's time to replace my wife's car - I may give Acura another look this time at RDX.
If Mazda hadn't screwed up the cabin tech, I would buy a CX-9 over the current MDX even if they were priced exactly the same. As it is, they are similarly discounted. You can easily get one right now more than $10K under MSRP, making it still much cheaper than the MDX comparably equipped.
Took 60 months loan with 2.99 APR. Wheel locks, all season floor mats and cargo tray free worth of about $250
Though not the best deal but finished the whole process in about 2 hours. This is in Houston and dealer is John Eagle Acura
Thanks,
Brian
You're right -- I screwed up the numbers. Unfortunately I'm not sure that transposing them makes it right, either. If I have the chance later, I'll try to rerun them.
And yes, we love it. Wish the nav was as user friendly as our other car (an Infiniti) and that it had a true Ipod dock, but it's still great nevertheless.
To sum up my deal for anyone interested in buying here it is.
2008 MDX Sport with PTG (Sport includes the tech package plus performance suspension and 5 spoke wheels - which I really liked better than the tech wheels)
PTG = power tail gate (Trust me...this really is a cool option to have)
Side molding, floor mats, and cargo tray included.
NO roof rack or running boards (I will add later as I really like the looks)
$39,640 + tax/tag/?
$42,912 total out the door price
$2,440 for the extended 7 year/100k mile warranty
$2,400 for trade in (2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee)
2.9% financing for 60 months
$0 money down - All we did was give them our trade in and sign
$760 a month for 60 months (They pushed for higher months but I refused)
Has anyone done a better deal or is this at least something to be proud of?
Would appreciate your experience.
$32, 850 Vehicle including destination (MSRP $40, 900 invoice $37,274)
$638 Roof rail + body side molding (my choice)
$55 Doc fee
$2767.30 CA Tax
$301 (DMV and other gov fees)
$36,612.05 Grand total cash price.
Another local dealer actually offered $200 less on a similar MDX via email, phone, and in person, but I wanted to do business where I test drove the car and let the sale consultant see the result of his effort (a gent in his 70's).
This might not be the lowest price around here, but it only took me 24 hours from test drive, to soliciting quotes from other dealers via email, to bringing the car home.
The Base model only lacks the Navi and Power Tail Gate, otherwise it is identical to the Tech package. To me, the Base is the best value for money.
Anyone have a good experience/deal in the NYC area/LI when purchasing a standard 08 MDX?
thanks