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The Pearl color is sort of an off-white color, whereas the Taffeta White is a blinding bright white. There's isn't much of a differnce, you almost have to see them side-by-side to tell.
Term: 42 months
MSRP: $37,470.00 ( this includes a roof rack)
CAP Cost: $33,300.00
Money Due At Signing: $572.00
Money Factor :.00230
Total Monthly: $447.00
I would like not to take delivery until mid august, as my current lease is not up until October. I asked the dealer if we could agree on this price and then not finalize until August. The dealer says that I will need to do this deal by the end of this month (July). If I wait until Next month I run the risk of rates changing and residuals changing. Is this B.S. Or is this truly the case.
Thanks for your help. By the way, is it a fun car to drive and is it significantly slower than the FX?
I saw no point in paying more for electronics such as multi CD, wireless phone and navi. I can get better electronics elsewhere for cheaper and get them installed (as I did with my earlier cars).
Thanks all posters for the info. Long live the internet!
$38600 (includes destination) plus tax and DMV fees.
Considering an invoice price of $40180 and side steps being worth at least $500 installed, my price was more than $2000 below invoice.
Acura of Pleasanton, CA was able to do this when the others dealers in the Bay Area that I contacted wanted about $500 more. The $1500 factory to dealer incentive last until 9/6/05, so this type of pricing should be available for a while longer.
The dealer is offering me an extended warranty upto 6 years/72K miles for $995. Is that a good deal? I'd like to find out what others have paid for extended warranties from Acura..
Thanks
To answer your question regarding other cars I looked at -- I considered many others w/3rd rows but I seriously considered the Volvo XC90. I know that this forum is for buying experiences and prices paid so I will limit my discussion to these topics. I had to weigh the features offered with the price of both vehicles. In the end, I decided that for the price, I got the best car for the money in the MDX. Already I am enjoying the navigation system and my children loved the DVD player on our trip. We also liked the XM radio and knowing that we had Onstar on our trip. I would have had to pay a lot more for these features on the XC90 (and I don’t think it comes w/Onstar). So, in terms of “value”, I feel that I got the best value in my purchase of the MDX.
You might want to check out some of the other MDX forums here on Edmunds as they are discussing some of your questions.
Good luck with making your decision!
Where did you get the great deal? I am looking for the same. Could you please let me know of city and delaer name. Thanks!
Vehicle cost $39000
Money factor .00188
$1000 down
36 month / 15k miles
They acted like I peed in their pool? Was my offer way out of line? I know that they have $1500 mftr support and they make a little more on the leases so I think that it was a fair offer. Please let me know if I am wrong. Thanks for any and all responses!
2005 Touring with Nav (Black w/Ebony)
1) Destination Fee
2) Cargo Cover, Net, Tray
3) All Season Floor Matt
4) Wheel Locks
5) Running Board
Price = $37,711
OTD = $41,188
Does anyone know if I can do better than this considering this is for Southern California?
I am planing to buy the MDX and feel tired of dealing with the dealer. I was wondering how did you do this from carsdirect.com? can you explain a little bit in detail of your precedures.
Thanks.
Charles
Anybody knows dealers in Buffalo, NY area or a couple of hundred miles around who provide good prices such as $1,,500 below inovice?
Thanks again.
Charles
I talked to Niello Acura (Sacramento) on email for a week through the friendly Internet Managers, and worked out a solid deal with them.
The arrangement was:
2005 Steel blue/Ebony w/Navi and DVD (model designation 189)
w/ Wheel locks and Cargo tray for $38482, including destination.
When I went to pick it up yesterday morning, at a predetermined appointment, They said they sold it 12 hours earlier. Apparently, California has a law that until a contract has been signed, the dealer must be able to offer any car on the lot to any customer....ie no saving cars.
This was very dissappointing, but the internet salesman was great. After he didnt have that car combination, he told me not to buy a car or color I didnt like. He checked the inventory of 10 other dealers, and gave me the Acura of Pleasanton phone number. As we were outside making the phone call in the 100 degree weather, he brought us water, and then walked away to give us space. And then wished us luck, and offered his help if we needed anything else.
Acura of Pleasanton agreed to match the price. Pretty easy transaction there too. No problems, and same day delivery.
Acura financing is bad right now (5.8%), but if the dealer works with the same bank as yours, you can get a better rate (4.75%)
So, I highly recommend Niello Acura if they have what you need. Acura of Pleasanton was okay to work with as well.
Again, dealers have conflicting predictions. Niello says that probable redesign for 2006 (not released until December) with similar sticker pricing. Pleasanton says minor upgrades (ie dualzone temperature control, etc.) in 2006, redesign in 2007.
While probably not the lowest price I could have got in Dallas or Houston, it was close enough to make it worthwhile, given that McDavid is < 5miles from my house, and it saved me a 3-4 hour drive each way.
Other factors: they would not deal on accessories, so I paid $ 898 for chrome sidesteps and a moonroof visor. Finally, the car on the lot in my preferred color had a "protection package" consisting of wheel locks, cargo tray, and all season mats for $297. They were adamant they couldn't back out this "package" even though other than the wheel locks, these aren't really installed items. This annoyed me, because I was lukewarm on the cargo tray, but decided not to fight to have it taken out. So all in all, I paid $1195 for the accessories, and could probably have saved another $200-300 at a DFW dealer.
Finally, I would say the overall experience was very good, a notch below excellent. There was a phase early on where one of the internet mgrs wanted me to come in before they would talk price. When I complained about this tactic and sent them a detailed offer that they needed to match to get my business, they were quick to work with me thru email after that. They did try to sell me a bunch of extended warranties, prepaid service package, etc at the time of delivery, but again backed off quickly when I said I wasn't interested.
I hope we see more Austin dealers being more accommodating on price. I've never understood this phenomenon - are Austinites really willing to pay these outrageous prices? My last 2 cars have been bought from out-of-town dealers, which is why this was a nice surprise.
Dealer told me that '06 model will only have small cosmetic changes -- I can't imagine we would be in the dark on a redesign at this point.
Thanks!
2005 MDX with
Nav/DVD package #189
Rear Spoiler
Mats
Wheel Locks
maybe upgraded Rims. Anyone with experience upgrading rims on this vehicle?
Thanks.
The final sale price with accessories was $39025, and final out-the-door price was $41,728.95.
congrats on your new MDX. in case you don;'t know acuramdx.org is a great forum for owners and wanna-bes. i'm not surprised mcdavid decided to deal. I think they figured out that certain buyers are doing their homework and rather lose yet another customer to a larger market area...when I first approached them, they weren't even close with the selling price or my trade in, about four thousand dollars apart. funny how the market dynamics play out in just a few months. what color combo did you get?
btw if you want to sell your cargo tray I'd be interested in buying if the price is right.
Thanks for your help!
Thanks for the interest, but I think I'm going to keep the cargo tray. My only gripe with it was storing it when I was using the 3rd row.
Seems like if I could do better it would be a marginal difference.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Based on the suggestion from this furum. I searched the lowest price possible a few hundred miles around Buffalo, NY and get 05 premium model/Silver with black interior as follow. The car is coming in Aug. and the dealer asked me to put $500 deposite. -- Is it OK for me to put the deposite? What should I do to make sure there will be no unseen things happen?
$32,400 (destintation included)
$253 for rack (?)
$243 for protection package (floor mat., etc)
$150 processing fee
total: $33,050
Charles
Charles
Is this the price for a base model assuming $1500 below invoice?
33,242 -1500 + 570 = 32312
Thanks,
Jane
in many of the deals I've seen, the customer did not pay destination charge. in my case, I didn;t have to pay it but then I only got $1000 of the rebate off the invoice. depends what kind of deal you can work out. good luck.
EVERYONE pays for destination no matter what...in the end...it is all the numbers game....
33,242 + 570 destination = 33812
You can get the best deal of:
33812 - 1500 = 32312.
I live in Buffalo, NY and very difficult to cut the price. Talked to them and asked if they provide price close to 33400 (600 over invoice). The answer is -"you are stealing money from us" - very bad experience. So I decide to go other place - a few hours driving. Talk to the people and they are very nice (they even immediately give the price of the added roof racks and protection package around 250 each). Only a few min. on the phone and got the deal.
Charles.